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Dirk Hanson


Dirk Hanson , Male (MN/USA)
281 articles since August 30th, 2010
Blog: http://addiction-dirkh.blogspo...
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Where Are All the New Anti-Craving Drugs?
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013 by Dirk Hanson
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The dilemma of dwindling drug development. Drugs for the treatment of addiction are now a fact of life. For alcoholism alone, the medications legally available by prescription include disulfiram Antabuse, naltrexone Revia and Vivitroland acamprosate Campral, the most recent FDA-approved entry. A fou...
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Addiction Inbox (D)Evolves Into Paperback
Sunday, April 28th, 2013 by Dirk Hanson
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A curated collection of blog posts in print. Online is where journalism is happening now, but it is a truism that most of the worlds repository of knowledge is still found in books. It is also true that Addiction Inbox now comes in paperback, from Amazon. For cheap. Also available in Kindle, for jus...
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Nature, Nurture, and Me
Thursday, April 25th, 2013 by Dirk Hanson
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Which came first, the addiction or the trauma About a year ago, Jonathan Taylor, a professor at California State University in Fullerton, assigned his students some reading from my book, The Chemical Carousel, for his Drugs, Politics, and Cultural Change course. At the same time, the class watched a...
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Let the Light Shine In: Addiction and Optogenetics
Monday, April 22nd, 2013 by Dirk Hanson
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Study says laser light can turn cocaine addiction on and off in rats. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health NIH, had one word for it Wow. Writing in the directors blog at the online NIH site, Collins said that a team of researchers from NIH and UC San Francisco had succe...
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On Dead Salmon, Drugs, and “Lighting Up” the Brain
Thursday, April 18th, 2013 by Dirk Hanson
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Are fMRIs truly useful in addiction medicine What would it take to make neuroimaging a truly valuable tool for addiction medicine Pictures of brain regions lighting up have always been exciting, as the early phase of neuroimaging predictably inspired rapture. Phase 2 arrived when a group of U.S. pos...
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