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An interview with the man who blew the whistle on the neurotoxic malaria drug in the U.S. Army’s kit bag.
A dangerous malaria drug invented by the Army and commonly used by soldiers and civili ans...
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Canada, The United Kingdom and The United States use the month of February to bring awareness to Eating Disorders.Generally, eating disorders involve self-critical, negative thoughts and feelings abou t...
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A compendium of tough prose and poetry about addiction.
Here’s a book I’m delighted to promote unabashedly. I even wrote a jacket blurb for it. I called it an “honest, unflinching b ook...
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Dopamine recruits a helper to track drug rewards.
Ah, dopamine. Whenever it seems like researchers have finally gotten a bead on how that tricky molecule modulates pleasure and reward, and t he...
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How everything we knew about heroin was wrong.
Editor's note: The famous Robins study on heroin use among Vietnam veterans has been so often—and so recently—misinterpreted that I felt mo tivated...
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January has been designated Stalking Awareness Month in the United States.
Stalking, as defined by Dr. J. R. Meloy, is defined as "the willful, malicious and repeated following and harassing of anoth er...
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Former Soul Coughing front man on sobriety and life as a solo artist.
Over the phone, Mike Doughty doesn’t have much to say about his former band, Soul Coughing. When I mention it, he gives ou t...
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How we integrate or make sense of our experiences have a lot to do with how they affect us. That's just common sense. However, the drive within psychology towards a research and evidence based practic e...
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Defining addiction, making research more transparent, and dealing with the DSM-V
(The “Five-Question Interview” series.)
Like many incredibly busy people, Dr. Howard J. Shaffer, associa te...
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There are few relationships in life that are more influential than those between a mentor and a young person. I know this from both sides of the coin. You see, I have had many a mentor in my life grow ing...
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