2020-03-31 16:12
Apology to the Young Addict by James BrownIf you think you've had it with addiction memoirs, James Brown will change your mind completely. Brutally honest, tender, forthright, challenging, t… Read More
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2019-02-24 20:42
Relapse dreams during recovery: What do they mean? Science News features a fascinating look at the topic:Click HERE Read More
2018-09-06 15:33
"A systematic review of the next‐day effects of heavy alcohol consumption on cognitive performance"The latest scientific rundown on the ramifications of hangovers, in the journal Addic… Read More
2018-08-24 16:37
Moderate daily drinking will not improve your health.As a growing number of addiction and alcohol consumption researchers have been pointing out, the notion of a safe and even benefici… Read More
2018-07-19 16:26
U.S. death rate from alcohol-related liver disease is soaring."Deaths from liver disease have increased sharply in recent years in the United States, according to a study published in the Br… Read More
2018-06-16 16:54
Officials halt government study on moderate drinking funded by alcohol industryThe New York Times reports: “The extensive government trial was intended to settle an age-old question ab… Read More
2018-05-25 16:40
Another meta-study demolishes decades of wishful thinking.Vox notes that "an impressive new meta-study involving 600,000 participants, published recently in The Lancet, suggests that levels… Read More
2018-05-08 13:33
It's complicated. In an article appearing in the June 29 edition of the journal Addiction, researchers ask women what they think about it: "Women‐only addiction services tend to b… Read More
2018-02-09 17:48
Depression, alcoholism, and other psychiatricillnesses share disease-related “signatures”involving a disruption in how brain cells communicate with each other.The study, ent… Read More
2018-01-22 16:10
The recent Hari/Hart/Lewis hypothesis that addiction is not primarily metabolic or genetic, but rather the result of "despair" or "sociological conditions" or "flawed learning," takes a majo… Read More
2018-01-07 21:55
"Alcohol and endogenous aldehydes damage chromosomes and mutate stem cells"Juan I. Garaycoechea, Gerry P. Crossan, Frédéric Langevin, Lee Mulderrig, Sandra Louzada, Fenta… Read More
2017-12-26 19:09
Without a doubt, the alcohol you're drinking this Holiday Season is too damn cheap.By all means check out the new piece by German Lopez at Vox: "The case for setting a minimum price on alcoh… Read More
2017-08-04 14:11
Sen. Booker's petition would remove marijuana from the list of controlled substances. "For decades, the failed War on Drugs has locked up millions of nonviolent drug offenders, especial… Read More
2017-04-10 20:50
The indica vs. sativa debate, continued. [First published July 13, 2015.]Anyone who has smoked marijuana more than a couple of times knows that cannabis can alter how you sleep. The eff… Read More
2017-03-25 16:47
Editor's note: The famous Robins study on heroin use among Vietnam veterans has been so often—and so recently—misinterpreted that I felt motivated to reprint an ol… Read More
2017-02-16 19:39
Parental heavy drinking affects everyone. The British House of Commons recently issued a manifesto timed to coincide with International Children of Alcoholics Week. The manifesto was co-writ… Read More
2017-01-13 23:10
The full article is available here: http://www.bendsource.com/ Read More
2016-12-31 16:38
Sobering Up––Myths and FactsMyth: You can drive as long as you are not slurring your words or acting erratically.Fact: The coordination needed for driving is compromised long bef… Read More
2016-12-19 18:25
Our annual look at Christmas Decoration Addiction. By John M. Grohol, Psy.D."Five years ago, I covered something called Christmas lighting addiction in our then-fledgling newslette… Read More
2016-11-27 22:15
What Doctors Don’t Tell YouIt is, in fact, no secret at all that alcohol causes cancer. Rather than conferring any demonstrable metabolic benefit, alcohol is more likely to damag… Read More
2016-11-16 20:22
Results of the 2016 election. Source: Governing.com Read More
2016-11-13 21:53
One day at a time Read More
2016-09-28 21:20
2016-09-02 19:16
Banning New Drugs: What is the Path Forward? Eighteen months ago, in a post on novel synthetic drugs in the cannabinoid and cathinone families, I wrote that the new fake marijuana and fake E… Read More
2016-08-01 20:58
