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I don't have kids, but I've often noticed when people first become parents they seem to completely forget their own adolescence and they start to, as their kids become teenagers, try to do the things that didn't stop them themselves. And I jokingly frame this as: Your brain gets wiped of those memories when you become a parent.

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I also had my own addiction to cocaine and heroin in my 20s. I knew that it was driven not by the things that the drug workers were telling me; in fa…

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We have a system that was devised by racists to create racist ends.

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When President Nixon declared war on drugs on June 17, 1971, about 110 people per 100,000 in the population were incarcerated. Today, we have 2-3 mil…

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The best outcomes that are seen for therapy intervention and for other psychological interventions is where the therapist really connects and the per…

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Marijuana is not not harmful, but is the least harmful psychoactive substance that we have, with the possible exception of caffeine.

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Science could never get you to make alcohol and tobacco legal and marijuana illegal. Only racism can do that.

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Because addiction is a developmental problem, the developmental stage is important, things like employment are important, things like having a sense …

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Incarceration is as useful for addiction as it is for diabetes - i.e., not useful and potentially harmful, particularly for kids.

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Addiction is when you fall in love with a drug instead of a child or a lover and the learning that takes part in that part of the brain is designed b…

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