by Paul Spector | Oct 25, 2020 | Harm Reduction-Mental Health
At the presidential debates, Joe Biden mentioned the need to stop incarcerating people for drug use and divert them into treatment instead. It was good to see a major U.S. presidential candidate acknowledge that prison is not an effective way to deal with drug abuse....
by Paul Spector | Oct 17, 2020 | Technological Innovation
I cut my computing teeth on an IBM 360 mainframe in the mid 1970s. I recall countless hours in the university computer center submitting punch card decks and waiting, sometimes hours, for the printed output. The first computer I owned was a Commodore 64, another...
by Paul Spector | Oct 12, 2020 | Harm Reduction-Mental Health
Drug abuse is an international problem that affects millions of people. In the US and most western countries the solution has been to attack the problem of drug abuse on the supply side by making drug sale and use illegal. In 1971 the Nixon administration declared war...
by Paul Spector | Oct 6, 2020 | Harm Reduction-Mental Health
Substance abuse involving alcohol and/or drugs is certainly not new, but the widespread prescribing of opioid drugs for pain has created an epidemic. Opioid-related deaths due to overdose in the U.S. alone skyrocketed in the 2010s. According to the Centers for Disease...
