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• Addiction Machines: How Slots Are Designed for Compulsive Play

  

  Your player card, please. The image of the compulsive gambler has traditionally been the male poker player, drink in hand, recklessly betting the night away.... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Craving Relief

  

  Why is it so hard for addicts to say “enough?” One of the useful things that may yet come out of the much-derided DSM-5 manual of mental disorders is the... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Addiction Rehab: Everything is Broken

  

  Down the rabbit hole in search of effective treatment. When I first began researching drugs and addiction years ago, a Seattle doctor told me something... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• How to Kick Everything

  

  Christopher Kennedy Lawford on recovery. Christopher Kennedy Lawford’s ambitious, one-size-fits-all undertaking is titled Recover to Live: Kick Any Habit, Manag... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Khat: A Psychologist's Field Trip

  

  Looking for a chew in London. I ran across a great story by Vaughan Bell at Mind Hacks, about his stroll around London, looking for khat, the East African... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Bath Salts Mixed With Spice: Two Drugs In One

  

  Researchers document latest recreational Frankenmolecule. Researchers in Japan have run across what is believed to be the first example of a hybrid synthetic... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Media and Drug Policy: Where’s the Science?

  

  Groping blindly toward a new framework. As states and the federal government clash at the legal, social, and political levels over legalizing marijuana, the... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The House That Drugs Built

  

  Eugene Jarecki’s documentary. The following quotes have been excerpted from "The House I Live In," the recent documentary about drug addiction and law... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• How I Quit Gambling

  

  Projectile vomiting can be your friend. I never should have found myself inside casinos in the first place. As a former alcoholic, cigarette smoker, and drug... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Congress and the Civil War Over Marijuana

  

  Two lawmakers take a stab at ending federal prohibition of pot. Two new bills designed to end federal marijuana prohibition and let states set their own policie... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Science On the Web and In the Flesh

  

  Thoughts on the ScienceOnline2013 conference. As a blogger, I write about the science-based investigation of drugs and addiction—but I am not a scientist. Far... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Novartis Gives Up On Nicotine Vaccine

  

  Another one bites the dust. Novartis, a leading health care products company, called it quits on its NIC002 nicotine vaccine project, which failed badly three... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2013 HEALTH, MEDICINE, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Big Tobacco Makes a Move Into E-Cigarettes

  

  “A battery-operated, addiction-based market.” While the FDA dithered, and health advocates argued, Big Tobacco began placing its bets on the e-cigarette market... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Popular “Bath Salt” Hooks Lab Rats

  

  Mephedrone shows addictive properties in animal models. Cathinones, like methedrine and other stimulants, are primarily dopamine-active drugs. Though they are... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Binge Drinking in America

  

  And the numbers are… fuzzy. Public health officials in the UK have been wringing their hands for some time now over perceived rates of binge drinking among the... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Have We Killed Half of Our Soldiers with Cigarettes?

  

  They start smoking early, quit too late: 50% at high risk Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Twelve Months of Addiction Box

  

  (Inspired by Twelve Months of Drug Monkey) Drug Monkey writes: The rules for this blog meme are quite simple. -Post the link and first sentence from the first... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Year in Drugs

  

  Top Posts at Addiction Inbox. By the look of it, readers had marijuana on their minds in 2012. Of the posts at Addiction Inbox with the highest number of page... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Have a Smart Christmas and a Harm-Reduced New Year

  

  Thoughts on addiction and the holidays. Addiction During the Holidays: Recovered or Not, It’s Important to be Prepared [Adi Jaffe, Psychology Today] “The... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• States Quietly Defunding Anti-Smoking Programs For Kids

  

  Only 2 cents of each tobacco settlement dollar goes to smoking prevention plans. If there’s one thing we know about smoking, it’s that for every smoker who... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE