Events for March 8, 2007

8:30 a.m. NYC School Construction Authority trustees will have a meeting at the Tweed Courthouse, 52 Chambers Street.

8:30 a.m. Dr. Nora D. Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and retired U.S. Army Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey will discuss substance abuse by victims of trauma at the National Center on Addiction and Read More

Capitol Crackpots: What Are They Smoking?

On Capitol Hill, June 17 was a happy day for the addiction industries. Trent Lott, the Senate majority leader, announced the death of a landmark tobacco control bill. And Gen. Barry McCaffrey, the Clinton Administration’s “drug czar,” pronounced anathema on the courageous citizens who dare advocate reform of the nation’s narcotics laws. So the marketers Read More

Clinton Misses Point in Debate Over Needles

The Clinton Administration’s worst ongoing scandal is taking place in plain sight, as the most appalling derelictions of responsibility usually do. It has nothing to do with sex, lies or audiotape, which is probably why it has always failed to capture the pornographic imagination of the media. It does involve money, but no tainted campaign Read More