Tag: mental health

    How I Quit Heroin and Why That Hasn’t Fixed My Life

    There exists a common misconception that if a person uses illicit drugs, all of ...

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    Alex Mauri

    English Councils Improve Smoking Cessation Work Despite Funding Cuts

    A survey published by Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) and Cancer Research UK ...

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    Alex Norcia

    Alcohol and Dementia: Why the Evidence Has Been Suppressed  

    A familiar substance has repeatedly been associated with protection against dementia. But we’re not ...

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    Stanton Peele

    Canada Allows Three Mental Health Patients to Access Psilocybin Therapy

    Canada’s top health agency has agreed to allow an additional three people to use ...

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    Alexander Lekhtman

    New Orleans Result Could Increase Reformers’ Focus on Sheriff Elections

    Since 2015, both Big Philanthropy funders and progressive grassroots activists have targeted local district ...

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    Rory Fleming

    People Changed the Ways They Use Drugs During the Pandemic

    The 2021 Global Drug Survey (GDS), the newly published report from the largest annual ...

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    Alex Norcia

    Warn That Alcohol Causes Cancer? Add That Drinkers Live Longer.

    “There is no safe level of alcohol,” WHO Europe headlined in 2018. “Zero alcohol ...

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    Stanton Peele

    In Canada, End-of-Life Therapy May Be the Path to Legal Psilocybin

    In August 2020, 53-year-old Thomas Hartle became the first Canadian to legally undergo psilocybin-assisted ...

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    Ritika Dubey

    Psychedelics’ Exciting Potential to Benefit Autistic People

    [This article is published in collaboration with Narcotica, a podcast about drugs and the ...

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    Troy Farah

    There Was Nothing “Wasted” About My Youth Spent Clubbing on Ecstasy

    Some of us who spent a lot of time using drugs in our youth ...

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    Kiran Sidhu