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Scott Burris

  • Health Law Policy

    The Ban on Federal Funding of Syringes — continued

    By Scott Burris People arguing that our federal government spends “too much” sound more and more like cynics by Oscar Wilde’s famous definition: knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing. I’m neither…

    The Ban on Federal Funding of Syringes — continued

  • Empirical

    The Law School Reform Panic

    By Scott Burris I am going to take a slight detour from health law to talk about legal education. This week the Times was all over a story about the need to drastically reform law…

    The Law School Reform Panic

  • HIV/AIDS

    Dave Purchase and Naloxone, Life Savers

    By Scott Burris Start with the sad news of the week. Dave Purchase died, aged 73. Dave was the father of needle exchange in the US, which as far as anyone can say started with…

    Dave Purchase and Naloxone, Life Savers

  • Health Law Policy

    Where Are We Now: Post 5, Ways of Being Wrong – and Opportunities to be Right

    By Scott Burris The main contests (a summary of previous posts): A lot of people in public health practice seem to be (appropriately) concerned about our public health infrastructure – the agencies within public health…

    Where Are We Now: Post 5, Ways of Being Wrong – and Opportunities to be Right

  • Empirical

    Where Are We Now: Post 4, Looking in the Mirror, or 3 Games in Public Health

    By Scott Burris In a well-known exchange, Richard Epstein argued that modern public health had strayed far outside its traditional and proper work of preventing epidemics and injuries into a realm of social engineering in…

    Where Are We Now: Post 4, Looking in the Mirror, or 3 Games in Public Health

  • First Amendment

    Where Are We Now: Post 3, The Agony (and Potential Ecstasy) of Defeat

    By Scott Burris Law has been an extremely effective mode of public health intervention in the last thirty years, which means that proponents of its use have won more than a few tough political battles. …

    Where Are We Now: Post 3, The Agony (and Potential Ecstasy) of Defeat

  • Doctor-Patient Relationship

    Researchers to Lawmakers: Naloxone Distribution to Prevent Overdose Death is Cost-Effective

    By Scott Burris Phil Coffin and Sean Sullivan have published a cost-effectiveness study of interventions that equip heroin users and others to administer naloxone in the event of a witnessed opioid overdose.  Naloxone is the…

    Researchers to Lawmakers: Naloxone Distribution to Prevent Overdose Death is Cost-Effective

  • Health Law Policy

    Where Are We Now: Post 2, The Thrill of Victory

    By Scott Burris Between budget cuts and “nanny state” attacks, it’s easy to feel that public health is a perennial political loser.  As for the courts, the first two constitutional amendments alone are throwing up…

    Where Are We Now: Post 2, The Thrill of Victory

  • Bioethics

    Not too late for that ethically inclined law and society loved one’s stocking

    By Scott Burris Nicky Priaulx of Cardiff and Anthony Wrigley of Keele have edited the latest volume in the Ashgate book series, “Ethics, Law and Society.”  Matthew Weait and I have contributed a piece on…

    Not too late for that ethically inclined law and society loved one’s stocking

  • Events

    The State of Public Health Law: Post I, “Who Am I? Why am I Here?”

    By Scott Burris Early in January, Lindsay Wiley and the Network for Public Health Law will convene a group of health law professors and (and a few colleagues from public health law practice) in Washington. …

    The State of Public Health Law: Post I, “Who Am I? Why am I Here?”