Good news for people who take one of those monster fish oil pills. I started taking them a couple of months ago after reading several articles about what kind of vitamins a man of my age with couple of specific health complaints should be taking. The soundest advice I gathered in my research led me to ….
Read more ›A Texas man has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of drunken driving – his ninth such charge since 1984. Russell Don Sneed faced a minimum 25-year penalty when McLennan County jurors sentenced him in Waco on Thursday, a day after his conviction. Defense attorney Melanie Walker had told jurors no one ….
Read more ›Using What Works Why do so many drug treatment centers continue to shun science by ignoring medications that ease the burden of withdrawal for many addicts? That’s the question posed in an article by Alison Knopf in the May-June issue ofAddiction Professional, titled “The Medication Holdouts.” “Nowhere else in medicine,” Knopf writes, “are the people ….
Read more ›Can you really be addicted to sex? Is sex addiction real? I know I need sex….sometimes I think I need it really really bad; doesn’t everyone? I also need air and water….sometimes really really bad. So am I an air addict? How can someone be addicted to something that is basic to survival (or in ….
Read more ›Thoughts on the 40th anniversary of the War on Drugs. Last week marked the end of four decades of drug wars first unleashed under President Richard Nixon. The event was well marked, with events and pronouncements on all sides. But nothing struck me quite like a recent essay by Daniel Lende at his blog site, ….
Read more ›I saw a repeat of SNL last week and this was the opening skit. Things sure have been quite from the Sheen camp lately. Hope its a good quite. Sorry for the commercial at the beginning – seems to be no way around it for snl clips.
Read more ›News and views from the drug blog at The Fix. A selection of recent posts I’ve written at The Fix, where I edit the blog as senior contributing editor. Some stuff you may not have run across. Here’s an even dozen from June: ——- Dutch Court Ruling Leaves Cannabis Shop Open to Tourists-For Now Maastricht ….
Read more ›The New York Times has an in depth profile on Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the NIH’s National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and one of the top scientists in the field of addiction. You can read the whole profile here. They also have a great video interview with her if you don’t feel like ….
Read more ›This should not be required viewing in all high schools. It’s all great stuff – except for the fact that Sonny seems incredibly stoned in the final minutes.
Read more ›I’ve never been a huge fan of VH1′s Celebrity Rehab for the obvious reason that it seems to take advantage of other’s misery, albeit one they have agreed too. That being said, I do think that Dr. Drew’s heart is in the right place and it does highlight the disease in all its ugliness and ….
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