Pink Cocaine, it isn’t
When I've seen people attempt to explain their motives, they usually blame it on the trust they had in their source -- whoever gave or sold it to them at the time. That trust was misplaced, they complain.
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Flooded with Fakes
The DEA has committed to a public information campaign around the theme of “one pill can kill”. Although that’s technically true, I don’t know how much impact it will have on the target audience.
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Psychedelics on the Hype Express
All that free positive publicity has surely been a great help to the emerging psychedelic industry and the elements in the financial community who are rushing to exploit it.
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Physician or Vending Machine?
…some patients feel ‘gypped’ if they don’t leave the office with a prescription. And respond with a bad review on the patient satisfaction survey.
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A Bewildering Mix
As many as fifty of these NPS designer drugs have been found to date. That sounds like a lot until we realize the potential for hundreds more to appear in future.
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A Weird Tale of Politics & Pot
A DC lobbyist…filed a suit claiming that John Boehner and an associated law firm had stolen his idea, and the plans for implementing it, without giving him credit (or paying him)
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Walgreens Rides Alone
One thing that emerged is that Walgreen’s own pharmacists had made repeated attempts to convince corporate leadership to establish a central database of suspicious purchases, and the customers who made them.
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Legal Drug Blues
More impressive results have come from simply increasing taxes on alcoholic beverages. States that have done so have been rewarded, mostly through reductions in the consequences of excessive drinking.
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A Consultant’s Story
whatever McKinsey was charging for its services, their clients couldn’t have done what they did without McKinsey’s help. Sure, that led to a drug epidemic such as America has never seen, costing some half a million lives to date.
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A Last Link in the Chain
…there were some real doozies, scripts written for amounts way beyond any conceivable patient need.
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Toke-lahoma & The Wilds of NYC
The Gold Rush atmosphere is because everyone is expecting the arrival of bigger, better-funded, publicly-traded cannabis companies, accompanied by their networks of retail stores.
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The Meth Mess – Oman coming
…one past error has been to overemphasize the more glamorous supply side interventions – interdiction and law enforcement – while paying much less attention to the demand side of the bargain.
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The FDA Looks at D8
By the time the authorities get around to questioning it, you’ll have collected more than enough revenue to pay your legal fees.
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