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Drug Legalization Series Part 30: Measuring Outcomes Without Surveillance - Public Health Data Privacy Without a Punitive State
Part 30 explains how public health data privacy can coexist with strong overdose surveillance, 42 CFR Part 2, de-identified health data, and substance use disorder confidentiality in a non-punitive system.
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Grief Is Misplaced Love
After losing Caroline, Andrew faced the identity questions that follow suicide loss. Grief as misplaced love, and how that pain became a lantern for other people.
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A Reentry Story: Part 1 - Coming Home After Ten Years
Andrew picks up his friend PG at Racine Correctional Institution after a ten-year sentence. Release clothes, Denny's, a phone, and the difference between support and rescue on day one.
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What If Most of Us Don't Have to Work Anymore?
AI and robotics could eventually make most paid work unnecessary. That future could expand human freedom, if we decide how to share its wealth and build meaning beyond jobs.
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Drug Legalization Series Part 29: Shrinking the Black Market - How Regulated Drug Supply Undercuts Illegal Markets Without Naivety
Part 29 explains how regulated drug supply can shrink black market drugs and undercut the illegal drug market when policy gets price, access, safety, and enforcement right.
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How Bias Shapes the Information We Receive and the Beliefs We Form
Bias changes more than our conclusions. It shapes what reaches us, what we notice, what we trust, how we interpret it, what we remember, and what eventually feels true.
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The Bottleneck of Bureaucracy: How Wisconsin Moves the Prison Pressure Around
Wisconsin's prison count fell when courts slowed, then climbed back toward its old peak. Here is how overcrowding, contract beds, and program scarcity move through the same machine.
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Why Peer-Led Reintegration Groups Matter After Incarceration
How shared experience, credible role models, mentorship, and belonging can help people process reentry and keep building after incarceration.
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Identity-Based Addiction Recovery vs. 12-Step and the Disease Model
How identity-based recovery relates to 12-step and disease-model care: recovery beyond sobriety, without replacing meetings, sponsorship, or clinical care.
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When the Government Can Make the Evidence
Courts admit video on a low authentication standard, and no AI-specific evidence rule is in force. Here is what actually protects a defendant when proof can be manufactured, and why judicial independence is the safeguard.
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Drug Legalization Series Part 28: Preventing Big Tobacco 2.0: Cannabis Marketing Restrictions for a Regulated Drug Market
Part 28 explains how cannabis marketing restrictions, drug advertising restrictions, youth drug prevention, public health drug policy, and risk-based drug regulation can stop corporate capture before it starts.
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What Grief Support Curriculum Works for Bereavement Groups and Healing Circles?
Grief support curriculum for bereavement groups and healing circles: structured facilitation, meaning reconstruction after loss, and grief workbook practice in a 16-week ReturnPath arc.
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Dear AI Developers: Of Course the Agents Cheated. You Rewarded Them for It.
An open letter to AI developers on OpenAI and Anthropic disclosures: agents left sealed tests and reached real companies because the scoreboard rewarded the shortcut.
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Drug Legalization Series Part 27: Drug Impaired Driving Laws and Workplace Safety - How Regulation Strengthens Enforcement Where It Matters Most
Part 27: drug impaired driving and workplace safety improve when regulation focuses enforcement on actual impairment, not possession.
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What Curriculum Works for Veterans Reintegration and Moral Injury Peer Groups?
Veterans reintegration curriculum for moral injury peer groups: TAP support, peer boundaries, and identity reconstruction after service.
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Wisconsin’s Prison, Reentry, and Supervision Machine
An honest look at Wisconsin’s justice machine from someone who lived it: prisons, reentry, supervision, agents, cops, lawyers, PDs, laws, and lawmakers.
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Benzene in Sunscreen: Contaminant Language, Recalls, and Late Testing
Benzene is a known human carcinogen. Some sunscreen batches tested far above the drug limit. Soft words change when accountability arrives, not exposure.
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How People Rebuild Identity in Addiction Recovery
Research-backed identity reconstruction: narrative identity, possible selves, and redemption scripts in daily Workbook and ReturnPath practice.
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When Seeing Is No Longer Believing
Deepfakes can make fake evidence look real and real evidence look fake. Here is how public trust in video breaks, what Content Credentials can (and cannot) prove, and how to judge what you see.
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Drug Legalization Series Part 26: Protecting Youth and Families - Youth Drug Prevention Through Age Controls, Packaging, Marketing, and Liability
Part 26: youth drug prevention through cannabis age checks, packaging rules, marketing limits, child-resistant packaging, and accountability.