Saturday, January 23, 2016

Do Recent Events Support Drug Prohibition?

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Do those recent events refute drug policy libertarianism? The number of drug-related poisonings is up dramatically over the past 15 yea...
Thursday, January 21, 2016

Is it Bad if Prescription Painkiller Deaths Increase?

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It’s been widely reported that the number of deaths from prescription opioids has increased in recent years, and I’m willing to believe tha...
Monday, January 18, 2016

Fentanyl and Heroin Overdose Deaths

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There is a recent disturbing trend of rapidly increasing heroin overdose deaths. Many of these are actually cases of heroin spiked with fen...
Saturday, January 16, 2016

Prescription Opioids and Benzodiazepines, and a Failed Opportunity to Meaningfully Inform the Public

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As I said in a previous post , I am extremely skeptical of the CDC’s reports on rising prescription painkiller overdose deaths. More pointe...
Monday, January 11, 2016

Mortality and Age

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I spent some time recently picking through CDC’s mortality data. My curiosity was piqued by recent reports of exploding mortality rates due...
Sunday, January 10, 2016

Why I’m Skeptical of the CDC’s Drug Overdose Figures

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There has been much reporting of very large and very recent increases in the number of drug overdoses. If you believe the CDC’s raw figures...
Monday, December 7, 2015

Bad Amateur Social Science

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Many political arguments go as follows: “Social Problem X is much smaller in Country Y than it is in America. Therefore we should adopt Cou...