New Research Shows OxyContin Epidemic to be a Myth

Trevor Butterworth
The media and the Drug Enforcement Agency created a myth of widespread accidental addiction to OxyContin a new study of almost 28,000 drug addicts attending treatment centers across the United States shows. The research, published in the November 2007 issue of the Journal of American Psychiatry also demonstrates that:
most of the OxyContin use [...]

Did Rolling Stone Really Publish the Smartest Drug Story of the Year?

Trevor Butterworth
Slate’s Jack Shafer has described Ben Wallace-Well’s 15,000-word story for Rolling Stone - “How America Lost the War on Drugs” - as the “smartest drug story of the year:”
“If I were maximum dictator, I would force every newspaper editor, every magazine editor, and every television producer in the land to read Ben Wallace-Wells… [he] [...]