The Biology, Morality and Politics of Addiction – Dr Gabor Maté – the Freedomain Radio Interview
The Biology, Morality and Politics of Addiction – Dr Gabor Maté – The Freedomain Radio Interview – Audio: http://www.fdrurl.com/gabe Dr Gabor Maté reveals the biological basis of addiction, and the insanity of the statist war on drugs. http://www.drgaborma…
Invisible harms
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I suspect the graph operates with normal definitions of usual terms, IE drugs meaning illegal drugs only, rather than prescription – it is a bad and misleading idea to even use the same word for those two vastly different classes of substances. You …
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To Stay Out of Jail, Must Nonviolent Offenders Submit to Medical Diagnoses?
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In fact, as some sociologists have argued, this changes the definition of what a drug problem is and who requires treatment. This suits perfectly the needs of a justice system that refuses to decriminalize drugs, but now has to put offenders somewhere …
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The 'Yadda Yadda Yadda' Doctrine: How Obama's Syria strategy is like 'Seinfeld'
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“It's wonderful for many of our allies to want us to jump in and use our resources in order to advance their own individual, self-interested agendas,” said Suzanne Maloney, another State Department alum. “It's another thing for the president to be able …
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