by Anthony Myers | Jul 13, 2017 | Alcohol Abuse, Substance Abuse
Nelsan Ellis (Wikimedia commons) Last week actor Nelsan Ellis, better known as Lafayette on the HBO series True Blood, died at age 39 from heart failure. Earlier this week, his family elaborated in the hope of helping others: he died of heart failure while trying to...
by Anthony Myers | Jul 12, 2017 | Drug Addiction, Substance Abuse
“Drugs are bad.” This is the repeated comment of the Mr. Mackey character on the television series South Park. But does Mr. Mackey ever explain in great detail why he believes that drugs are bad? Do any of our authority figures? I’m showing my age here, but I was in...
by Anthony Myers | Jul 11, 2017 | Substance Abuse
Today is July seventh, or 7/11 or 11/7, depending on how you write the date. For a lot of people, seven and eleven are lucky numbers. Remember a decade ago, when there were a slew of couples who got married on July 7, 2007 (7/7/7)? They seemed to believe in the...
by Anthony Myers | Jul 7, 2017 | Drug Addiction, Substance Abuse
In 1954 Darrell Huff published How to Lie with Statistics. The cover blurb added, “Now you, too, can out-double-talk your accountant; confuse your political opponent; prove that your product has secret built-in goodness!” The introduction spelled out that “This book...
by Anthony Myers | Jul 6, 2017 | Drug Addiction, Substance Abuse
Q: If a problem has gotten worse while spending money on it, is the solution to spend less money on it? A: Yes, according to an editorial in National Review. The author is Sam Adolphsen, “a senior fellow at the Foundation for Government Accountability,” a...
by Anthony Myers | Jun 30, 2017 | Mental Health, Substance Abuse
One insanely important feature of the various Republican-based health care reform packages is Health Savings Accounts. Why? The idea behind HSAs is sort of like 401(k)s. You get a tax free account in which employers/and or employees can put money, only in the case of...
