Public Health

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

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

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.

…we’re often well behind the curve in terms of what’s actually happening in colleges and bars and on the streets around America.

It’s Business 101, for illegal as well as legal enterprises.

We already know there’s a strong business link between vaping and Big Tobacco.

It can be flagrant or subtle, but damage it will be. Sadly, the drinker is usually the last one to become aware of it. In fact, many never do.

Cannabis doesn’t replace opioids the way methadone or buprenorphine do. There’s no antagonist effect as with naloxone or naltrexone.

The list of deaths from the practice is long and oddly prestigious, featuring celebs such as John Belushi and Chris Farley, among many others.