Showing posts with label addiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label addiction. Show all posts
Sunday, October 27, 2024

Gambling as a public health issue (Lancet)

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  Here's a warning about gambling from the Lancet: The Lancet Public Health Commission on gambling    October 24, 2024 "Executive S...
Monday, September 2, 2024

Oregon ends decriminalization of drugs, continues to experiment

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  Here's the story in the Washington Post Hard drugs illegal again in Oregon as first-in-nation experiment ends "Sunday marks the e...
Monday, July 15, 2024

Dealing with the harms of harm reduction

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 Some of the jurisdictions that pioneered harm reduction measures to reduce drug overdose deaths are dealing with problems of public drug us...
Thursday, June 13, 2024

Do e-cigarettes lead to combustables? (Two NBER papers).

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  Two NBER working papers on flavor bans for e-cigarettes, and possible migration to combustables: The Effect of E-Cigarette Flavor Bans on ...
Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Nicotine is hard to ban: Juul wins a reprieve from the FDA, and illegal vapes flood the market

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 Here are two stories by Jennifer Maloney at the WSJ: FDA Rescinds Juul Ban, Opening Door for Federal Clearance. E-cigarette maker’s product...
Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Marijuana policy and use in the U.S., 1979-2022, by Jonathan Caulkins, in Addiction

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 Here's a paper forthcoming in the journal Addiction: Changes in self-reported cannabis use in the United States from 1979 to 2022 , by ...
Thursday, May 2, 2024

Gambling addiction

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  When gambling opportunities were rare and often illegal in the U.S., gambling addiction was a less visible problem than it is becoming tod...
Saturday, February 10, 2024

Gambling in video games--entry level gambling for minors?

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  In-game gambling for video game tools has become an unregulated form of online gambling that may provide minors with their first gambling ...
Monday, February 5, 2024

The NFL embraces sports gambling for fans but not for players

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 The Superbowl is in Las Vegas, and gambling is being embraced by the NFL for fans, but not for players and other NFL employees. The NYT has...
Thursday, December 7, 2023

Drug addiction: not just opioids

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 Consumption of addictive drugs seems to come in deadly cocktails these days, which is making interdiction of drugs, and treatment of addict...
Friday, October 13, 2023

Fentanyl

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  The NY Times has the story: Some Key Facts About Fentanyl . It’s lowering American life expectancy and influencing the nation’s politics. ...
Sunday, May 7, 2023

Supervised drug use sites to be banned in Pennsylvania

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 Statnews has the story: Pennsylvania set to ban supervised drug use sites, in setback for harm reduction   By Lev Facher "Pennsylvania...
Friday, March 31, 2023

Opioids and Appalachia by Sally Satel

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  Sally Satel , who has treated patients in Appalachia, writes movingly of the drug addiction problem there. Here's a paragraph that set...
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Canada experiments with decriminalization of opioids and other drugs in British Columbia

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 From the CBC: What you need to know about the decriminalization of possessing illicit drugs in B.C.  B.C. granted exemption by federal gove...
Friday, February 3, 2023

Selling flavored cigarettes after California's ban

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 It's hard to regulate tobacco. The NY Times brings us up to date on California's ban on flavored tobacco products. R.J. Reynolds Pi...
Friday, January 6, 2023

Nicotine will be with us for a long time--survey of middle school use

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 Sales of tobacco products to minors are generally illegal in the U.S., but a survey shows that doesn't stop children from smoking and v...
Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Suppressing vaping is hard

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  The WSJ has the story: Major effort needed to remove illegal vaping products, review finds. Group says FDA regulators are overwhelmed and ...
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Opioids and pain management: revised CDC guidelines

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 Concerned over the opioid addiction epidemic in the U.S., and the increasing number of overdose related deaths, the CDC issued the 2016 CDC...
Thursday, November 24, 2022

Lobbying for sports gambling, with cigars and whisky

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 Do addictions go together?  The NY Times has the story of how legalized (online, sports) gambling lobbyists wooed state legislators with wh...