Showing posts with label drugs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drugs. Show all posts
Friday, May 27, 2016

Revised Drug Wheel

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Know your chemicals.
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Monday, April 4, 2016

Know Your Powders

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Friday, October 9, 2015

The Zendo Project

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The Zendo Project
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Addiction Trajectories: Book Review

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Striving for that elusive middle ground. For a journalist who covers neuroscience, the political and psychoanalytic focus of anthropolo...
Monday, February 4, 2013

Science On the Web and In the Flesh

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Thoughts on the ScienceOnline2013 conference. As a blogger, I write about the science-based investigation of drugs and addiction—but I ...
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Friday, November 16, 2012

NIH Director Calls Off NIDA-NIAAA Merger

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Nation’s addiction research institutes to remain separate but unequal. Two years ago, the National Institutes of Health’s Scientific Ma...
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

The Encultured Brain: A Book Review

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How biology and culture jointly define us. Anyone who follows academia knows that the broad category of courses known as the Liberal Ar...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

The Empty Seat at the Holiday Table

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Mothers and the War on Drugs. Guest post by Gretchen Burns Bergman Gretchen Burns Bergman is Co-Founder and Executive Director of A New...
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Thursday, September 15, 2011

What Do We Mean When We Talk About Craving?

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An essay on drug addiction and need. For years, craving was represented by the tortured tremors and sweaty nightmares of extreme heroin a...
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Friday, July 22, 2011

Drug Links, Various

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It’s summer vacation. Did I turn off the stove? Some recent posts I wrote before ending my run as editor of TheFix.com News Blog: Dru...
Monday, October 6, 2008

John McCain and Ambien

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Is he sleep-driving through the campaign? After the last three weeks of erratic and unpredictable behavior from presidential candidate John ...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

A View From the Other Side: What Disease?

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A psychiatrist takes issue with the semantics of addictive disease in SLATE . See "Medical Misnomer: Addiction isn't a brain diseas...
Saturday, July 14, 2007

What's Wrong With This Picture?

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A bit of cognitive dissonance, perhaps? The situation could easily be reversed, but cigarette manufacturers mostly advertise in magazines, n...
Tuesday, July 10, 2007

European Tree Yields New Alcoholism Treatment in Early Tests

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Anti-Smoking Drug Also Curbs Alcohol Craving A drug approved last year for smoking cessation has also shown promise for use against alcoholi...
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Fearing Medicine

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By Dirk Hanson Have Americans become afraid of their doctors? Once upon a time, Americans went to their doctors to get pills. Doctors compla...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

New World Nicotine: A Brief History

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“Drinking the Smoke” The prototypically North American contribution to the world drug trade has always been tobacco. Tobacco pipes have been...
Thursday, June 21, 2007

Drug Rehab in China

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After two years of a nationwide “people’s war” against drug addiction in China, government authorities are claiming major accomplishments—b...
Sunday, May 13, 2007

Is Marijuana Addictive?

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The argument continues. For more, see Marijuana Withdrawal . See also Marijuana Withdrawal Revisited Marijuana may not be a life-threatening...
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Saturday, March 24, 2007

Pot For Alzheimer's?

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An enzyme responsible for the malformed proteins characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease may be better suppressed by marijuana than by any oth...
Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Vaccinating Against Vices

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Developing a pill or a vaccine for a specific drug addiction has long been one of the tantalizing potential rewards of addiction research. N...