Showing posts with label drugs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drugs. Show all posts
Monday, August 24, 2026

Why Has Violent Crime Dropped?

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    Many posts have discussed crime in the United States . Mike Allen at Axios : By the numbers: The U.S. violent-crime rate plunged 9....
Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Housing and Homelessness in LA

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A number of posts have dealt with homelessness .   Andrew Khouri and Doug Smith at LAT : A 2025 poll from Politico and the UC Berkeley Ci...
Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Disappearing Data

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"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street...
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Pardoning a Drug Trafficker

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Previous   posts  have  discussed  the  president's   pardon   power . Marc Caputo at Axios: From a U.S. prison cell, Honduras' ex-p...
Friday, October 31, 2025

A Looming Act of War

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  Previous posts have discussed presidential  decisions  to  kill suspected terrorists . ( See NYT story on the "kill list." )   C...
Monday, September 22, 2025

Extrajudicial Killing

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 Tom Nichols at The Atlantic writes about deadly military attacks against boats in international waters : The Trump administration’s justif...
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Drug Deaths Plunged in 2024

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Many   posts  have  discussed   substance abuse . David Ovalle at WP : U.S. drug deaths plunged in 2024, according to federal data publishe...
Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Fentanyl Madness

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Many   posts  have  discussed   myths  and  misinformation .  Some whoppers involve drugs . Lev Facher at STAT : In recent months, federal p...
Friday, October 4, 2024

Marijuana Can Be Addictive

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Many posts have discussed the politics of cannabis . From NIH : Between 1995 and 2022 the delta-9 THC potency (strength) in illegal can...
Monday, August 12, 2024

Drug Recriminalization in Oregon

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Keith Humphreys and Rob Bovett at The Atlantic : America’s most radical experiment with drug decriminalization has ended after more than thr...
Sunday, July 7, 2024

Alcohol Deaths

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Many posts have discussed substance abuse . Isabella Cueto  and J. Emory Parker at STAT : Alcohol sales per capita went up more from 2019...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

American Men and Life Expectancy

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  A release from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health We’ve known for more than a century that women outlive men. But new research ...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Education and Overdose

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Many   posts  have  discussed   i inequality  and  higher education . October 6, 2023   David Powell, "Educational Attainment and US Dr...
Thursday, August 10, 2023

Opioid Abuse and Deaths of Despir

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National Institute on Drug Abuse : In 2021, an estimated 2.5 million people aged 18 years or older in the U.S. had opioid use disorder in ...
Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Homelessness in California

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A number of  posts  have dealt with  homelessness .     A release from UC San Francisco : The University of California, San Francisco Benio...
Friday, January 27, 2023

Religion and Deaths of Despair

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Opiates of the Masses? Deaths of Despair and the Decline of American ReligionTyler Giles, Daniel M. Hungerman, and Tamar OostromNBER Working...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Life Expectancy Drops Again

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Kate Sheridan at STAT : Americans born in 2021 can expect to live for just 76.1 years — the lowest life expectancy has been since 1996, acc...
Thursday, April 28, 2022

Guns: Leading Cause of Death among Children and Adolescents

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Jason E. Goldstick, Ph.D. Rebecca M. Cunningham, M.D.  Patrick M. Carter, M.D at The New England Journal of Medicine : The Centers for Dise...
Thursday, March 3, 2022

Penetrable

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On September 18, 2019, the 45th president said: Now, the wall still, obviously, has a ways to go, but we're building it at a breakneck s...
Thursday, February 3, 2022

Deaths: COVID and Overdose

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The U.S. faces other steep disadvantages, ones that experts worry could cause additional problems. For example, many Americans have health p...