The Politics of Drug Abuse Research Funding
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That estimated $6 Billion in annual costs to our nation should get your attention.
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UK Home Office Restores Drug Science to the Back of the Bus
Category: Drug Abuse Science
When I last took up the quixotic campaign of David Nutt, Ph.D., Professor of Psychopharmacology, Univ. of Bristol and former Chair of the UK Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, it was to point out his belief that...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 7:56 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Blogrolling: Addiction Inbox
Category: Blogging
A great blog covering substance-abuse related science and policy
Posted by DrugMonkey at 1:25 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Vaccination against cocaine: Incremental advance
Category: Cocaine
The study was positive since vaccination resulted in more cocaine-free urine samples compared with the sham vaccination...but there is a catch.
Posted by DrugMonkey at 5:55 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
College on Problems of Drug Dependence tiptoes into WebEleventy?
Category: Blogging
For the half-dozen or so of my readers who are actually drug abuse scientists I note the recent issue of the Newsline of CPDD contains an interesting observation from the Publications Committee: In addition, there are an increasing number of...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 3:25 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Faces of Drug Abuse Research: Laura E. O'Dell, Ph.D.
Category: Diversity in Science
Professor O'Dell investigates the rewarding and dependence-inducing properties of nicotine in males and females across development from adolescence to adulthood.
Posted by DrugMonkey at 12:55 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Diagnostic Criteria for MDMA abuse and dependence
Category: MDMA
It is no great leap of genius to see that test / re-test reliability is particularly important when the diagnostic instrument consists of asking people about their illegal and socially stigmatized behaviors.
Posted by DrugMonkey at 3:17 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"Is it the pot that made him lazy DM?"
Category: Ask DrugMonkey
One of the top questions from the boss, the US taxpayer, fielded by YHN
Posted by DrugMonkey at 3:13 PM • 64 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Dr. leigh on the pharmacology of marijuana
Category: Cannabis
"For the record, I am not interested in discussing policy or the legal status of the drug. I am just here writing about how it works." heh hey, lemme 'splain how this is going to go down dr. leigh...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 4:19 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Another Poppy Tea Death
Category: Drug Fatality
It is very sad that this seeming fad in recreational drug use is resulting in fatalities. It seems that it is doing so almost entirely because the dose is so hard to control / appreciate under the typical use circumstances.
Posted by DrugMonkey at 3:55 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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