by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Oct 4, 2016 | Drug Policy
EDITOR’S NOTE: This post is a follow-up to The Drug War Claims Another Victim America’s prohibition regime of certain sorts of drugs has never been called for by a medical consensus. It has never been based on application of the principles of addiction...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Aug 27, 2016 | Culture, Drug Policy, Opinion
PART I: The People’s Juice That an individual will cheat for glory tells us nothing new or interesting about the human condition. Aristotle, The Bible, and Shakespeare told us all about it before there was a “Western World” to have a conversation...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 24, 2016 | Drug Policy
Recent news concerning the overdose death of Prince points at the possibility that the pain pills he was taking were counterfeit. It seems that Prince thought he was taking Vicodin (or the generic equivalent), but the pills were actually Fentanyl. The linked article...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Aug 20, 2016 | Drug Policy
Editor’s Note: This is the third in an on-going series of articles on the realities of the War on Drugs as seen by a New York City paramedic. Previous articles are here and here, and I highly recommend anyone who wants to understand the human toll this...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Aug 10, 2016 | Drug Policy
Governor Cuomo has signed a bill into law allowing the drug Narcan to be available over the counter at participating drugstores. Narcan blocks opium, morphine and its derivatives at the cellular level. This law is certainly better than nothing, and no doubt it will...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 9, 2016 | Drug Policy, Politics
Way, way back, when I was a young lad still finding my political eyes, I took a political quiz that asked me to rate the degree with which I agreed with certain statements. One of them was, in essence “The law is the law.” I recall finding the statement a...
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