All Posts Tagged With: "drug addiction"
Drug Decriminalization Has Failed?
Michael Gerson, former speechwriter for President George W. Bush and now a columnist for the Washington Post, has denounced libertarianism as “morally empty,” “anti-government,” “a scandal,” “an idealism that strangles mercy,” guilty of “selfishness,” “rigid ideology,” and “rigorous ideological coldness.” (He’s starting to repeat himself.) In his May 9 column, “Ron Paul’s Land of Second-Rate [...]
24Aug2011 | David Boaz | 7 comments | ContinuedDrug War Crimes: The Consequences of Prohibition
In perhaps no other public-policy question is the United States more hopelessly in the grip of a conventional wisdom that is utterly and egregiously wrong than drugs. Most Americans, no matter their political affiliation, are adamant supporters of the “war on drugs.” Try suggesting that the war might be stupendous folly and you’ll most likely [...]
9Jul2010 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedLegalize All Drugs
Reading the New York Post‘s popular Page Six gossip page recently, I was surprised to find a picture of me, followed by the lines: “ABC’S John Stossel wants the government to stop interfering with your right to get high. The crowd went silent at his call to legalize hard drugs.” I had attended a Marijuana [...]
1Oct2008 | John Stossel | 7 comments | ContinuedOn Not Admitting Error
According to a September 2006 report in the New York Times, Afghanistan’s opium harvest has increased almost 50 percent from the year before and reached the highest levels ever recorded. Antonio Maria Costa, head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (sic) explained: “It is indeed very bad, you can say it is [...]
1Mar2007 | Thomas Szasz | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Myth of Available Pain Care
America is in the midst of an ongoing epidemic of undertreated chronic pain. This fact is confirmed by surveys such as “Chronic Pain in America: Roadblocks to Relief,” which is posted on the American Pain Society website (www.ampainsoc.org/ whatsnew/toc_road.htm). The economic cost of this epidemic can be estimated, in terms of lost productivity, at about [...]
1Apr2005 | Frank B. Fisher | 30 comments | ContinuedTaking Drug Laws Seriously, II
Libertarians univocally assert that the prohibition against initiating violence is a cardinal principle of libertarianism. The peasant in Colombia who grows coca is not initiating violence. The politician in the District of Columbia who enacts laws authorizing the use of military aircraft to bomb and destroy the peasant’s crop does.
1Oct2003 | Thomas Szasz | 2 comments | ContinuedUnequal Justice for All
Drug prohibition is stupid social policy for many reasons, most obviously because forbidden fruit tastes sweeter; that is, because one of the easiest ways for a young person to assert his autonomy is by defying authority, especially arbitrary and hypocritical authority.
1Jul2003 | Thomas Szasz | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Robert Downey Jr. Problem
Drugs can exercise a powerful hold over a human being. What other lesson is possible from the arrest of actor Robert Downey Jr., yet again, on drug charges?
His life is a tragedy: a gifted actor, with access to the sort of money and fame of which most people only dream, succumbs to drugs and ends up in jail. His latest arrest came only three months after being released from prison.
1Mar2001 | Doug Bandow | 1 comment | ContinuedLying Government Ads
Tibor Machan is a professor at the Leatherby Center of Chapman University, California, and research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford, California. His latest book is Generosity: Virtue in Civil Society (Cato Institute, 1998). As I was driving to the pharmacy not long ago, I heard a “public service” radio announcement, crafted by some California [...]
1Mar1998 | Tibor R. Machan | 0 comments | ContinuedAddiction is an Illness
Dr. Berger is President of Richmond Memorial Hospital; Chairman of the Committee on Alcoholism and Narcotics of the New York State Medical Society; president. Medical Society of the City of New York. Upon pressure from the World Health Organization and other branches of the United Nations, the government of the United Kingdom had announced that [...]
1Oct1956 | Herbert Berger M.D | 1 comment | Continued-
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