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Occam’s Razor and the industries of addiction

Posted on 09/12/2024

As I wrote last year, in  Portraying Abstinence Recovery as Puritanical Is in the Interest of Those Who Sell Addictive Drugs, industries selling addictive drugs have long targeted high-risk groups including youth and people in recovery, Bill Stauffer reminds us. They simply do what makes the most money: Occam’s razor.

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