Tag: science
The False Claim That Addiction Is “All About the Dopamine”
It seems today that everyone and their brother knows about the dopamine hypothesis of ...
Approaching COVID Vaccine Hesitancy in People Who Use Drugs
One of the many harms of the stigma society inflicts on marginalized people who ...
Naltrexone for Alcohol Use Disorder: Weighing Up the Sinclair Method
Naltrexone is an opioid antagonist that’s available most commonly as a 50 mg oral ...
How Student Activists Sparked North Carolina’s Psychedelics Bill
North Carolina lawmakers are advancing a bill to authorize research into psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. If ...
Feds License University to Grow Psilocybin Mushrooms for Research
The federal government has finally licensed a university to legally grow psilocybin “magic” mushrooms. ...
How DMT Generates “Novel Worlds” of Experience
A new study may give us the most detailed understanding yet of how psychedelic ...
The Story of Aversion Therapy for Alcohol Use Disorder
On June 30, 2022, Schick Shadel Hospital in Burien, Washington, closed its doors for ...
Evidence Is In on Vapes as Smoking Cessation. Now We Need Urgency.
In a comment published in Nature Medicine, four leading researchers marshal the evidence that ...
Lack of Person-Centered Research Impedes Rural Access to OUD Meds
Across the United States, people face many barriers to accessing medications for opioid use ...
Epigenetics, Trauma and Addiction: What We Do and Don’t Know
Ever since Gabor Maté discussed epigenetics in his book In the Realm of Hungry ...
