Showing posts with label drug addiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drug addiction. Show all posts
Sunday, July 20, 2014

Drugs and Disease: A Look Forward

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First published 2/18/2014. Former National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) director Alan Leshner has been vilified by many for referring...
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

What Mark Kleiman Wants You To Know About Drugs

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The public policy guru guiding state legalization efforts. Mark A. R. Kleiman is the Professor of Public Policy at UCLA, editor of the ...
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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 ...
Thursday, December 8, 2011

Nothing Organic About Rodale’s New Book on Addiction

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Raw carrots won’t cut it. How times have changed. You’ve heard of Rodale, the outfit that kicked off organic gardening in America, and pu...
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Sunday, May 8, 2011

Falling Down and Getting Up: Nic Sheff’s New Addiction Book

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  Sheff jumps back on the carousel, lives to tell about it. What would it be like to have written a drug memoir and an autobiography befo...
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Monday, July 12, 2010

Drug Wars Increase Drug Violence

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 Homicides rise with anti-drug expenditures. In a large review of studies evaluating the association between drug law enforcement and viol...
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Sunday, January 31, 2010

The Three-Headed Dragon

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A symbol of need.  Getting off drugs, or learning to stop drinking, is very often easier than staying off them. As Mark Twain remarked abo...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Addiction Assumptions: Denial

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Is denial always part of the deal? Maybe denial really IS just a river in Egypt. Lorraine T. Midanik, dean of the School of Social Welfare a...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

NIDA'S Updated Guide Book Emphasizes Science

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Drug addiction treatment trends. Favoring objective medicine over moral exhortation, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has updated...
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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Drug Addicts Punished in New York Prisons

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Drug offenders get “the box” instead of treatment. The common practice of placing drug addicts in “disciplinary segregation” for drug use v...
Sunday, March 8, 2009

Drug Research and the Recovery Act of 2009

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What's in the budget for addiction scientists? Scientists were among the likely beneficiaries of President Obama’s American Recovery and...
Sunday, October 19, 2008

Stone Age Drug Paraphernalia

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Ceramic bowls and tubes discovered--but what were they sniffing? Archeologists have never doubted that prehistoric man liked to get high. Pr...
Sunday, October 5, 2008

Recovery and Stigma

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Jason Schwartz at Addiction and Recovery News has a similar reaction to the happy spin SAMHSA put on its recent survey: Addiction and Recov...
Saturday, October 4, 2008

Addiction: The Stigma Lives On

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Would you live next door to a drug addict? A telephone survey by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), a ...
Saturday, September 20, 2008

Cindy McCain’s Drug Addiction

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She’s no Betty Ford. In 1989, Cindy McCain had back surgery for ruptured disks. By her own admission, she became addicted to powerful painki...