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Category Archives: Addictions
Curbing antibiotics on farms taking too long
This is good case in point on the cold hearted bottom line taking precedent. Routine use of antibiotics makes some bacteria stronger and resistant to treatment. When those hardier bugs infect a person, antibiotics might no longer work. Last month, … Continue reading
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FDA wants restrictions on hydrocodone painkillers
You have to ask yourself just who makes money off of the most extensively prescribed pain killer in the nation. The when you look at the profit margin from this drug as a class III drug and the easy access … Continue reading
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Police in Florida suburb make millions from drug sting operations, report finds
It amazes me how much these cops were making and it is totally legal. Makes you wonder who is wining the war on drugs. The numbers are amazing. Can not help but think there is a good argument made here … Continue reading
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Inside El Salvador’s secretive prison pits where notorious gangs are crammed together like livestock in cells the size of a shed
The fuel and has ignited the current round of violence is the voracious appetite of the giant to the North for illegal drugs. Yes, there are a ton of cultural, economic, political and religious factors that have laid the ground work … Continue reading
John Romano: Time to take a hard look at state minimum mandatory sentences, too
Now that the lead has come from the top, everyone has the relative safety to express and support changes to the system. It has been overloaded and the prison and prison related budget lines are out of control. “Our prison … Continue reading
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Is this a nightmare come true
It was almost 40 years ago that I was in Colombia as a Special Forces lieutenant. I was traveling around the country side on a bus with a colonel from the Colombian army. I asked him why the army could … Continue reading
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Texas Slaying First Time in History Wife of U.S. Prosecutor Has Been Targeted
This is the standard MO of the drug cartels throughout Latin America and we have yet to see the leading edge of the world-wind we are about to reap. In Mexico alone there have been over 50,000 men, women and … Continue reading
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Black youth far more likely to get arrested, figures show
All that follows is from a town where medicine, education and government are the economic engines of the community. Someone please tell me what is wrong here? Black youth far more likely to get arrested, figures show and Police trying to … Continue reading
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13-Year-Old Mexican Drug Cartel Hitman Found Dead, Tortured
The US drug use/abuse has created distortions/instability/disruptions and chaos in the social fabric south of the border in the countries that grow and transport those drugs to our cars, homes and places of pleasure. 13-Year-Old Mexican Drug Cartel Hitman Found … Continue reading
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Ranking 20 Drugs and Alcohol by Overall Harm
A study like this would never have gotten legs in the US much less be reported. Somehow don’t think there are any surprises here. Ranking 20 Drugs and Alcohol by Overall Harm
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Gateless Gate 