Addiction Inbox
Dirk Hanson is a freelance science writer and blogger. He is also the author of "The New Alchemists: Silicon Valley and the Microelectronics Revolution." He currently edits the Addiction Inbox blog. He has written for Scientific American, The Dana Foundation, Huffington Post, AlterNet, California, Omni, and other magazines.
Prohibition and the “tobacco control endgame.”
Despite all our efforts in recent years to reduce the percentage of Americans who smoke cigarettes—currently about one in five—the idea of full-blown... Read Full Post
Submitted on Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 09:51
Hendrik Hertzberg on the hypocrisy of the hip.
In a blog post at the New Yorker last week, Hendrik Hertzberg spotlighted a recent joke made by the President of the United States at the White House... Read Full Post
Submitted on Saturday, May 11, 2013 - 13:11
If Valium makes you groggy, and Ambien makes you sleepwalk…
A compound that blocks a brain receptor you probably have never heard of may hold the key to the next generation of sleeping pills—and... Read Full Post
Submitted on Tuesday, May 7, 2013 - 17:59
Proposal to revote on pot legalization is losing steam.
While the rest of the nation argues over Colorado’s recent decision to legalize limited amounts of marijuana, a small but determined group of... Read Full Post
Submitted on Monday, May 6, 2013 - 09:23
The dilemma of dwindling drug development.
Drugs for the treatment of addiction are now a fact of life. For alcoholism alone, the medications legally available by prescription include disulfiram (... Read Full Post
Submitted on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - 14:33
A curated collection of blog posts in print.
Online is where journalism is happening now, but it is a truism that most of the world’s repository of knowledge is still found in books. It is also true... Read Full Post
Submitted on Sunday, April 28, 2013 - 16:10
Which came first, the addiction or the trauma?
About a year ago, Jonathan Taylor, a professor at California State University in Fullerton, assigned his students some reading from my book, The... Read Full Post
Submitted on Thursday, April 25, 2013 - 10:45
Study says laser light can turn cocaine addiction on and off in rats.
Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), had one word for it: “Wow.”
Writing in the director’... Read Full Post
Submitted on Monday, April 22, 2013 - 14:24
Are fMRIs truly useful in addiction medicine?
What would it take to make neuroimaging a truly valuable tool for addiction medicine? Pictures of brain regions “lighting up” have always been exciting... Read Full Post
Submitted on Thursday, April 18, 2013 - 15:04
Smoke pot, shoot smack?
The Great Gateway Hypothesis has had a long, controversial run as a central tenet of American anti-drug campaigns. As put forth by Denise B. Kandell of Columbia University... Read Full Post
Submitted on Sunday, April 14, 2013 - 12:26
