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Opioid Prescriptions Drop for First Time in Two Decades. Great news. But maybe not as great as we hoped.
Opioid prescriptions have actually been declining over a 3 year period, in the wake of an extraordinary era when they rose to incredible heights. As we’ve said so many times before, that was the result of a  complicated set of factors, including the...

Anybody see this piece in the NY Times? Apparently businesses are struggling to find applicants for jobs who can get past the pre-employment drug test.
Did you find that surprising? I didn’t, having noticed the trend over the past couple decades.
My late mother used to worry about any service or repair worker who came to the door. “How do I know he’s not on drugs?” she’d complain. I admit I dismissed it until one visit when I happened to meet the cable guy. Seriously, folks, this guy should have...

Our region is one of the epicenters of the opiate problem– it was featured in Sam Quinones’ prizewinning book Dreamland— and that provides us with a window onto some of the less discussed aspects of life during a drug epidemic. The Espanola Valley, for...

In our local weekly: A full page ad by a Colorado company touting the benefits of its products.
“The Power of Marijuana”, the ad trumpets; it “RELIEVES chronic pain, depression, migraines, anxiety, nausea, cancer, PTSD, insomnia.” That’s odd because the ad doesn’t mention medical marijuana, and the company does bill itself as a producer of cannabis...