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LATEST ARTICLES ( 312 )

• Researchers Link Alcoholism and Binge Eating Behavior

  

  Addiction and the role of genetic overlap. More evidence has arrived, courtesy of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, demonstrating a... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Building Better Baby Brains: Just Say No To FAS

  

  Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is our most preventable form of disability. Despite a growing focus on the hazards of prescription painkillers for newborns, drinking... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Chemical Peek at Modern Marijuana

  

  Researchers ponder whether ditch weed is better for you than sinsemilla. Australia has one of the highest rates of marijuana use in the world, but until... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• “Spiceophrenia”

  

  Synthetic cannabimimetics and psychosis. Not long ago, public health officials were obsessing over the possibility that “skunk” marijuana—loosely defined as... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• LSD Mutates Into NBOMe

  

  What’s on that blotter? It is a darkly poetic indictment of the War on Drugs that LSD, the first synthetic psychedelic, demonized for decades and the target of... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Will Power and Its Limits

  

  How to strengthen your self-control. Reason in man obscured, or not obeyed, Immediately inordinate desires, And upstart passions, catch the government From... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Peyote and the White Man’s Gin

  

  Aldous Huxley reflects on drugs in 1958. In the Brave New World of my fable there was no whisky, no tobacco, no illicit heroin, no bootlegged co­caine. Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Methamphetamine: An Excerpt

  

  There’s more than one kind of monster. Type and I pass the pipe. The overhead light flickers and the wind picks up even more. It’s coming from the north... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• From “The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee”

  

  By Honore de Balzac, translated by Robert Onopa. Coffee is a great power in my life; I have observed its effects on an epic scale…. Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Crack Babies Are Turning Out Okay

  

  Major study concludes that crack panic was overblown. In an excellent story for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Susan FitzGerald traces the fortunes of Philadelphia... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Fruit Fly Larvae Go Cold Turkey and Forget the Car Keys

  

  Not a pretty sight. Let’s start with the fruit fly, your basic Drosophila. A fruit fly, like a human, can become addicted to alcohol even at a very young age.... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• MDPV Turns Lab Rats Into "Window Lickers"

  

  Popular bath salt drug shown to be highly addictive. Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) in La Jolla, California, appear to have hammered the... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Popular Synthetics: The Class of 2013

  

  Navigating the new alphabet of intoxication. You don’t have to be a molecular chemist to know which of today’s recreational drugs are safe. Wait, I take that... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Addiction Trajectories: Book Review

  

  Striving for that elusive middle ground. For a journalist who covers neuroscience, the political and psychoanalytic focus of anthropology sometimes feels like... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Smoking and Surgery Don’t Mix

  

  Even routine operations are riskier for smokers. Smokers who are scheduling a medical operation might want to think seriously about quitting, once they hear... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Weak Smoker’s Vaccine Might Be Worse Than None

  

  New PET scans show wide responses to antibodies. One of the brightest hopes of addiction science has been the idea of a vaccine—an antibody that would scavenge... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Seven Questions About Marijuana Legalization

  

  RAND researcher nails it neatly. I’ve been meaning to offer up the key points from an excellent column on marijuana legalization that appeared in April in USA... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• What We Talk About When We Talk About Drugs

  

  Some number crunching at bluelight.ru. A fantastic set of interactive graphics tracking conversational trends in drugs at the chat board bluelight.ru reveals... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Will Marijuana “Dabbing” Harm the Legalization Movement?

  

  “Relax, bro—it’s just a blowtorch.” It is called dabbing, and it is something the marijuana legalization movement would rather you didn’t know about. Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Women, Cigarettes, and Meth

  

  More bad news for young female addicts. A blizzard of research findings this year continues to demonstrate that women have gender-specific issues to deal with... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE