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Two cheers for Fair Sentencing Act: Equality for rock and powder cocaine...
The disparity between criminal sentencing for crack and powder cocaine was quite heinous; young black men carrying a rock or two got prison while young white men with a gram or two got probation. And...
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Marijuana addiction: MJ lobby vs. science
Is marijuana physically addictive or not? The MJ lobby says no. But medical science says otherwise. Who do you believe? Like almost all ballot measures and new laws, Proposition 19, California’s...
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Treating addiction as a chronic disease, or how can something that makes so...
It’s been ten years since a special communication in the Journal of the American Medical Association by four leading experts declared that drug dependence (including alcohol) should be treated as a...
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ATODblog:2010 in review
Wish I had more time to devote to this blog… Anybody else who thinks the same way I do about alcohol, tobacco and other drugs want to submit a post? Anyway, here’s the figures on readership for last...
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Substance abuse a “crisis” in military; Defense Department response is...
Substance abuse in the Armed Forces is a crisis situation that reduces military readiness. And the Defense Department’s response is inadequate and outdated. Continue reading →
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Marijuana legalization: Damn the science, full speed ahead
By Jim Gogek If tobacco was not legal, and we knew the full scientific extent of its health impacts, would we legalize it today? Not a chance. A substance that’s dangerously addictive and kills half...
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Editorial cartoonists did their duty in Australia’s tobacco war
By Jim Gogek By now, we’ve all seen the new generation of pictorial health warnings gracing tobacco packs in enlightened countries, though not yet in the United States, which is falling behind other...
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Is there “proof” that AA works? There’s certainly a ton of evidence…
Of course, people who go to AA couldn’t care less about the research; they just know what works for them. True, AA doesn’t work for everybody. But then, many treatments for other chronic diseases work...
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Top Substance Abuse Research Findings of 2012 from About.com
Buddy T., anonymous recovery writer for About.com, penned a wonderful column on the most important research about ATOD in 2012. And, leading the way are — new findings on the harms of marijuana. Our...
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If electronic cigarettes can help people quit smoking, then why is Big...
...The tobacco industry knows something that some harm reduction theorists don’t realize, and that the e-cigarette industry doesn’t care about: Electronic cigarettes can be an adjunct to smoking...
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