They just keep your license til you pay. Our state had to pass a law to keep probation withholding licenses from people (even without DUIs) to collect fines and costs. But I agree and would go as far as no marketing or lobbying allowed for these products.

Fair. There is a national network both of DUI courts and of marketers who lobby for legislation that enriches them.

Not in all states and probation is not good at means testing.

DUI prevention as a factory vehicle feature is not a bad idea (assuming the tech is reliable enough for noncriminal use). Interlock as an aftermarket product mandated by courts is a predatory racket and tentacle of the carceral system designed to extract wealth from marginalized people.

Less funny is, I have no septum. II remember the day I blew it out of my nose

Richard Pryor's old routines on cocaine are pretty funny. My favorite one is where he says. "I don't know why they call it freebase; it's not free. It costs your house"

Yeah SUD is funny. I have three brothers. I'm the only one who got the bug

oh i don't know. i think that depends on our definition of rational. I was an extremely rational drug user which is how I survived 27 years. I have met many careful, deliberate drug users

and cheese, because the brain scan lit up! I never got my brain scans when I went to treatment...

In my experience, people are cool with HR as triage but are less comfortable when it overlaps into recreational use.

drugs and recovery is very fluid, more about wellness than abstinence.

I really like the way DSM- 5 is substance specific and has levels of disorder. Dependence in that framework only means physical dependence, which not all drugs feature ( however nicotine does). I also love the non- clinical notions of ones relationships with substances, assuming that most humans use

The other related concept is the addictive personality which comes out of the old school non-scientific body of addiction treatment.

an exit strategy; and even if they were used long-term operationally, they don't involve frequently repeated behavior like smoking or popping a tablet. The word dependence has a more specific meaning in DSM-5 but again we diagnose people not substances.

how they defined dependence forming in this study. (I'll read it) When I quit smoking I used tablets for about a year and then used the patch to get off of them. It was clearly a healthy dose of nicotine. I used to take them before bed on purpose to enjoy the lucid dreams. But patches tend to be

This one's interesting to me. I say, substances are not addictive; people are. People can get addicted to things that are not considered addictive. However, some substances certainly do lend themselves to it. In my experience, nicotine is one of the worst and I have a lot of experience. I'm not sure