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America Can't Rely on Others to Solve Our Drug Crisis Feb. 13, 2025
Fentanyl presents America with a terrible dilemma. More than 74,000 Americans died in 2023 after tak... Read More
You Can't Stop Fentanyl Oct. 17, 2023
Fentanyl has killed more Americans than the wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined. And line... Read More
Don't Aid and Abet Addiction in Colorado Oct. 11, 2023
Call them needle exchanges; call them safe-use sites; sugar-coat them as "overdose prevention center... Read More
Colorado's Higher Ed Joins Fight Against Fentanyl Oct. 10, 2023
Fentanyl is a scourge on society and, too often, a death sentence for those who overdose after consu... Read More
Oregon's Drug Problems Were Not Caused by Decriminalization: Prohibition Is at the Root of the Hazards That Have Led to Record Numbers of Opioid-Related Deaths Oct. 02, 2023
Three years ago, 58% of Oregon voters approved Measure 110, a groundbreaking ballot initiative that ... Read More
Oregon's Drug Problems Were Not Caused by Decriminalization: Prohibition Is at the Root of the Hazards That Have Led to Record Numbers of Opioid-Related Deaths Sep. 27, 2023
Three years ago, 58% of Oregon voters approved Measure 110, a groundbreaking ballot initiative that ... Read More
Help AG Weiser Teach Children About Death Sep. 11, 2023
Coloradans have an attorney general who fancies himself "The People's Lawyer." That requires him to ... Read More
'Safe Use' Sites? Call Them 'Suicide' Sites Sep. 04, 2023
The word from the Capitol this week is that state lawmakers might try again to legalize "safe use" s... Read More
Our Leaders Slack on Solving Poison Crisis Aug. 18, 2023
With notable exceptions, state and federal leaders treat fentanyl like an afterthought. Compare thei... Read More
Methanol-Tainted Liquor and Xylazine-Tainted Fentanyl Illustrate the Same Prohibitionist Peril: While the Lethal Effects of Iran's Booze Ban Are Widely Recognized, Politicians Ignore Similar Consequences From US Drug Laws Jul. 24, 2023
When the celebrated Iranian artist Khosrow Hassanzadeh died of methanol poisoning this month, everyo... Read More
Methanol-Tainted Liquor and Xylazine-Tainted Fentanyl Illustrate the Same Prohibitionist Peril: While the Lethal Effects of Iran's Booze Ban Are Widely Recognized, Politicians Ignore Similar Consequences From US Drug Laws Jul. 19, 2023
When the celebrated Iranian artist Khosrow Hassanzadeh died of methanol poisoning this month, everyo... Read More
Fentanyl Shows No Signs of Relenting Jul. 19, 2023
Fentanyl sounds so 2022, but don't be fooled by the relative lack of attention it receives today. Co... Read More
How Long Is Too Long to Grieve? Jun. 28, 2023
Dear Annie: I have had a friend for many years, a person who got me through some pretty rough times ... Read More
The Fentanyl Trail: China to Mexico to American Mortuaries May. 03, 2023
It starts in China, runs through Mexico and ends in mortuaries all across America. This is the fenta... Read More
The Opioid Harm Reduction Trap Mar. 22, 2023
"I would love to see a world in which Boy Scouts make handing out naloxone as their Eagle Scout proj... Read More
Destroy the Mexican Drug Cartels Mar. 10, 2023
The tragic killing of two U.S. citizens this week in the border town of Matamoros, Mexico, should, i... Read More
Overdose Prevention Sites Dec. 31, 2022
They call them "overdose prevention sites." I'd never heard of them until I saw the picture in the L... Read More
Musk Amasses 100 Million Twitter Followers: 5 Tweets He Should Post Now Jun. 29, 2022
Elon Musk surpassed 100 million Twitter followers this week, making him one of the most influential ... Read More
COVID and Fentanyl Disproportionately Affect Native Americans Jun. 03, 2022
Some of you may know that I was born in Oklahoma, and that my DNA includes being one-quarter Cheroke... Read More
The Shameful Treatment of Teens' Troubling Mental Health May. 13, 2022
What is it about our high school years that make them remain so fixed in our minds as we age? Why ar... Read More
