Media + Culture
Stigma and Misinformation Maintain the Devastating Toll of Lung Cancer
August 1 is World Lung Cancer Day. Although this is the 12th iteration of ...
Social Media Depicts Kensington as “Zombieland”—and It’s Deadly
A 15-second YouTube video begins with a white car passing across the frame. The ...
SF Chronicle’s “Honduran Drug Dealers” Series Fuels Xenophobia
In the past month, the San Francisco Chronicle has published a series of articles ...
Nicotine Prohibition Is the Goal of Truth Initiative’s “Gamechanger”
Truth Initiative, a leading anti-smoking nonprofit, has released a report laying out its “strategy ...
The False Claim That Addiction Is “All About the Dopamine”
It seems today that everyone and their brother knows about the dopamine hypothesis of ...
Huge Gathering Seeks to Shape the “Psychedelic 20s”
One of many powerful impressions from the Psychedelic Science conference was of a constant ...
Watch: A Documentary About Schizophrenia and Vaping
Does anyone care that people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders have devastatingly high rates of ...
We’ve Now Lost Two of Our Children. How Can This End?
It’s a Saturday evening, the day before Mother’s Day. My husband and I are ...
Canada Mandates Health Warnings on Every Single Cigarette
Canada will soon be the first country in the world to mandate that a ...
Bereaved Parents Weaponized by DEA to Back More Drug War
There is no grief like that of a parent who has lost a child. ...
