Topic: prevention

So, public health advocates maintain, the McConnell plan is really just a clever ruse to reduce support for other legislation that might actually reduce smoking and vaping.

We will have to deal with electronic smoking, which has exploded among young people even as cigarette use has declined.

As the article points out, it’s possible to make use of the flashlight on your cellphone for the necessary illumination.

…as one judge told me at a conference: “no matter how many jails you build, judges will fill them. It’s the easiest way to make this someone else’s problem, instead of ours.”

That industry will do everything in its power to create and sustain the biggest possible population of chronic stoners.

Chimayo and surrounding Rio Arriba County have long struggled with heroin overdose rates that exceed ten times the national average.

Imagine a student sitting in the school auditorium listening to a teacher or police officer insist that marijuana makes you less intelligent. Meanwhile, he knows that the kid in front of him, an honor student, smokes pot every weekend.

This is the first data-driven study which shows that teacher support is associated with lower levels of early alcohol use.