The murder by a combination of politicians and gangs of 43 students training to be teachers in 2014 rocked Mexico to its core. To millions of Mexicans, it was the final nail in the coffin of believing
We lost George Segal last week. This….was not one of his best films. It’s the 1985 ridiculous anti-drug TV film Not My Kid. I’d like to think that the pained expressions of Segal and
In case you need to read about Foucault tripping at Zabriskie Point: But once he was “tripping his brains out”, what, finally, did Foucault see? Foucault in California, though filled with anecdote
Once again demonstrating that everything should be written by historians, Donna Murch has a great piece on how we are talking about opioid crisis, especially noting the deep racism underlying it. In M
The answer to that question is of course multifaceted. But one part of the answer is, not surprisingly, the drug companies who profit handsomely by flooding the nation with opioids. Drug wholesalers s
The opioid epidemic is real and terrible. However, a tax on opioids, even if it claims to be paid by the manufacturer, will probably end up leading to higher costs to the people who actually need thes
The Senate nearly unanimously passed a bill for new programs to fight against opioid addiction. Something can be bipartisan! Well, sort of. Republicans did much of the legwork on this, particularly Ro
There is not a single one of you who couldn’t benefit from seeing this collection of advertisements for cocaine and cocaine accessories from the 1970s.