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• Strokes Only Happen To Older People—Don’t They?

  

  Meth is a risk factor for hemorrhagic stroke. When a stroke happens to anyone under the age of 55, a major suspect is drugs, specifically the... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• How Many Calories in Your Daily Alcohol?

  

  Booze as food. Everywhere we turn, the news is packed with stories about the nation’s obesity epidemic. But one little-discussed fact about our daily calorie... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• NIH Director Calls off NIDA-NIAAA Merger

  

  Nation’s addiction research institutes to remain separate but unequal. Two years ago, the National Institutes of Health’s Scientific Management Review Board... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Short Subjects

  

  Brief news on drugs and addiction. The editorial staff at Addiction Inbox (see photo), occasionally finds itself overwhelmed with news and opinion worth... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Looking For the Science Behind the Twelve Steps

  

  Transcendence, or nonsense? What is it with the Twelve Steps? How, in the age of neuromedicine, do we account for the enduring concept of spiritual awakening... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Encultured Brain: A Book Review

  

  How biology and culture jointly define us. Anyone who follows academia knows that the broad category of courses known as the Liberal Arts has been going... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Does Marijuana Withdrawal Matter?

  

  What happens to some smokers when they cut out the cannabis. People who say they are addicted to marijuana tend to exhibit a characteristic withdrawal profile. Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Does Brain Research Obscure Addiction’s Root Causes?

  

  Did Dickens Get It Right? Breathe the polluted air, foul with every impurity that is poisonous to health and life; and have every sense, conferred upon our... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Alcohol Researchers Still Wary of Combined Addiction Institute

  

  Why can’t we all just get along? A long time ago, an intrepid institutional director named Francis Collins promised his minions (as former NIH director Harold... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Dutch Voters Leave Fate of “Weed Pass” Hanging

  

  Clock Continues Ticking For Pot Tourists in The Netherlands. AMSTERDAM—Voters in The Netherlands may have lost their final chance to block... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2012 HEALTH, LEGAL, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE, SOCIETY

• Dawn Or Dusk for Marijuana in the Emerald Triangle?

  

  New book chronicles Mendocino’s “ganjapreneurs” Every morning in California, thousands of marijuana growers wake up believing they are one day closer to becomin... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Addiction Books For the Beach

  

  When 50 Shades of Grey doesn’t cut it. The Science of Addiction: From Neurobiology to Treatment Carlton K. Erickson 312 pages Publisher: W. W. Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Praising Marijuana Prohibition

  

  The view from the White House. As regular readers of Addiction Inbox will know, I am on record as favoring some form of decriminalization for marijuana. Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Synthetic Drugs: Collected Posts

  

  Catching up with bath salts and spice. The Low Down on the New Highs: Not all bath salts are alike. “You’re 16 hours into your 24-hour shift on the medic unit,... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Books By Addicts: A Collection

  

  The Up and the Down. Steve Earle and the Ghost of Hank Williams: I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive Musician Steve Earle made a solo name for himself with... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Weight Loss Redux

  

  Why diet pills are problematic. "Physicians who treat obesity hailed the Food and Drug Administration's recent approval of two new diet drugs—the first in 13... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Status of Medical Marijuana to Be Tested in U.S. Appeals Court

  

  Ten-year old petition could change everything. Medical marijuana advocates will finally have their day in federal court, after the United States Court of... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2012 CURRENT, HEALTH, MEDICINE, SOCIETY

• Misdiagnosing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

  

  Facial abnormalities not present in most cases. Back in 1967, when a French pediatrician tried to alert doctors to developmental problems he had recognized in... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2012 HEALTH, SCIENCE

• Broken Treatment: How the Addiction Industry is Failing Its Clients

  

  It’s not medical. It's not psychiatric. What is it? 1. Most clinicians who treat addicted patients are counselors, not physicians; thus they cannot prescribe... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY

• John Berryman and the Poetry of “Irresistible Descent”

  

  “The penal colony’s prime scribe.” “Will power is nothing. Morals is nothing. Lord, this is illness.” —John Berryman, 1971 A year before he committed suicide... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE