Thinking About Addiction

Ethics never comes up. The job is to push product, and once sold, “we wash our hands of the whole thing.”

There’s  a lot of laughter  in the recovery world, mostly at oneself. Believe me, it helps.

Advertising is vulnerable to abuse. Rules are few and easy to circumvent.

Corporations will fight dirty if necessary to protect their investment. That includes in the political arena.

Voter perception and the fear of a public relations black eye is always a motivating factor in politics.

Don’t chains have quality control mechanisms to alert headquarters to abnormal patterns in prescription use?

What we really need most are substantive changes on the demand side.

Even if it turns out to be ineffective for patients, buying cannabis products certainly gives a boost to the sales figures.

Legalization solves problems related to the legal status of a drug, but has far less impact on the problems related to the nature of the substance itself.

JUUL’s parent company has replaced the JUUL CEO with somebody from the tobacco industry.