Showing posts with label addiction science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label addiction science. Show all posts
Monday, February 3, 2014

The Anthropology of Addiction

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Can we ever integrate neuroscience and social science? Bielefeld, Germany— The last in a series of posts about a recent conference, Ne...
Sunday, December 8, 2013

Hazelden Offers Companion to the “Big Book”

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New guide attempts a modest AA update. The founders of AA published their book, Alcoholics Anonymous (The Big Book) back in 1939. The ...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Addiction Books For the Beach

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When 50 Shades of Grey doesn’t cut it. The Science of Addiction: From Neurobiology to Treatment Carlton K. Erickson 312 pages Pub...
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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Random Notes from the College on Problems of Drug Dependence

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Opening day addresses at the annual meeting. (These are notes on research in progress, not findings written in stone). --NIDA director ...
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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Addiction Doctors Pick Top Ten Journal Articles

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A screen for problem gambling, medications for insomniac alcoholics, and more. A group of addiction doctors presented a Top Ten Lis...
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Sunday, April 8, 2012

From Their Mouth to Your Ear: Researchers Talk Drugs

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A collection of five-question interviews. I’ll be away from the Addiction Inbox office this week, attending the big TEDMED health ...
Monday, July 25, 2011

Essay: The Genuine Drug War is in Biomedicine

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Knowledge, not firepower, is the key to the future. In modern American society, heart disease, cancer, HIV\AIDS, diabetes, alcoholism, an...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011

NIDA on Drugs, Brain, and Behavior

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How Science Has Revolutionized the Understanding of Drug Addiction. Addiction to alcohol, nicotine, and other drugs costs Americans as mu...
Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Noteworthy Recent Posts on Drugs and the Brain

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A few good articles. Teasing Out the Effects of Environment on the Brain. By Moheb Costandi The Dana Foundation Antidepressants: Are They...
Sunday, August 30, 2009

My Interview with Santa Fe Public Radio

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Addiction science gets a little air time. Been doing some publicity for my book, The Chemical Carousel . This radio interview with Diego Mul...
Tuesday, July 7, 2009

What’s a Neurotransmitter, Anyway?

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A brief guide for the perplexed. A neurotransmitter is a chemical substance that carries impulses from one nerve cell to another. Neurotrans...
Thursday, November 29, 2007

Naloxone and “Receptorology”

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The power of the opiates revealed The breakthrough that laid the groundwork for the first truly scientific understanding of addictive drugs ...