#Addiction congress

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Addiction therapy is a crucial component in the recovery process, providing individuals with the tools and support needed to overcome substance use disorders. It typically involves a combination of behavioral therapies, counseling, and support groups, tailored to each person's unique needs. These therapies help individuals understand the underlying causes of their addiction, develop coping strategies, and build a supportive network for lasting recovery. Effective addiction therapy not only addresses the physical aspects of dependence but also focuses on emotional and psychological healing, empowering individuals to reclaim their lives and achieve long-term sobriety.

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mental health and addiction funding on the federal chopping block https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5342368/addiction-trump-mental-health-funding

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I’m cheating on the book I’m reading by ordering even more books

[simonh]

Science of Compliance: Behavioral Research In Clinical Trials by National Library of Medicine Via Flickr: Alternate Title(s): Behavioral research in clinical trials Contributor(s): Gordis, Enoch, 1931- National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Medical Arts and Photography Branch. NIH Reunion Task Force. Compliance/Adherence Working Group. Publication: [Bethesda, Md. : Medical Arts and Photography Branch, National Institutes of Health, 1993] Language(s): English Format: Still image Subject(s): Alcoholism, Behavioral Research, Clinical Trials as Topic Genre(s): Posters Abstract: White poster with black print. Visual image consists of wavy strips of pink, blue, yellow, green, deep pink, and gray, the two shades of pink being much wider than the others. Details of the lecture are given along with the topic to be discussed--addictive diseases, alcoholism. Extent: 1 photomechanical print (poster) : 67 x 42 cm. Technique: color NLM Unique ID: 101456175 NLM Image ID: C02940 Permanent Link: resource.nlm.nih.gov/101456175

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Ad-tech targeting is an existential threat

I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel PICKS AND SHOVELS. Catch me TORONTO on SUNDAY (Feb 23) at Another Story Books, and in NYC on WEDNESDAY (26 Feb) with JOHN HODGMAN. More tour dates here.

The commercial surveillance industry is almost totally unregulated. Data brokers, ad-tech, and everyone in between – they harvest, store, analyze, sell and rent every intimate, sensitive, potentially compromising fact about your life.

Late last year, I testified at a Consumer Finance Protection Bureau hearing about a proposed new rule to kill off data brokers, who are the lynchpin of the industry:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/16/the-second-best-time-is-now/#the-point-of-a-system-is-what-it-does

The other witnesses were fascinating – and chilling, There was a lawyer from the AARP who explained how data-brokers would let you target ads to categories like "seniors with dementia." Then there was someone from the Pentagon, discussing how anyone could do an ad-buy targeting "people enlisted in the armed forces who have gambling problems." Sure, I thought, and you don't even need these explicit categories: if you served an ad to "people 25-40 with Ivy League/Big Ten law or political science degrees within 5 miles of Congress," you could serve an ad with a malicious payload to every Congressional staffer.

Now, that's just the data brokers. The real action is in ad-tech, a sector dominated by two giant companies, Meta and Google. These companies claim that they are better than the unregulated data-broker cowboys at the bottom of the food-chain. They say they're responsible wielders of unregulated monopoly surveillance power. Reader, they are not.

Meta has been repeatedly caught offering ad-targeting like "depressed teenagers" (great for your next incel recruiting drive):

https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/05/01/105987/is-facebook-targeting-ads-at-sad-teens/

And Google? They just keep on getting caught with both hands in the creepy commercial surveillance cookie-jar. Today, Wired's Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra report on a way to use Google to target people with chronic illnesses, people in financial distress, and national security "decision makers":

https://www.wired.com/story/google-dv360-banned-audience-segments-national-security/

Google doesn't offer these categories itself, they just allow data-brokers to assemble them and offer them for sale via Google. Just as it's possible to generate a target of "Congressional staffers" by using location and education data, it's possible to target people with chronic illnesses based on things like whether they regularly travel to clinics that treat HIV, asthma, chronic pain, etc.

Google claims that this violates their policies, and that they have best-of-breed technical measures to prevent this from happening, but when Wired asked how this data-broker was able to sell these audiences – including people in menopause, or with "chronic pain, fibromyalgia, psoriasis, arthritis, high cholesterol, and hypertension" – Google did not reply.

The data broker in the report also sold access to people based on which medications they took (including Ambien), people who abuse opioids or are recovering from opioid addiction, people with endocrine disorders, and "contractors with access to restricted US defense-related technologies."

