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Deterrence is not pretty. But sometimes it’s necessary.
Archive for October, 2010
October 17th, 2010
Category: Watching Conservatives
The Republican nominee for the Senate from Colorado manages to annoy alcoholic and gays with a single dim-witted statement.
October 17th, 2010
There were two related and important developments in addiction medicine this week. Walter Ling has a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association showing that a buprenorphine implant is effective at reducing drug craving and use in opioid addicted patients, and the FDA has approved an extended-release formulation of naltrexone for the treatment [...]
October 16th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
Barack Obama, in Boston today:
You want to go forward, what do you do? You put it your car in ‘D.’ When you go backward, what do you do? You put it in ‘R.’
October 16th, 2010
An amateur report card on the progress of the US health IT plan.
October 16th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
A cable talking head says the mot juste about current politics.
October 16th, 2010
Category: Foreign Policy, Iraq
As we seem to be going through a slow spot in postings, I feel comfortable re-cycling here at RBC my observations on the state of Iraqi Kurdistan, which were originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle but now reside on the regional government’s website. As Salaam Alaikum
October 15th, 2010
Category: Academic Labor Market, Drug Policy
The feds won’t acquiesce in legalizing non-medical commercial cannabis production and sale.