What If We Pay People to Stop Using Drugs?
The question in the title of this post is the headline of this New Republic piece by Zachary Siegel. Its subheadline captures its themes: Traditional treatments often take place in expensive facilities, demand total abstinence, and rely on punitive methods of control. A harm reduction model turns all of that on its head. Here is an excerpt (with links from the original):
In contingency management programs, a positive urine screen does not result in punishment the way it might in other treatment programs, especially when those are court mandated and using drugs can result in jail time. The only negative reinforcement in contingency management is that a positive urine screen means the reward cycle resets, along with the bonus count. You have to start over.
If You re Making Your Dinner in This, Stop Right Now, Experts Say
By Sarah Crow of Best Life |
If You re Making Your Dinner in This, Stop Right Now, Experts Say
Before you prepare your next meal, you might want to make sure that your culinary devices are safe to use first. On Feb. 17, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced the recall of a popular cooking device due to a serious safety risk it presents to users. Read on to find out if you should be unplugging your device for good, and for more culinary staples to ditch, If You Have This Kitchen Tool at Home, Stop Using it Immediately.
If You re Using This to Stay Warm, You Need to Stop Immediately
By Sarah Crow of Best Life |
If You re Using This to Stay Warm, You Need to Stop Immediately
With temperatures dipping and snow blanketing wide swaths of the country, you might be eager to keep your home a bit warmer than usual. However, if you re using a popular type of heater to battle the brutal temperatures, you could be putting yourself at risk for carbon monoxide poisoning or even a fire. Read on to discover if the heater you re using could be putting you in harm s way. And for more products to steer clear of, If You re Using This to Relax, the FDA Says Stop Immediately.
Feb 9th, 2018 12 min read
COMMENTARY BY
Former Senior Research Fellow
Ryan T. Anderson, Ph.D., researched and wrote about marriage, bioethics, religious liberty and political philosophy. Now, activists claim that gender identity is destiny, while biological sex is the social construct. itakdalee/Getty Images
People say that we live in a postmodern age that has rejected metaphysics. That’s not quite true.
We live in a postmodern age that promotes an alternative metaphysics. As I explain in “When Harry Became Sally,” at the heart of the transgender moment are radical ideas about the human person in particular, that people are what they claim to be, regardless of contrary evidence. A transgender boy is a boy, not merely a girl who identifies as a boy.