Sunday, July 13th, 2008
Headline: Americans are world's top drug users: study "Americans are the world's top consumers of cannabis and cocaine despite punitive US drug laws..."
We also rank pretty high (or low, depending upon your perspective) in pharmaceutical drug use. Why on earth would a free people need to "escape" via the chemical ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
If you can't trust the FDA, then who can you trust? After all, it's part of the Federal Government and the designated watchdog to protect the consuming public from dangerous and ineffective drugs. It also sits in a position of impartiality, is loaded to the gills with expertise, and even ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
The "War on Drugs" is a term that having worked as a Texas peace officer but also being much more liberal and open-minded than most officers has really troubled me. And, after seeing the astounding report that almost 1% of the entire United States population is currently in jail or ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
About 16 girls, around 16 years old were reported to be pregnant in Gloucester, and at least 50% of those became pregnant by choice or made a pact to bring up kids. So, what's shocking about it?
Teens getting pregnant is hardly news. What's startling is perhaps the number of pregnancies ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Everywhere we turn today we are bombarded with news about the current health care crisis in the United States. We are inundated with the negative aspects of our medical system on TV, the radio and newspapers. In Michael Moore's docudrama "Sicko" our health care system is portrayed as a beast ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Do not be misled by the warm and fuzzy TV commercials directed at you by the big pharmaceutical companies. Those companies do NOT have your welfare at heart. They're in the dairy faming business and you are their prize cash cow. They milk and they milk and there is no ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
National health care might be a disaster, due to the cost and the complexity. A government-controlled system also creates agonizing moral dilemmas (read about the eye treatment ruling covered further down). Still, despite my opposition to it, I can see it's a real possibility, and soon. Keeping that in mind, ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Too many people think that schools are hopeless and that nothing can be done. Or they live in that dream world that says, "not here; not my school." This is exactly the same mentality that we old-timers saw at the early stages of what later became a nationwide drug epidemic.
What ...
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
If one were to create a list of the prescription drugs most likely to cause addiction and dependency, OxyContin, morphine, and methadone would be right at the top. In fact, these drugs are also among those responsible for the alarming increase in 'accidental poisoning deaths' - 20,950 in 2004, up ...
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
If it wasn't for the paper place-mat at my favorite Chinese Restaurant and the recall of almost 20 million items made in China I would never have known that 2007 was the year of the pig. The American middle class is more dependent on cheap Chinese made products than we ...
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