Public Policy

When it comes to drug epidemics, sealing the borders is a limited strategy at best.

A street dealer explained it: “That’s the dope business, man. You got to protect your corner.”

For most Americans, addiction remains a defect of character or self-discipline.

Many physicians don’t want to offer opioid maintenance. They’re happy to refer out, to an addictionologist or psychiatrist with training.

The public needs to trust the people and institutions that provide the care they depend on when they (or someone they love) is sick.

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

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.

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

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

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