John Berryman in the Penal Colony “Will power is nothing. Morals is nothing. Lord, this is illness.”—John Berryman, 1971A year before he committed suicide by ju… Read More
2016-06-20 15:16
How unethical treatment shills hunt down patients.Check this account at Huffington Post by Ryan Grim: "Addiction Treatment Industry Worried Lax Ethics Could Spell Its Doom."Eye-opening Read More
2016-06-14 00:56
How adolescent risk becomes grownup addiction. Pediatricians have often remarked upon it: Give one adolescent his first cigarette, and he will cough and choke and swear never to t… Read More
2016-06-08 16:23
Guest PostBy Andy"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." —Winston ChurchillOne of the reasons I love this quote, is because for many of us, being able… Read More
2016-05-27 14:12
Know your chemicals Read More
2016-04-17 15:32
Spring has sprung, and the toxic 'shrooms are out Read More
2016-04-04 14:07
2016-02-16 18:48
Volkow, Koob, and McLellan on the neurobiology of addiction.The New England Journal of Medicine recently published a review article, “Neurobiologic Advances from the Brain Disease Mode… Read More
2016-02-05 15:46
Golden Goat or Sour Diesel? The bland assurances from medical marijuana dispensaries about the physical and psychological effects of the bewildering array of hybrid plant strains on of… Read More
2016-02-01 22:33
Addressing the habit-forming aspects of marijuana.A trio of leading marijuana scientists participated in a panel discussion moderated by Dr. Daniele Piomelli from the School of Medicine at t… Read More
2015-12-16 22:58
The kids are all right.Every year, the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the auspices of the National Institutes of Health, conducts its Monitoring the Future survey of drug use… Read More
2015-11-23 00:51
Smoke pot, shoot smack?The Great Gateway Hypothesis has had a long, controversial run as a central tenet of American anti-drug campaigns. As put forth by Denise B. Kandell of Columbia Unive… Read More
2015-10-31 23:38
Cocaine addiction and psychoanalysis.That Sigmund Freud was a cocaine abuser for some portion of his professional life is by now well known. Reading An Anatomy of Addiction by Howard Markel… Read More
2015-10-12 18:26
[First published August 4 2010]Maybe it isn't endorphins after all.What do long-distance running and marijuana smoking have in common? Quite possibly, more than you’d think. A growin… Read More
2015-10-09 20:00
The Zendo Project Read More
2015-09-17 16:32
It's the everything else that adds up.A couple of years ago, coffee drinkers were buoyed by the release of a massive study in the New England Journal of Medicine that “did not support… Read More
2015-07-21 21:03
What's In Your Weed?Australia has one of the highest rates of marijuana use in the world, but until recently, nobody could say for certain what, exactly, Australians were smoking. Researcher… Read More
2015-07-13 21:36
Study sheds potential light on indica vs. sativa debate.[Thanks to Ivan Oransky (@ivanoransky) for alerting me to this study.]Anyone who has smoked marijuana more than a couple of times know… Read More
2015-05-12 21:09
Meet John Barleycorn.In the early years of the 20th Century, writer Jack London was the equivalent of a rock star. A ruggedly good-looking sportswriter, globetrotting war correspondent, succ… Read More
2015-05-04 16:48
A warning or an advertisement?You almost have to admire the tenacity shown by the liquor industry in its passive aggressive method of turning a warning label into additional advertising. Per… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Strong pot matters, but maybe not the way we think. Colorado, Washington, and some 20 additional states have now made various provisions for legal transactions involving marijuana. And since… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Follow the bouncing ping-pong ball. “E-cigarettes are likely to be gateway devices for nicotine addiction among youth, opening up a whole new market for tobacco.”—Lauren Du… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Your brain doesn’t come with an instruction manual.The Dana Foundation’s annual Brain Awareness Week (BAW), March 10-16, seems particularly appropriate and useful this time aroun… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Book review.In The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking, author Olivia Laing’s stated goal is “to know why writers drink, and what effect this stew of spirits has had upo… Read More
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