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Topic: How can public policy makers avoid replacing an old set of unworkable myths with a new set of unworkable myths?
Topic Posted by: R. Bodholdt (http://www.galapagos@webtv.net )Date Posted: Wed Apr 1 0:47:48 1998
Topic Description: Addiction is a problem with many voices. Personally, I am an advocate of research, experience and dialogue. My concern is that public policy makers (and society) are at a stage of readiness to simply endorse another set of uninspected ideas.
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Posted by: Mystic the Cat
Date posted: Wed Apr 1 19:12:43 1998
Subject: Dogma and superstitiion
Message:
I would have to agree, that historically, when faced with very difficult problems, people exhaust all readily available (in consciousness) ways of viewing reality, and are primed to make a hasty choice to relieve the pain of uncertainty. Hence comes an old adage "Do no harm".