It's easy to see how these categories could enable blackmail, spear-phishing, scams, malvertising, and many other crimes that threaten individuals, groups, and the nation as a whole. The US Office of Naval Intelligence has already published details of how "anonymous" people targeted by ads can be identified:

https://www.odni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ODNI-Declassified-Report-on-CAI-January2022.pdf

The most amazing part is how the 33,000 targeting segments came to public light: an activist just pretended to be an ad buyer, and the data-broker sent him the whole package, no questions asked. Johnny Ryan is a brilliant Irish privacy activist with the Irish Council for Civil Liberties. He created a fake data analytics website for a company that wasn't registered anywhere, then sent out a sales query to a brokerage (the brokerage isn't identified in the piece, to prevent bad actors from using it to attack targeted categories of people).

Foreign states, including China – a favorite boogeyman of the US national security establishment – can buy Google's data and target users based on Google ad-tech stack. In the past, Chinese spies have used malvertising – serving targeted ads loaded with malware – to attack their adversaries. Chinese firms spend billions every year to target ads to Americans:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/business/google-meta-temu-shein.html

Google and Meta have no meaningful checks to prevent anyone from establishing a shell company that buys and targets ads with their services, and the data-brokers that feed into those services are even less well-protected against fraud and other malicious act.

All of this is only possible because Congress has failed to act on privacy since 1988. That's the year that Congress passed the Video Privacy Protection Act, which bans video store clerks from telling the newspapers which VHS cassettes you have at home. That's also the last time Congress passed a federal consumer privacy law:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act

The legislative history of the VPPA is telling: it was passed after a newspaper published the leaked video-rental history of a far-right judge named Robert Bork, whom Reagan hoped to elevate to the Supreme Court. Bork failed his Senate confirmation hearings, but not because of his video rentals (he actually had pretty good taste in movies). Rather, it was because he was a Nixonite criminal and virulent loudmouth racist whose record was strewn with the most disgusting nonsense imaginable).

But the leak of Bork's video-rental history gave Congress the cold grue. His video rental history wasn't embarrassing, but it sure seemed like Congress had some stuff in its video-rental records that they didn't want voters finding out about. They beat all land-speed records in making it a crime to tell anyone what kind of movies they (and we) were watching.

And that was it. For 37 years, Congress has completely failed to pass another consumer privacy law. Which is how we got here – to this moment where you can target ads to suicidal teens, gambling addicted soldiers in Minuteman silos, grannies with Alzheimer's, and every Congressional staffer on the Hill.

Some people think the problem with mass surveillance is a kind of machine-driven, automated mind-control ray. They believe the self-aggrandizing claims of tech bros to have finally perfected the elusive mind-control ray, using big data and machine learning.

But you don't need to accept these outlandish claims – which come from Big Tech's sales literature, wherein they boast to potential advertisers that surveillance ads are devastatingly effective – to understand how and why this is harmful. If you're struggling with opioid addiction and I target an ad to you for a fake cure or rehab center, I haven't brainwashed you – I've just tricked you. We don't have to believe in mind-control to believe that targeted lies can cause unlimited harms.

And those harms are indeed grave. Stein's Law predicts that "anything that can't go on forever eventually stops." Congress's failure on privacy has put us all at risk – including Congress. It's only a matter of time until the commercial surveillance industry is responsible for a massive leak, targeted phishing campaign, or a ghastly national security incident involving Congress. Perhaps then we will get action.

In the meantime, the coalition of people whose problems can be blamed on the failure to update privacy law continues to grow. That coalition includes protesters whose identities were served up to cops, teenagers who were tracked to out-of-state abortion clinics, people of color who were discriminated against in hiring and lending, and anyone who's been harassed with deepfake porn:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/06/privacy-first/#but-not-just-privacy

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/20/privacy-first-second-third/#malvertising

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[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

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He can now turn the money flow for all government payouts on or off at will. All the money disbursements from all Federal Departments and agencies run through him. He can make any payment in any amount to whoever he chooses for any reason. He can block any payment to anyone at anytime, whether it be a social security payment to a citizen or money owed to a federal contractor. He can shut off payments to any department or branch of the government he chooses. He can put individuals, departments, or contractors on permanent np pay lists.

He can shut off money to your local school department or shut off all monies earmarked for your entire state. If he doesn’t like what an agency is doing he can immediately shut it down. If an individual citizen or individual government employee runs afoul of him he can cut off their checks. Conversely he can reward any agency or any private or public figure he chooses.

