patterned use of a drug in which the user consumes the psychoactive/chemical substance substances in amounts or with methods which are harmful to themselves or others
Charles Hilu writes for the Washington Examiner about the Biden administration learning the wrong lessons from California policies. California’s homeless population has skyrocketed since the state adopted housing policies that…
Substance abuse, severe mental illness, homelessness, poverty, crime, and other social disorders are now seemingly rampant problems. Videos taken from the streets of Los Angeles and Philadelphia and shared on…
Naomi Schaefer Riley of the American Enterprise Institute describes one negative consequence of society’s increased acceptance of drug use. What jobs are OK to do while you’re high? It’s a…
Legislation introduced this week would decrease healthcare costs and increase access to medical care for North Carolinians, by eliminating our backwards and restrictive Certificate of Need (CON) laws. House Bill…
North Carolina's archaic certificate-of-need laws leave the state with significant deficits in psychiatric hospitals and substance abuse facilities — and higher prices. North Carolina should join the 15 other states…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE North Carolina’s antiquated Certificate-of-Need (CON) laws should be repealed or reformed to meet our growing state’s need for more access to affordable, convenient care to treat both…
Executive Summary North Carolina is one of 35 states with a Certificate of Need (CON) program, a law requiring health providers to obtain the permission of a state board before…
Americans, and especially our country’s youth, were already experiencing a mental health reckoning before the novel coronavirus. Now, 5 months into the pandemic, there is evidence COVID-19 is acting like…
Anna Giaritelli of the Washington Examiner highlights the coronavirus pandemic’s potential impact on drug use worldwide. Illicit drug use shot up 30% worldwide over the past decade and is expected…
This week, Meredith Criner, who served as a research intern at the John Locke Foundation this summer, published an opinion piece on drug-recovery courts in the Wilmington Star News. Criner…
Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online that regulations and provider shortages block drug addicts from getting treatment. Kristen Blair’s Daily Journal focuses on reversing declining math scores among American…
From movies to TV shows, the new trend in Hollywood seems to the focus on family dynamics at play when grandparents are thrust into parenting a second time, as Steve…