by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Oct 15, 2020 | Culture, Drug Policy, Economics, Opinion, Politics
Once again, the nation is agonized over a police killing of a person of color. Once again, mistrust between the community and the police rile riots that rope in the innocent. This time, it is the case of Breonna Taylor, killed in a botched drug raid. Once again,...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 31, 2020 | Culture, Drug Policy, Guns, Politics
The protests (warranted) and riots (unjustifiable) prompted by the horrific death of George Floyd under the knee of a police officer produce all sorts of stupidity masquerading as truth-to-power armchair wisdom. This morning, I found my email in-box loaded with half a...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Mar 4, 2020 | Drug Policy, Economics
This article is the first in a series on the interplay between drug abuse, crime and mental illness. Issues will be individually illustrated by my experiences as a paramedic. – EDN The USA incarcerates more people than the rest of the developed world combined....
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 1, 2020 | Culture, Drug Policy, Economics, Guns, Immigration, Opinion, Politics
The University of California at Berkeley, the place where woke happened decades before everywhere else, recently woke up to the fact that its law school carried a name of a racist. What was formerly the John Boalt Law School is now merely The Law Building. A...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jan 20, 2020 | Drug Policy
Responsibility for America’s opioid crisis has to be found out. Local governments have taken the large pharmaceutical companies to court for that, but a better way for determining responsibility is to draw a distinction between the crisis of addiction and the...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Nov 26, 2019 | Drug Policy, Economics
America’s opioid crisis has been uniquely lethal. A look around the world shows us how other nations have mitigated it much more successfully. For starters, we can say drug policy in America is killing people through failure to adapt, but there are two other...
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