I don’t think anyone grasps how serious this is. He literally has control over the entire government and everyone and everything dependent on it. A madman hopped up on Ketamine now can dictate everything to every individual, agency, municipality, state, or elected official in the country.

Donald Trump has made Elon Musk the Dictator of America and we are all at his mercy. This is highly illegal and even the courts told Trump he could not stop federal payments or re-allocate money already designated by Congress there is nobody to stop him. He literally seized the spigot that controls the flow of money. Nothing like this has ever happened in the history of the world. Two deranged drug addicted billionaires can destroy anyone and anyone through the power of the government purse. This is unprecedented and we are no longer a true democracy but a fascist oligarchy.

The media needs to make clear to the public just what the implications of this are but so far few are even mentioning it.

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International Conference on

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latest political scandal in Spain if anyone's interested is that the spokesperson for the big progressive and feminist party has been accused by many women of being "psychopathic", "abusive", "sex addict", and a "manipulator" (quoting because that's the women's words, not that I'm scare-quoting). Anyway so he (Iñigo Errejón) stepped down this Thursday from every political position including his seat in Congress. The testimonials from the various accusations (some of which are more than a year old!) paint a horrible picture and it does look like he's a horrible person and raging misogynist. But do you know what the party (Sumar) decided to implement? They're going to get their party members to go through education courses. Do you think the party's spokesperson wasn't already educated? that one of the most prominent feminist men in the country didn't know enough about feminism? This is what happens when you treat misogyny as if it were a simple consequence of ignorance. Errejón was perfectly knowledgeable on feminism, the issue is very clearly that he was able to abuse that position of power to hurt many women, and even while the party was aware (because they had been aware for a long while), they protected him through obscurity. And the reason such a misogynist managed to get all the way up to being one of the most visible heads of the party is because their feminism, bourgeois feminism, is nothing but a tool. If they really had the interests of working women at heart they would not have protected him for the good of the party, and if they really did work towards a better country for women, a blatant misogynist would not be able to climb so high and be coddled by everyone else at the top.

[warningsine]

Oh, boy.

The child labor (a la Miss Huang, it makes sense that Harmony was indoctrinated as a kid given the way she treated the Eagans as deities),

the personal motivations (a sick mother, as it turns out)

and that Harmony would have something on the Eagans,

I'd expected.

What I hadn't expected? That she's the literal inventor of Severance. (It makes you wonder: how many times did "geniuses" like Musk, Bezos and Jobs sell others' ideas as their own?) That explains why she's so interested in whether the chip really works (with Mark and Gemma) and the reintegration process (Petey, now Mark and of course, Reghabi herself). That's why she didn't trust the Board in season 1.

"I haven't done this [inhale ether] since I was eight," says Harmony.

Interesting that dietyl ether sounds a bit like Dieter (if you squint), Kier's imaginary brother (and his own version of an innie maybe? See: "they're fucking animals"), by the way.

No wonder Kier was prone to hallucinations given that's where he met his wife. Had he been inhaling that shit too...Flights of brilliance, I'm sure.

And it makes sense that the Severance technology untied their hands: it's a better way to keep their workers obedient since ether (which is addictive and dangerous) would eventually become too much of a PR disaster.

How many towns did Lumon ruin with ether?

And if Severance is causing discourse in the Congress (as it should), then wait 'till they learn about Lumon's "child fucking labor."

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He was saying that voting as harm reduction is not a good metaphor, at least not for the people of Palestine. Trump can't do any worse than committing genocide because the Dems are already doing it quietly, he's just louder about it. We vote Kamala in and things will continue as they are, but we'll be happy because our rights are maintained. If Trump gets into office, people will live in discontent and be forced to protest against the Dem's liability and thus, their complicity in genocide

Dude, that is not how anything works.

For starters, Palestine is one of many places in the world and saying it's the only place that matters? is batshit.

Second, there was a whole hell of a lot of protesting under Trump and all of it was to keep things from getting worse. Obamacare is deeply flawed, but because Trump was president and the GOP controlled Congress, we had to fight like hell just to not lose it. If we have a Democratic President and Congress we can push to move forward. With a Republican administration we will push as hard as we can to limit the damage and we will fail on all kinds of fronts.

Third, the US government does not actually control the actions of foreign governments. There's a lot of other people in the world and they all have agency. The US President cannot fix the world by fiat even if they wanted to.

