An expert on abnormal brain function talks about drugs, hallucinations, and addiction. Vaughan Bell gets around. The multifaceted clinical and research psychologist, currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London, is, in fact, down in Colombia right now. He arrived in the country to teach clinical psychiatry at Hospital Universitario ….
Read more ›A 31 year old Australian man was allegedly lashed with electrical cable by four heavily bearded men who broke into his bedroom in Sydney at about 1am on Sunday morning. Three of the men in their late teens or early 20s, allegedly held him down on his bed while a fourth, aged between 40 and ….
Read more ›It’s summer vacation. Did I turn off the stove? Some recent posts I wrote before ending my run as editor of TheFix.comNews Blog: Drugging the Elderly – Why seniors take too many of the wrong medications at the wrong dose. Never Heard of Kratom? You Will. – A plant from Thailand with opiate-like properties is ….
Read more ›TMZ is reporting that struggling songstress AmyWinehouse has been found dead in her apartment… A press release from the Metropolitan Police, which doesn’t specifically name Winehouse, says: “Police were called by London Ambulance Service to an address in Camden Square NW1 shortly before 16.05hrs today, Saturday 23 July, following reports of a woman found deceased. ….
Read more ›Musicians who died of drug-related causes at the age of 27: Jimi Hendrix Brian Jones Janis Joplin Jim Morrison Kurt Cobain courtesy metro.co.uk. Cause of death unknown at this time. For breaking coverage, see: http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Read more ›Knowledge, not firepower, is the key to the future. In modern American society, heart disease, cancer, HIV\AIDS, diabetes, alcoholism, and cigarette addiction account for millions of deaths. They are all disease entities with strong psychological and behavioral components-complicated, multicellular, multi-organ disorders. But they have all been associated, at one time or another, with negative personality ….
Read more ›My WebTalk Radio interview for the podcast, “Addicted to Addicts.” Listen to the podcast at WebTalkRadio HERE. (Addiction Inbox is now on vacation. Hot fun in the summer sun…)
Read more ›Pharmaceuticals and sexual performance. The search for aphrodisiacs is an ancient, if not always venerable, human pursuit. Named for Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, aphrodisiacs are compounds that have the reputation, real or imagined, of increasing sexual desire, pleasure, and potency. It’s safe to say that rhinoceros horn or tiger penis-various forms of sympathetic ….
Read more ›What if there was another version of you, one that was living on an another version of Earth. Would that you have made the same choices or mistakes? Would they even be alive? Would their friends and relatives be different and in what ways? Would you… like to meet you? Those are the questions posed ….
Read more ›A 75-year old pot assay is due for an update. We’ve all seen it on cop shows: The little plastic bag, the officer breaking the seal on a small pipette and inserting a bit of marijuana, then a firm shake, and voila, the liquid in the test satchel turns purple: Guilty. Here’s an interesting twist ….
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