Prohibition Paradox
Alcohol still gets credit for close to 90,000 deaths every year-- more than other drugs, even in the middle of an epidemic.
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When Alcohol Pays for Research
After all, you can’t afford to stop selling it. That’s not how you get promoted. What you need is science that seems to confirm your biases.
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Forgotten But Not Gone: Other Highs
There’s an ongoing search among users for ways to either improve the high (which escalating tolerance threatens to steal away) or suppress the withdrawal symptoms.
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Alcohol Tax Cut
…those users have fewer resources to pay for healthcare and legal problems that often result from more drinking. So who picks up the tab?
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Another Turn of the Cycle
Of course, we still lose several hundred thousand people annually. But that’s actually progress.
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In the News: Russian Drinking
Once the demand for a drug is well-established, as it is for alcohol, people will find a way to get it, legal or otherwise.
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Abused by Alcohol
Like the film where Amy Shumer chugs boxed wine, and inadvertently drives up sales to admiring fans.
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Polypharmacy Overdose
No question that combining or ‘stacking’ these substances, illegal and/or prescription, increases the risk for unintended OD.
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Models of Addiction: The Temperance Model
The idea was that the drinker would admit his sins, beg forgiveness, accept punishment, and promise to abstain from that point on.
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Quick Onset: “One Drink” Alcoholism
One large survey of alcoholics found that some 14% had actually become dependent within a year of the first drink. The percentage almost doubled when the time period was extended to two years.
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What is a “Safe” Drinking Level?
Problems with alcohol are better defined in terms of the problems themselves than some arbitrary amount consumed.
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Is LSD Going to Cure Alcoholism?
The Norwegian study is part of an ongoing effort to restore the right of researchers to conduct studies involving therapeutic uses of LSD.
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Can Binge Drinking Make You Stupid?
Effects on learning and memory appear particularly important when the drinking occurred during adolescence, an ‘accelerated learning period’ for most of us.
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