Public Policy

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

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

And yet our legal system seems designed to punish the low level offender while protecting their counterparts in business and government.

As domestic sales decline, Big Pharma looks around for other markets

That we have such a large and growing community of frequent users is a tribute not to evidence, but to hype.

…the problems we decide not to deal with at present go on to undermine treatment for the rest.

Picture a horde of lemmings suddenly deciding to change direction and stampede off a different cliff.

I’d argue that America has never adequately addressed its own problems with addiction, which have been with us in one form or another since before we became a nation.

Alcohol still gets credit for close to 90,000 deaths every year– more than other drugs, even in the middle of an epidemic.

It’s a real challenge for the folks on the ground to fit their reality into the prescribed format of a Federal grant.