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In a way, drug trial catastrophes are like airline disasters, in that the aura of secrecy extends well beyond the incident itself.

Clinicians… feel as if they’re always missing at least one extremely important tool that would make all the difference.

Hard to imagine anything more disturbing to most people than finding an overdose victim on the floor of the ladies’ room at the local McDonald’s.

Rehab isn’t intended to effect a cure for someone’s addiction. We don’t have a cure for anybody’s addiction.

We should remember the proposal isn’t actually about a way to get addicts off drugs; it’s a way to facilitate use.

Reliable stats on relapse can be hard to come by, but return-to-heroin rates appear to run above 80% (and in some cases, higher).

As far as polls and election results: Those aren’t very good ways to determine whether something is safe.

Unfortunately, relatively few ODs occurred in the doctor’s office or the pharmacy waiting area.

Why is it that we keep trying to treat drug addiction with still more drugs?

It appears that extended prison terms aren’t much good at changing offender behavior after release.