What Is the Opioid Crisis? Analyzing Its Causes and Effects
The opioid crisis killed over 500,000 Americans between 1999 and 2019. Understand the three waves, the neuroscience of addiction, Purdue Pharma's...
August 2025
March 2024
What Is Justice? An Exploration of Fairness and Philosophy
A rigorous evidence-based examination of criminal justice: theories of punishment, what deters crime, mass incarceration, racial disparities, what...
Insights on Drug Policy: Prohibition vs Legalization
What happened when Portugal decriminalized all drugs in 2001? What does cannabis legalization data show? What is harm reduction and does it work?
July 2022
The Cobra Effect: Understanding Prohibition Failures
Why does drug prohibition consistently fail? Explore the cobra effect, the iron law of prohibition, balloon effect, and what evidence from Portugal...