I am voting for Democrats - Harris/Walz, Ilhan Omar and Amy Klobuchar, nationally, because I believe those people will work to make life better for everyone. Their Republican opponents are going to try to make Minnesota, and the rest of the world less safe for trans people, people who can get pregnant, immigrants and refugees, Black people, and, to come back to the typical usage of harm reduction, drug addicts. Everyone who isn't a billionaire will suffer under a Republican government. Voting for Democrats is, on every level, an effort to reduce harm for everyone.

Harm reduction isn't a metaphor, it is literally what we are doing here.

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Veterans’ health care


A 1996 law set eligibility requirements for military veterans to receive hospital, medical and nursing home care and authorized spending for those services and patient enrollment. That law has not been renewed, but Congress regularly allocates additional Department of Veterans Affairs funding and allows benefits to increase automatically based on inflation. VA provides medical care to more than 9.1 million enrolled veterans, according to the agency.
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Drug development and opioid addiction treatment

Most of this spending relates to the bipartisan 21st Century Cures Act of 2016. That law provided money to the National Institutes of Health and Food and Drug Administration to modernize pharmaceutical research and medical trials. It funded research for cancer cures and state-level grants for opioid addiction and other substance abuse treatment.


​State Department

In 2003, Congress passed the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, which set policy priorities and created spending authority for the State Department. That law has not been renewed, but Congress every year since has passed annual funding bills for the department, which Trump has announced he’ll nominate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) to run.


​Housing assistance

President Bill Clinton in 1998 signed the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act, which overhauled federal housing assistance policies, including voucher programs and other antipoverty assistance. The Department of Housing and Urban Development and other agencies continue using this law to implement federal housing programs.


​Justice Department

In 1994, Congress passed the landmark Violence Against Women Act and has renewed it multiple times since. In 2006, lawmakers packaged a VAWA renewal with authorizing legislation for the Justice Department. As with the State Department, Congress has not approved new authorizing legislation for the Justice Department since, but it has funded the agency — and even authorized hundreds of millions of dollars more for a new FBI headquarters — every year.


​Education spending

The 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act delegated power to state and local education officials to set primary and secondary education achievement standards. It gives billions of dollars in federal grant money to state and local education officials to fund schools and school districts. Those standards are still used by the Education Department, even though the legislation has not been reauthorized. Trump has suggested he’d like to eliminate the entire department.

NASA

Stripping funding for NASA, which was last reauthorized in 2017, could spell doom for Musk’s commercial spaceflight firm, SpaceX. The company has contracts worth more than $4 billion — including for return trips to the moon and retiring the International Space Station — linked to programs approved in the 2017 law.


​Health-care and student loan programs

What’s known as the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was actually passed in two separate bills in 2010. The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act represents the second bill, which included some tax revisions and technical changes to the ACA. The law has not been reauthorized since, but the Department of Health and Human Services reported in March that more than 45 million people have health insurance coverage backed by the Affordable Care Act.

The law that made those final tweaks to the ACA also overhauled the Education Department’s student loan program. Where some schools relied on private lenders to issue federally backed loans, with this law, the government itself became the lender. That change has since enabled President Joe Biden to offer student loan debt relief, though many of his most ambitious policies have been blocked by the courts. Student loans are generally funded through mandatory spending — similar to social safety net programs such as Medicare and Social Security — and not subject to annual spending laws.


​International security programs

The 1985 International Security and Development Cooperation Act bundled together authorizations for a number of international security programs, including funding and regulations for arms sales to allies, economic aid for developing countries, airport security, anti-narcotics-trafficking policies, the Peace Corps and more. This Reagan-era law continues to be foundational to congressional funding and federal policy.


​Head Start

Head Start provides preschool education for children from low-income families. In the 2023 fiscal year, more than 800,000 children enrolled in Head Start programs, according to the National Head Start Association. The program also helped place more than 530,000 parents in jobs, school or job-training programs. It was last authorized in 2007.

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[fullhalalalchemist]

🚨🚨🚨Congress hiding behind "protecting" LGBTQ+ to push for censorship bills that would harm us

May 8, 2023

The EARN IT Act isn't the only bill Congress is rushing through this session that's secret goal is to censor and surveil Americans, especially queer ones.

