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LATEST ARTICLES ( 312 )

• New Addiction/Recovery Web Site

  

  Daily news blog is part of "The Fix." I’m pleased to announce that I'll be writing and editing a new blog, “This Just In,” for the recently-launched addiction... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2011 HEALTH, MEDICINE, PSYCHOLOGY

• LSD Flashbacks

  

  Evidence for “hallucinogen persisting perception disorder.” After taking a dose of mescaline in 1898, the writer Havelock Ellis reported that he experienced a... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2011 HEALTH, MEDICINE, PSYCHOLOGY

• A River of Rage and Redemption

  

  An interview with writer James Brown. “Who could blame a reader, after James Frey's discredited 'A Million Little Pieces,' for being skeptical of the pyrotechni... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2011 BOOKS, CULTURE, HEALTH

• The Ghost in the Receptor

  

  The “spiritual” thing. It often seems as if the proponents of the biological view are offering a take-it-or-leave-it view of human nature and behavior. The... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2011 HEALTH, SPIRITUALITY

• The “Broken Bone” Model of Addiction Treatment

  

  A word about chronic illnesses. It’s not always easy to conceive of addiction as a complex disease—but it’s getting easier. There are certain similarities... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2011 HEALTH, MEDICINE, PSYCHOLOGY

• Treadmill Rehab

  

  The curious connection between exercise and getting high. A Vanderbilt study published in the journal PLoS ONE has confirmed what readers of Addiction Inbox hav... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2011 FITNESS, HEALTH, MEDICINE

• NIDA on Drugs, Brain, and Behavior

  

  How Science Has Revolutionized the Understanding of Drug Addiction. Addiction to alcohol, nicotine, and other drugs costs Americans as much as half a trillion... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2011 HEALTH, MEDICINE, PSYCHOLOGY

• Seeking a Patch Or a Pill for Pot

  

  Drug treatments for marijuana withdrawal. Sometimes it’s easy to forget that marijuana is the most widely used illegal drug of all. We demonize it, yet we take... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2011 HEALTH, MEDICINE, PSYCHOLOGY

• Spice, K2, Other “Fake Pot” Illegal as of March 1

  

  DEA makes synthetic marijuana a Schedule 1 drug. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) exercised its emergency scheduling authority yesterday to... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2011 DEBATE, HEALTH, MEDICINE, SOCIETY

• Smoking and Adolescent Attention Deficit

  

  Are young smokers risking cognitive impairment as adults? Call it “nicolescence.” It’s that time of life when certain 18-and-unders discover cigarettes. Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2011 DEBATE, HEALTH, SOCIETY

• From NINA to NSNA: No Smokers Need Apply

  

  Smoke-free workplace or job discrimination? It started with hospitals and medical businesses. As more and more states adopted strict policies about smoking,... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2011 HEALTH, MEDICINE, PSYCHOLOGY

• Love, Loss, and Addiction

  

  Review of “This River” by James Brown. James Brown, author of “The L.A. Diaries,” has offered up another candid and courageous memoir in his new book, “This... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2011 BOOKS, CULTURE