Scott Fitzgerald, you might get the impression that everyone during the 1920s flouted Prohibition and got away with it. But while it’s true that a small portion of white, middle- and upper-class urbanites lived that way, the Roaring Twenties was also the decade in which the newly revived...
How much time is debatable; some say a month, some say a lifetime. But most modern researchers have concluded that treatment should consist of a combination of methods in order to achieve the highest potential for lifetime abstinence. When an addict enters rehab for a substance-abuse problem,...
The movement for prohibition began with concerns in the early 19th century about the negative effects of drinking. The National Prohibition Act was ineffective and failed to control the distribution and use of alcohol, and led to an increase in organized crime. Still, it remained in effect until...
Did this scene make you cry? Photo: YouTube 25 'The Untouchables' - Jimmy Malone Didn't Scream After building an empire with bootleg alcohol, legendary crime boss Al Capone (Robert De Niro) rules Chicago with an iron fist. Though Prohibition agent Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) attempts to tak...
The National Prohibition Act was ineffective and failed to control the distribution and use of alcohol, and led to an increase in organized crime. Still, it remained in effect until the 21st Amendment was passed 14 years later. [Pictured: New York City Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach...
Walter is a common man who plunges dangerously into the world of methamphetamine, a substance that continues to sprawl — in empire fashion — across much of America and the rest of the world. Meth is by no means a fictional plot point in a cable television program. Whether you call it ...
The movement for prohibition began with concerns in the early 19th century about the negative effects of drinking. The National Prohibition Act was ineffective and failed to control the distribution and use of alcohol, and led to an increase in organized crime. Still, it remained in effect until...
There are vegans who think it's ok to eat oysters and mussels. I want to go a step farther: vegans should be ok with dairy. Specifically, under pretty conservative assumptions you do much more good donating just $5/year to the Against Malaria Foundation
Proponents of drug legalization have long argued that the cure of prohibition is worse than the disease. More careful analysts of the situation have still tended to view "cure" costs as substantial and not always and everywhere justifiable. At certain margins this implies drug use can be tolerate...
as became apparent during the Great Depression. Ultimately, the McFadden Act laid the groundwork for future banking reforms. It culminated in the Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act of 1994, which repealed its interstate banking prohibitions and created a more integrated nation...