KOSA (s.1409), or the Kid's Online Safety Act, is being hailed across the mainstream media and congress as the best bill to "protect children online from algorithmic harm" by essentially, blocking content that gives minors anxiety, depression, eating and substance abuse disorders, online bullying and harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse, suicidal behaviors, and addiction. It's gives the FTC, who are politically appointed by the president, and all 50 state attorney generals enforcement power to do this. As long as they can justify a website 'harmed' a minor by having content that leads to 'anxiety, sexual exploitation, and suicidal behaviors', they will push lawsuit over lawsuit to that site until it censors that content for the minor.

Oh, but that's not it, either. HOW will websites determine who is and isn't a minor? Well don't worry, because the bill says "age verification isn't required". That however does nothing to stop websites from pushing age verification. When they're about to be held liable and sued for millions, when there's an age verification lobby that has pushed these bills successfully in half the states, when websites should know "reasonably" that theres a minor, they are GOING to go for age verification. Multiple experts agree that this would happen.

Last year, nearly 100+ LGBT and human rights orgs sent a letter opposing KOSA. They were ignored and Senator Blumenthal (same guy who is pushing the EARN IT Act) met with different orgs to "update the language". Except nothing in the update language changes any of it's impact. Sure, they removed "grooming" from being a target of this bill and instead are focusing on "mental health". Except, the Missouri Attorneys General, in his emergency order banning gender affirming care, cited a number of medical studies effectively claiming that access to gender affirming care is causing young people to experience mental health issues. They will use ANY excuse to censor content.

This is the tumblr purge 2.0 but for the entire internet. It's just as bad as the EARN IT Act. And it has IMMENSE levels of support. You have the national Eating Disorder Coalition, child advocacy orgs, the freaking American Psychological Association, LIZZO!!!! supporting this. It needs IMMENSE levels of backlash from us, the grassroots, the people.

The best way to fight back is to CALL YOUR SENATORS. It's now going to go to the commerce committee for markup, after it will head to a vote. This is going to be fasttracked and most likely voted on this month or June. It's all hands on deck.

Link to call script to read off alongside numbers to call:

A bunch of petitions you can sign (takes less than 5 min)

Open Letter Against KOSA

Petition 1

Petition 2

Petition 3

Petition 4

Resistbot: Text PHJDYH to 50409

And more information here: Linktree

This is a great TLDR article to read: Vox Article

TLDR; Congress's new bill KOSA that has an immense amount of bipartisan support will lead to internet censorship by giving all state attorney generals, even the ones in Texas and Florida, power to sue websites for "harmful" content and decide what is "dangerous" for minors, force websites to make you upload your govt ID online, and lead to widespread abuse of queer youth. We have to fight back NOW or else we will see an internet-wide purge of any adult and queer content online, globally.

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

“Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter. From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department’s decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted. Without aggravating factors like use in a crime, multiple purchases, or buying a weapon as a straw purchaser, people are almost never brought to trial on felony charges solely for how they filled out a gun form. Those who were late paying their taxes because of serious addictions, but paid them back subsequently with interest and penalties, are typically given non-criminal resolutions. It is clear that Hunter was treated differently.

The charges in his cases came about only after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my election. Then, a carefully negotiated plea deal, agreed to by the Department of Justice, unraveled in the court room — with a number of my political opponents in Congress taking credit for bringing political pressure on the process. Had the plea deal held, it would have been a fair, reasonable resolution of Hunter’s cases.

No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son — and that is wrong. There has been an effort to break Hunter — who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me — and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough.

For my entire career I have followed a simple principle: just tell the American people the truth. They’ll be fair-minded. Here’s the truth: I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice — and once I made this decision this weekend, there was no sense in delaying it further. I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision.”

👏👏👏

[pshychiatrysummit]

International Conference on

Addiction Therapy

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Participants at this Addiction Therapy Congress can expect a vibrant, two-day experience complete with scientific presentations, networking opportunities, and collaborative engagements with visionary organizations in the field of addiction therapy. The specific sessions designed under the Addiction Congress framework will focus on breakthroughs in drug addiction conference discussions and present innovative recovery models and therapeutic strategies.

The major highlight will be the merge of Addiction Therapy Conferences with Psychiatry and Addiction Conferences, to encourage the synthesis of psychiatric care with holistic and evidence-based therapies for addiction. International Conference on Addiction Therapy 2025 is going to be one of the greatest events in the Addiction Symposium, supporting necessary discussions over new techniques for recovery and focusing on recent breakthroughs shared by top authorities in the field.

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