New CDC Guidelines, & Thoughts on the Opioid Epidemic
Purdue and the others may have settled their lawsuits, but the victims, and the professionals who treat them, will be paying the price for a long time to come.
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Cannabis Coalition
Feels a bit like the city fathers of Tombstone in the midst of an outbreak of gunfighting, deciding that maybe now would be a good time to hire a couple more deputies.
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Cannabis and Corruption
States where recreational cannabis is legal– 17 of them now, I believe– still have drug-related crime. Just of a different variety.
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Corruption and Public Health
I’m always a bit skeptical about high profile political spankings. All too often, their bark turns out to be far worse than the eventual bite.
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Government and Opioids
No matter what the subject under discussion, the real business of government never changes.
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Labeling Benzos
For a long time, many medical professionals were resistant to the idea that benzos could be hazardous unless the patient took too many at once, or mixed them with alcohol.
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A Move to Regulate Vaping
These businesses, many of them small shops, may have aggressively marketed these products for commercial reward.
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What About the FDA?
…the FDA, like the CDC, is just one part of the massive Department of Health and Human Services, and therefore subject to all sorts of political influence and frankly, pressure.
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