Perennial Playboy Magazine Top-Ten Party School San Diego State University is in the news following the arrest of some of its students on allegations of illicit drug dealing and drug possession. The San Diego Union Tribune is reporting: Federal agents...
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Posted on May 7, 2008 4:24 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Salvia divinorum smoking is apparently popular with the kids these days. Drug Law Blog had a recent note on progress of a California Assembly bill AB 259 which: Provides that any person who sells, dispenses, distributes, furnishes, administers, gives, or...
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Posted on May 2, 2008 3:00 PM • 6 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
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
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
As a follow to my prior comments pointing out that the press reports on Heath Ledger's death were unnecessarily devoid of neuropharmacological perspective, I'll note that the report on the drugs found in Heath Ledger's body after his death is...
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Posted on February 6, 2008 9:43 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
