People in recovery need ongoing support because addiction is a chronic illness. You don’t go to ‘five days of detox’ and sail off into the sunsetThe opioid painkiller OxyContin hit the market in a big way in the year 2000, just after I turned 17. I was already using other prescription drugs. I...
Politics & Government
Sudanese innovations under US sanctions
Sudanese businesses have been innovating under two decades of US sanctions. Source: http://lslink.info/?c=25vq
Mississippi Suit On Gay Marriage Recusals Is Reopened
In June, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed for lack of standing a challenge to Mississippi's broad Conscience Protection Act. (See prior posting.) In October, an en banc rehearing was denied. In light of this, yesterday a Mississippi federal district court in Campaign for Southern...
Feminist Profs Publishing Anthology of ‘Queer Feminist Science’
“queer feminist concerns have led us straight to science
Israel’s High Court Upholds Local Law Allowing Supermarkets To Open on Sabbath
According to the Jerusalem Post, in Israel yesterday an expanded panel of the country's High Court of Justice upheld a Tel Aviv municipal bylaw that allows 165 large supermarkets to remain open on the Sabbath. Small stores which must close because of the Law for Hours of Work and Rest, which...
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