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Dirk Hanson

Articles and health studies about drugs, addiction and alcoholism, including the most recent scientific and medical findings.

Showing posts with label disease model. Show all posts

Showing posts with label disease model. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Addressing Criticisms of the Disease Model

Volkow, Koob, and McLellan on the neurobiology of addiction. The New England Journal of Medicine recently published a review articl...

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Drugs and Disease: A Look Forward

First published 2/18/2014. Former National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) director Alan Leshner has been vilified by many for referring...

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Addicts and Disease

Commentary. Former National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) director Alan Leshner has been vilified by many for referring to addiction...

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Does Brain Research Obscure Addiction’s Root Causes?

Did Dickens Get It Right? Breathe the polluted air, foul with every impurity that is poisonous to health and life; and have every s...

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Ivan Oransky on the Disease Model at TEDMED 2012

What we think about when we think about “disease.” It’s a safe bet that the number of M.D.s who have made a mid-career switch to journali...

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