Undercounting– Again
And like the opioid epidemic, the virus disproportionately harmed the disadvantaged and minorities among us.
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The Return of Methamphetamine
“Heroin withdrawal is like a really awful bout of the flu,” one former patient, a screenwriter, told me. “Getting off methadone, that feels like dying.”
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Oh– as for Fentanyl…
…we’re often well behind the curve in terms of what’s actually happening in colleges and bars and on the streets around America.
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Politics and Drugs
And yet our legal system seems designed to punish the low level offender while protecting their counterparts in business and government.
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Politics and Drugs
And yet our legal system seems designed to punish the low level offender while protecting their counterparts in business and government.
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Fentanyl Goes West
It’s Business 101, for illegal as well as legal enterprises.
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Cheaters Do Get Caught…
These multi-billion dollar fines sound enormous, but like the one levied on Facebook, they represent a small portion of the company’s actual assets.
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Stimulants Today
The list of deaths from the practice is long and oddly prestigious, featuring celebs such as John Belushi and Chris Farley, among many others.
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Ending an Epidemic?
It’s as if we can’t conceive of life without drowning ourselves in abusable substances.
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The Miracle Herb
We focus on the drug, as if someone who uses heroin, for instance, can’t also have a problem with alcohol, or sleeping pills, or methamphetamine, or this new, more potent form of marijuana that’s showing up everywhere.
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Vaping Goes Pro
It’s still just nicotine, after all, even if someone doctored it to smell like creme brulee.
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Proactive is the Key
Not Latin American cartels or Afghan warlords, but advocates for opioid treatment of chronic pain, and pharmaceutical firms with a substantial financial interest in selling opioids.
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The Wave Phenomenon
Still, if the epidemic is already 28 years old, then how much more effective would these steps have been if they had been initiated way back when?
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