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This and Housing First are my favorite policy approaches to addressing addiction and recovery. It’s pure common sense that’s been repeatedly validated by empirical investigations in both conventional studies and pilot policies. It’s very difficult to imagine how you could oppose these unless you’re an armchair pseudoscientist, suicidally elitist, or a hack with an ulterior motive. Both directly…
It created the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).
In 2017, under Section 319 of the Public Health Service Act, President Trump declared a public health emergency over the opioid crisis.
In 1633, Sultan Murad IV of the Ottoman Empire banned tobacco, coffee, and alcohol, punishable by death. He blamed them for fueling unrest, and he personally would patrol the streets and execute suspected violators on the spot. Murad and Sultan are now known as Turkish-tobacco cigarette brands. The drugs won that war. In fact, once he tortured twenty of his own officers to death for using…
Unlike his predecessor who held the papacy for 12 days, Pope Urban VIII reigned for 21 years. He prohibited the use of tobacco in holy places under the threat of excommunication in a 1624 decree. Supposedly, the excessive sneezing and grime from chewing tobacco felt disruptive and disrespectful.
In 1590, Pope Urban VII issued perhaps the first ban on smoking, threatening anyone with excommunication for using tobacco in or near a church. It covered smoking, chewing, or sniffing snuff. He died of malaria and holds the record for the shortest papacy in history: 12 days.