healthcare policy

Medical panic often begins with the aesthetics of mathematics. It arrives coated in charts, percentages, thresholds, risk scores, and trend lines, all carrying the aura of objectivity and rigor.

For many years, the medical establishment has argued, and in my view correctly, that addiction is a legitimate neurobiological condition that may often require long-term pharmacologic treatment, including with an opioid such as buprenorphine or me

For a decade now, the so-called “opioid crisis” has been framed almost entirely in one narrative direction. We were made aware, and rightly so, of overdose deaths, pill mills, and other forms of reckless and irresponsible prescribing.

The Gift, by Lewis Hyde, explores two different human ways of organizing value and relationships. 'Tis the season for today’s ascendant market economies, where transactions prescribe value.