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The image of the compulsive gambler has traditionally been the male poker player, drink in hand, recklessly betting the night away. Slot m...
March 4, 2013
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Why is it so hard for addicts to say “enough?”
One of the useful things that may yet come out of the much-derided DSM-5 manual of mental disorders is the addition o...
February 28, 2013
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Down the rabbit hole in search of effective treatment.
When I first began researching drugs and addiction years ago, a Seattle doctor told me something memorable. “...
February 26, 2013
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Christopher Kennedy Lawford on recovery.
Christopher Kennedy Lawford’s ambitious, one-size-fits-all undertaking is titled Recover to Live: Kick Any Habit, Manage An...
February 24, 2013
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Looking for a chew in London.
I ran across a great story by Vaughan Bell at Mind Hacks, about his stroll around London, looking for khat, the East African sti...
February 20, 2013
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Researchers document latest recreational Frankenmolecule.
Researchers in Japan have run across what is believed to be the first example of a hybrid synthetic drug t...
February 17, 2013
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Groping blindly toward a new framework.
As states and the federal government clash at the legal, social, and political levels over legalizing marijuana, the science...
February 13, 2013
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Eugene Jarecki’s documentary.
The following quotes have been excerpted from "The House I Live In," the recent documentary about drug addiction and law enforcement w...
February 11, 2013
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Projectile vomiting can be your friend.
I never should have found myself inside casinos in the first place. As a former alcoholic, cigarette smoker, and drug abuser...
February 8, 2013
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Two lawmakers take a stab at ending federal prohibition of pot.
Two new bills designed to end federal marijuana prohibition and let states set their own policies we...
February 5, 2013
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