by Paul Spector | Nov 2, 2020 | Harm Reduction-Mental Health
As we have learned over the past few months, pandemics are no fun. COVID-19 has disrupted our lives and created high levels of stress. There are many ways that people deal with stress, some productive and others not so much. New research published in the peer-reviewed...
by Paul Spector | Oct 25, 2020 | Harm Reduction-Mental Health
At the presidential debates, Joe Biden mentioned the need to stop incarcerating people for drug use and divert them into treatment instead. It was good to see a major U.S. presidential candidate acknowledge that prison is not an effective way to deal with drug abuse....
by Paul Spector | Oct 12, 2020 | Harm Reduction-Mental Health
Drug abuse is an international problem that affects millions of people. In the US and most western countries the solution has been to attack the problem of drug abuse on the supply side by making drug sale and use illegal. In 1971 the Nixon administration declared war...
by Paul Spector | Oct 6, 2020 | Harm Reduction-Mental Health
Substance abuse involving alcohol and/or drugs is certainly not new, but the widespread prescribing of opioid drugs for pain has created an epidemic. Opioid-related deaths due to overdose in the U.S. alone skyrocketed in the 2010s. According to the Centers for Disease...
by Steven Spector | Jan 16, 2020 | Harm Reduction-Mental Health, Information Security, Technological Innovation
What is an IMSI Catcher? An international mobile subscriber identity-catcher, or IMSI-catcher is a device used for mobile phone surveillance.They are also often referred to as a Stingray or Stingray Suveillance device. It serves as a MITM (Man in the Middle) attack by...
by Steven Spector | Oct 4, 2018 | Harm Reduction-Mental Health
“We found nothing on the pill camera. Your health is all clear.” Those would be the words anyone would want to hear from a gastroenterologist. I, however, had to resist the sudden urge to hurl my phone into the street. I muttered a “thank you,”...
