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Recursive Adaptation

Strategic science and policy for mental health and addiction. Completely free.

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Making a non-opioid painkiller available to everyone would save Medicare and Medicaid $14.9B and prevent hundreds of thousands of new addictions

Suzetrigine is sitting on the shelf waiting for its patent to expire, while hundreds of thousands of new opioid addictions are being caused by unnecessary opioid prescriptions

Addiction is like an iceberg: most of the harms are below the surface

A visualization of the direct and downstream effects of addiction.

How can government drive more medication development for addiction? Our work in DC.

Our work in DC: CASPR gets FDA acceleration language for SUD into the House Appropriations Committee report.

The FDA and a breakthrough for drug repurposing efforts

CASPR's HILT policy proposal and the FDA

New semaglutide for alcohol use disorder trial shows big drops in drinking

Once-weekly semaglutide versus placebo in patients with alcohol use disorder and comorbid obesity: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (Lancet)

CASPR is hiring

Director of Research, Director of Policy, and Policy Lead

First ever 50-state ranking of online gambling safety

See your state's report card and ranking, from Montana at #1 to Delaware at #50.

2026 is the year DraftKings will face serious opposition for the first time

Online gambling is the new tobacco: the public is realizing they've been scammed.

By making suzetrigine cheap, we could cut opioid prescriptions in half

A win / win / win deal for the public, the government, and the drugmaker can cut the Gordian knot of pain prescription tradeoffs.

NIH High Leverage Trials (HILT) Proposal

Large-scale Research for Repurposing and Supplements