Showing posts with label heroin addiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heroin addiction. Show all posts
Monday, December 2, 2013

Addiction in the Spotlight at Neuroscience 2013

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Testing treatments for nicotine, heroin, and gambling addiction. Several addiction studies were among the highlights at last month’s an...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Prohibition in Perspective

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An essay on the Harrison Narcotic Act of 1914. As the 20th Century began, America’s drinking habits were undergoing a thorough review. Bu...
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Monday, May 30, 2011

Steve Earle and the Ghost of Hank Williams

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Book Review: I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive Musician Steve Earle made a solo name for himself with Guitar Town and Copperhead Ro...
Sunday, October 24, 2010

A New/Old Treatment for Opiate Addiction

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  Gov makes naltrexone legit for heroin. Last week, the government officially sanctioned the use of naltrexone, trade name Vivitrol, for u...
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Saturday, July 24, 2010

Heroin in Vietnam: The Robins Study

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Origins of the Disease Model of Addiction (Part 2). In 1971, under the direction of Dr. Jerome Jaffe of the Special Action Office on Drug ...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Drug Abuse Coverage Leaves Out the Science

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How the media covers harm reduction. Lewis Mehl-Madrona, a graduate of the Stanford University School of Medicine, recently wrote a piece ...
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Friday, February 12, 2010

A Seaside Story of Love and Junkies

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Documentary airs today on VBS.TV A reminder that drug addiction is always, at bottom, about real people in the real world: The online vide...
Thursday, December 10, 2009

Addicted to Bad Reporting

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How should we cover drug dependence? Journalists usually learn it early: Drug stories are crime stories. Articles about alcoholism and as...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Heroin for Heroin Addiction

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Getting your fix at the doctor’s office. A group of Canadian researchers has demonstrated the truth of a practice commonly used in European ...
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

How Brain Science Began

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Civilization’s debt to opium. The history of brain science probably began about 4,000 B.C., somewhere in Sumeria, when human beings first di...
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Thursday, December 13, 2007

Heroin Overdose Kits: The Debate Goes On

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More states back naloxone programs, but Feds aren’t convinced. Since the first trial run in Chicago several years ago, efforts to provide he...
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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 ...
Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Overdose Kits for Heroin Addicts

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Massachusetts to offer Narcan nasal spray Noting that heroin overdoses kill more people in Massachusetts each year than firearms, Dr. Peter ...
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