addiction Articles
A Weak Smoker’s Vaccine Might Be Worse Than None
Sunday, June 16th, 2013 by Dirk Hanson
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New PET scans show wide responses to antibodies. One of the brightest hopes of addiction science has been the idea of a vaccinean antibody that would scavenge for drug molecules, bind to them, and make it impossible for them to cross the blood-brain barrier and go to work. But th... Read more
Seven Questions About Marijuana Legalization
Monday, June 10th, 2013 by Dirk Hanson
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RAND researcher nails it neatly. Ive been meaning to offer up the key points from an excellent column on marijuana legalization that appeared in April in USA Today. Beau Kilmer, a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation, lists the new and tricky issues that Colorado and ... Read more
What We Talk About When We Talk About Drugs
Thursday, June 6th, 2013 by Dirk Hanson
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Some number crunching at bluelight.ru. A fantastic set of interactive graphics tracking conversational trends in drugs at the chat board bluelight.ru reveals some surprises, to the delight of data journalists everywhere. Virostatiq, a software package authored by Marko Plahuta, w... Read more
Will Marijuana “Dabbing” Harm the Legalization Movement?
Sunday, June 2nd, 2013 by Dirk Hanson
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Relax, broits just a blowtorch. It is called dabbing, and it is something the marijuana legalization movement would rather you didnt know about. As crack is to powdered cocaine, so a dab is to a joint of marijuana the same drug, in a much more concentrated form. But butane hash o... Read more
Big Tobacco Hasn't Given Up On Smoking. Have You?
Friday, May 31st, 2013 by Dirk Hanson
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World No Smoking Day. Read more
Women, Cigarettes, and Meth
Tuesday, May 28th, 2013 by Dirk Hanson
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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 when it comes to cigarettes and speed. None of the findings have anything to do with the old canard that women cannot hol... Read more
Marijuana and Diabetes: Does Pot Make You Thin?
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013 by Dirk Hanson
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Teasing out the insulin effect. On the face of it, the study seems to come out of left field A group of researchers claimed that marijuana smokers showed 16 per cent lower fasting insulin levels than non-smokers. The study, called The Impact of Marijuana Use on Glucose, Insulin, ... Read more
From the Archives: Have Americans Become Afraid of Their Doctors?
Sunday, May 19th, 2013 by Dirk Hanson
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Noncompliance and the paranoid style. Originally published June 27, 2007 Note In the everlasting battle between consumers and Big Pharma, amid a string of recent exposes concerning whose doctor took what payment under which table, I am republishing an essay I wrote several years ... Read more
Six Arguments For the Elimination of Cigarettes
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 by Dirk Hanson
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Prohibition and the tobacco control endgame. Despite all our efforts in recent years to reduce the percentage of Americans who smoke cigarettescurrently about one in fivethe idea of full-blown cigarette prohibition has not gained much traction. That may be changing, as prominent ... Read more
The Pot President
Saturday, May 11th, 2013 by Dirk Hanson
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Hendrik Hertzberg on the hypocrisy of the hip. In a blog post at the New Yorker last week, Hendrik Hertzberg spotlighted a recent joke made by the President of the United States at the White House Correspondents dinner. In reference to the rapidly changing media landscape, Obama ... Read more
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