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The Congressional Budget Office just released a comprehensive new report investigating the budgetary effects of a hypothetical increase in the federal excise tax on cigarettes and small cigars from, $1.01 to $1.51 in fiscal year…
By Scott Burris Australian public health law savant Chris Reynolds recently stopped by Temple Law School to discuss the South Australia Public Health Act of 2011. It is a fresh look at how to write…
By Scott Burris You’ve probably heard about the good news/bad news experience of Stephanie Bongiovi, daughter of rocker Jon Bon Jovi. A college student, she ODed on heroin, but help was summoned and she’s going to…
By Scott Burris There’s so much we still don’t know about the prescription opioid problem. The partial remedies advanced so far reflect this: Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs, which in essence define the problem as doctor-shopping…
By Scott Burris This is a succinct paragraph from the weekly newsletter of U. Maryland’s Center for Substance Abuse Research. Seems relevant both to the conference on law enforcement and public health I reported on…
By Scott Burris We know, and now most people acknowledge, that police activity has some clear, and in some instances intentional, effects on health. To start with the obvious, police are instrumental in reducing the…
By Scott Burris Two thoughts for the Friday following the 2012 APHA Annual Meeting: (1) This is a public service message for public health lawyers and their extra-disciplinary significant others. The American Public Health Association…
By Scott Burris Kathy Ward is a veteran public health worker in Nebraska. She has a neat idea, which I summarize here in mostly her words: Public health policy needs more proponents who are knowledgeable…
By Scott Burris Somewhere along the way, environmental law and public health law got separated. Despite the importance of clean air and water to public health – not to mention parks, recreation, salubrious zoning –…
By Scott Burris Graduated Drivers’ License Laws have apparently been a major success in reducing crashes among novice drivers. (A couple of studies have suggested the laws might just be postponing crashes, but so far…
