Obama Drug Czar Pick: No Recovery from War on Drugs?
Obama shouldn't make the mistake that Bill Clinton did and install a drug czar who will ignore science and push dogma.
Obama shouldn't make the mistake that Bill Clinton did and install a drug czar who will ignore science and push dogma.
Tony Newman | Posted 10.20.2008 | Living
Let's help drug addicts where they're at and not let perfection be the enemy of good. Let's make sure that we offer compassion and empowerment, not judgment and a jail cell.
Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 09.25.2008 | Living
A lot of us have been living as if we need everything we want; as if we don't have to refill the coffers, emotional, physical and financial, that are meant to sustain us.
Kimberly Brooks | Posted 09.06.2008 | Living
This week is the 40th Anniversary of Tom Wolfe's famous "Electric Kook-Aid Acid Test" and I thought it would be high time we take a small moment to re...
Anthony Papa | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics
Hamilton was finally able to kick his addiction and return to baseball. He was fortunate that his addiction was not handled as a criminal manner, sending a powerful message to society.
Harold Pollack | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
If she lets her husband campaign in the family airplane or has complicated financial and personal dealings, I think that's fair game. As for her drug problem, I have great wariness.
Stephen Elliott | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
In the mid-nineties, Cindy was addicted to prescription pain killers. Worse, she was stealing the drugs from the American Voluntary Medical Team, a third world relief organization she founded.
Paul Peete | Posted 06.13.2008 | Home
This is going to be a white-hot, bitterly contested election cycle, and even though the McCain campaign has forsworn dirty tactics, the 527s and right wing blogs and rumor mills will rush to attack Michelle Obama. But a word of caution is warranted: "Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."
Victor Capoccia | Posted 03.13.2008 | Living
What would Congress say of a disease for which four out of five people who seek treatment cannot get it?
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 02.07.2008 | Living
It's conceivable that Ledger had an incompetent doctor, but the more parsimonious explanation, given his history of recreational drug use, is that he was not following doctor's orders at all.
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 12.19.2007 | Living
Failing to allow doctors to anonymously seek treatment and removing their licenses will make doctors go to greater lengths to hide their problems and avoid ever seeking treatment.
Felicia C. Sullivan | Posted 10.18.2007 | Living
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Maia Szalavitz | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics