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• Interview with Michael Farrell of Australia’s National Drug and Alcohol...

  

  On prisons, pot, and the DSM-V. (The “Five-Question Interview” series.) Our latest participant is Professor Michael Farrell, director of the National Drug and... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY

• Book Review: Addiction Noir

  

  The Next Right Thing by Dan Barden To date, I’ve only reviewed one novel here at Addiction Inbox—Steve Earle’s I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive,... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Interview with Dr. Bankole Johnson of the University of Virginia

  

  Tailoring addiction medicine to fit the disease. (The “Five-Question Interview” series.) 25 years ago, when Dr. Bankole Johnson first began giving lectures... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY

• PROMETA™ Postmortem

  

  How the latest miracle cure for addiction failed to deliver. PROMETA™: Last seen going down fast, smoke pouring from all engines. Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY

• The Future of Addiction Treatment

  

  Is there some way out of here? Addictions are chronic diseases. They may require a lifetime of treatment. After a number of severe episodes of alcohol or drug... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY

• “When Did I Become the Junkie Auntie Mame?”

  

  Courtney Love tells her tangled tale in a new e-book. Maer Roshan, author of Courtney Comes Clean: The High Life and Dark Depths of Music’s Most Controversial... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY

• Army Doctor Sees Victory, and a Dangerous Drug Bites the Dust—Almost.

  

  An interview with the man who blew the whistle on the neurotoxic malaria drug in the U.S. Army’s kit bag. A dangerous malaria drug invented by the Army and... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY

• Book Review: Writers On The Edge

  

  A compendium of tough prose and poetry about addiction. Here’s a book I’m delighted to promote unabashedly. I even wrote a jacket blurb for it. Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2012 BOOKS, PSYCHOLOGY

• Reward and Punish: Say Hello to Dopamine’s Leetle Friend

  

  Dopamine recruits a helper to track drug rewards. Ah, dopamine. Whenever it seems like researchers have finally gotten a bead on how that tricky molecule... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Heroin in Vietnam: The Robins Study Reexamined

  

  How everything we knew about heroin was wrong. Editor's note: The famous Robins study on heroin use among Vietnam veterans has been so often—and so... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2012 HISTORY, PSYCHOLOGY

• Mike Doughty Talks About “The Book of Drugs”

  

  Former Soul Coughing front man on sobriety and life as a solo artist. Over the phone, Mike Doughty doesn’t have much to say about his former band, Soul Coughing... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Interview with Howard Shaffer, Director of the Division on Addiction at Harvard

  

  Defining addiction, making research more transparent, and dealing with the DSM-V (The “Five-Question Interview” series.) Like many incredibly busy people, Dr.... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Brain Scans and Addiction Research: The Early Years

  

  X-ray specs for drug effects. The science of addiction and the technology of brain scans have both developed exponentially in the past two decades. The... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Drug for Head Lice and Heartworm Shows Promise Against Alcohol Abuse

  

  Unlikely candidate helps alcohol-dependent mice cut back on the sauce. Say what you will about glutamate-gated chloride channels in the parasitic nematode... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Few Words About Glutamate

  

  Meet another major player in the biology of addiction. The workhorse neurotransmitter glutamate, made from glutamine, the brain’s most abundant amino acid, has... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Economic Cost of Heavy Drinking

  

  Some food, or rather, some drink for thought. A recently released study conducted for the CDC Foundation estimates that the economic costs of excessive... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2011 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Are You Okay?

  

  A variety of drinking tests: the good, the bad, and the silly. Here’s a short, no-nonsense questionnaire that uses your weekly drinking habits to produce an... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2011 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A 12 Days of Christmas Blog Meme

  

  Wrapping it up. From DrugMonkey’s blog: “The rules for this blog meme are quite simple. Post the link and first sentence from the first blog entry for each mont... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2011 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Heavy Drinking Impairs Serotonin Function More Rapidly in Women

  

  My article on women and alcohol. There are very real gender differences in the way men and women are affected by alcohol. Here's a summary of the... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2011 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Six-Pack of Prior Posts

  

  Don’t fear the chemistry. This isn’t a top 10 list, just a compilation of five previous posts here at Addiction Inbox that have continued to draw reader... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2011 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY