Who’s Dropping Acid
It’s likely because of all the favorable attention that hallucinogens have received in the popular media.
Category: Addictive Substances
Alcohol may be the oldest. New ones are being invented every day. There are thousands, and keeping track of what they are and what they do isn’t easy.
Addictive Substances
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Cannabi-News
People get very dependent on cannabis. The way they do with certain other drugs.
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Is Cannabis Essential, Like Milk and Eggs?
Makes me wonder about the widespread practice of prescribing medical marijuana for mental health conditions such as PTSD.
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The Return of Methamphetamine
“Heroin withdrawal is like a really awful bout of the flu,” one former patient, a screenwriter, told me. “Getting off methadone, that feels like dying.”
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The Vape Ban That Wasn’t
Corporations will fight dirty if necessary to protect their investment. That includes in the political arena.
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Cannabis and Mental Health
Even if it turns out to be ineffective for patients, buying cannabis products certainly gives a boost to the sales figures.
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Fentanyl Goes West
It’s Business 101, for illegal as well as legal enterprises.
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CBD Oil and Its Risks
That we have such a large and growing community of frequent users is a tribute not to evidence, but to hype.
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Esketamine Second Thoughts
The first trials did not demonstrate effectiveness beyond placebo. So the FDA allowed a third trial which apparently did, at least a little.
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Stimulants Today
The list of deaths from the practice is long and oddly prestigious, featuring celebs such as John Belushi and Chris Farley, among many others.
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Microdosers
If the dose is in fact subtherapeutic, then what causes the effects so enthusiastically reported by the user?
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Is Cannabis Addictive?
The best answer is the one we came up with to explain the selectivity of alcoholism: Differences in individual susceptibility.
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