Showing posts with label addiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label addiction. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Nicotine underlip: Zyn, snu to manage (and start) nicotine addiction

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Move over vapes: more ways to access nicotine without starting a fire: (I understand these are quite popular among our MBA students...)   Th...
Sunday, February 9, 2025

Super bowl markets in ads and gambling (and also a football game)

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 Today is a big celebration of advertising.  But the advertisements have to be fitted into pauses in a football game.  That takes some doing...
Friday, January 17, 2025

FDA Proposes Reducing Nicotine to Nonaddictive Level in Cigarettes: I see 5 possible futures

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 Here's the FDA press release: FDA Proposes Significant Step Toward Reducing Nicotine to Minimally or Nonaddictive Level in Cigarettes a...
Friday, December 27, 2024

Sports gambling presents problems for gamblers, athletes, and sports

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  Sports betting has some potentially dire implications both for betters and for athletes and sports. Gamblers can find in-app gambling whil...
Sunday, December 22, 2024

Regulating nicotine is a cat and mouse game

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 Attempts to regulate (and tax) cigarettes and related nicotine-addicting products are a cat and mouse game. Many laws regulate "tobacc...
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...