Drug Abuse Science:
Members of San Diego State University are expressing an interesting attitude in the aftermath of the drug sweep which arrested 75 students of SDSU. According to the initial reporting it is clear that members of an organized drug marketing organization...
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Posted on May 8, 2008 2:55 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
For some reason many people are in denial about cannabis dependence and wish to assert that there is no such thing, or if there is, it is somehow of lesser importance than is dependence on other substances of abuse. There...
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Posted on April 29, 2008 3:28 PM • 96 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It is no secret (although a much ignored fact) that journals will have a certain "type" of article that they are looking for that has little to do with objective scientific quality. Certain topics are "hot" while others that are...
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Posted on April 28, 2008 8:48 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This week's fax from the Center for Substance Abuse Research at the University of Maryland touches on an issue of continual interest, namely the determination of "how addictive" different drugs of abuse may be. As I have mentioned a time...
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Posted on April 16, 2008 5:33 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Welcome back to another glorious day in San Diego...which I will spend most of inside the convention center for the Experimental Biology 2008 meeting. I experimented a bit with semi-live blogging yesterday and will continue today....
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Posted on April 7, 2008 11:40 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In his classic song the great philosopher and student of addictive disorders, Hank Williams, Jr., blames a traditional source for increasing the probability of developing substance abuse: ....Hank why do you drink? (Hank) why do you roll smoke? Why must...
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Posted on April 3, 2008 1:48 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
SIIIIIGGGGHHHH This just gets sadder and sadder... Ashley Youmans, aka Ashley Alexandra Dupre, aka "Kristen": ... writes that she left home at 17 to begin "my odyssey to New York." "It was my decision, and I've never looked back," she...
Posted on March 13, 2008 2:42 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
YHN and other parent bloggers (Abel Pharmboy, Dr. Free-Ride, DuWayne Brayton) have been musing on what DuWayne called "the conversation that never ends". To wit, the conversation that parents anticipate having with their children over the use of recreational psychoactive...
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Posted on March 11, 2008 2:59 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'm following up on some blogging resulting from a recent post of mine on the effect Len Bias' death (apparently) had on population level perception of the riskiness of trying cocaine. This will verge on the type of link-vomitus that...
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Posted on March 3, 2008 1:00 PM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I have a tendency to refer to data from the Monitoring the Future study with some frequency. Unfortunately I've been too lazy to post the critical data figures for your entertainment. Until today DearReader. One example of which I am...
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Posted on February 29, 2008 3:15 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
