Dirk Hanson

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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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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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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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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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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