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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
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
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
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
World No Smoking Day. Read more
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
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
Sunday, May 19th, 2013 by Dirk Hanson
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
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
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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