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Prohibition led to a sharp decrease in the number of Americans consuming and becoming addicted to alcohol. Rates of public drunkenness and alcohol-related liver disease decreased by half during this period in the absence of new remedies to treat addiction.
Anna Lembke • Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
cognitive liberty
Mary Martin • 1 card
caitlin mclean
@cwave
Could this approach to public health have something to do with the fact that the incarceration rate in Norway is 71/100,000, in the Netherlands 81/100,000, and the US 781/100,000, while the crime rate in those countries is much lower than in ours, and the cost of medical care about half? Seventy percent of prisoners in California spent time in
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Amy Mack
@amymack
In a culture that projects its darkest features onto the addict and makes addicted people into scapegoats for its shortcomings, insight and knowledge are almost entirely absent from public discourse concerning drug policies. Moralizing displaces compassion and prejudice substitutes for inquiry.
Gabor Maté • In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
Epstein
Waverly • 1 card
Character: Show that the witness has been dishonest in other statements or actions, or has criminal convictions suggesting dishonesty.