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Love and Limerence

A low point for me was when I photoshopped a picture of my face over his girlfriend’s in a picture…

February 11, 2019

Sure, Cannabis Is a “Gateway Drug”—Toward Less Use of Other Drugs

As more and more prohibitionist cannabis policies are reversed in North America, a long-peddled, if long-debunked, perception that weed is a "gateway…

February 7, 2019

Feds Take First Formal Swing at Stopping Supervised Consumption Space

The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania launched a preemptive strike February 6 against what the harm…

February 7, 2019

What a Breakthrough E-Cigarette Study Illustrates About Addiction

The first large, systematic study of whether e-cigarettes help people to quit smoking was published January 30 in the New…

February 7, 2019

State of the Union: Trump’s Real “Special Guest” Was Bad Drug Policy

President Donald Trump's special guests to the State of the Union address on February 5 included two people directly impacted…

February 6, 2019

For People Still Impacted by the Crack Era, the First Step Act Isn’t Enough

You could get crack before you got something to eat,” said Uneeda Nichols, 46, looking back on her adolescent years…

February 6, 2019

Brave Russian Harm Reductionists Launch Chemsex Program in Moscow

A new Russian harm reduction program for Muscovites engaging in chemsex is getting started in a country known for skyrocketing…

February 5, 2019

Companies Use Patient Data to Generate “Risk Scores” for Their Likelihood of Addiction

The Food and Drug Administration ended 2018 by awarding Milliman, a health insurance consulting company, with extra resources and expedited…

February 5, 2019

Should I Drug Test My Kids? Why the Experts Say No

Does anyone still want to do drug tests on their children? Apparently so, because there are plenty of kits for…

February 5, 2019

Public Defenders Are Hugely Overworked—But Also Underpaid Compared With Prosecutors

Many public defense attorneys are swamped with more cases than they can accommodate, illustrates a recent New York Times report. But the understaffing…

February 4, 2019