UK Drug Policy Commission Recommends Decriminalizing Drug Use
Decriminalise drug use, say experts after six-year study A six-year study of Britain’s drug laws by leading scientists, police officers, academics and experts has concluded it is time to introduce...
View ArticlePrescription Drug Abuse in the USA
Some key findings from the Council of State Governments study on Prescription Drug Abuse in America (from 2004). The report is obviously a bit outdated but the problem continues to grow. More than 6.2...
View Article2012 National Drug Control Strategy for the USA
The USA has published their 2012 National Drug Control Strategy. The intro from President Obama includes: Illicit drug use in America contributed to an estimated $193 billion in crime, health, and lost...
View ArticleWhat Should Society Do About Drug Addicts That Are Not Seeking Treatment?
What to do about drug addicts that are not interested in treatment (yet?) is open to debate. Strict law enforcement would say that the government shouldn’t provide any support to those that are taking...
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The Causes of Drug Addiction are Complex
Comic panels, by Stuart McMillen, of the rat park drug addiction experiment, see the full comic. The causes of drug addiction are not simple. Like many medical issues they are a complex interaction of...
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The Death of Philip Seymour Hoffman Highlights the Increased Use of Heroin
We lost a great actor with the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman. Once again the danger of drug use has resulted in the loss of life. He sought treatment for his addiction but failed to avoid an untimely...
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The Success Rate of AA is Only 5-10%
The treatment of drug addiction continues to be difficult. Even finding data on success rates is hard. And analyzing that data is difficult (the data is not straight forward and leaves open many...
View ArticleDrug Addictions Often Disappear Over Time
This article includes links to many research studies, some linked to below, for the rest go to the full article. Most People With Addiction Simply Grow Out of It by Maia Szalavitz By age 35, half of...
View ArticleAlmost everything we think we know about addiction is wrong
Almost everything we think we know about addiction is wrong. … Addiction is just one symptom of the crisis of disconnection that is happening all around us. … The opposite of addiction is not...
View ArticleCocaine addiction: Scientists discover ‘back door’ into the brain
Individuals addicted to cocaine may have difficulty in controlling their addiction because of a previously-unknown ‘back door’ into the brain, circumventing their self-control, suggests a new study led...
View ArticlePresident Obama Proposes $1.1 Billion in New Funding to Address the...
President Obama’s Budget includes new mandatory funding to help ensure that all Americans who want treatment can get the help they need. I have posted the whole press release because if I link to it,...
View ArticleThe War on Drugs has been a Huge Failure with Massive Unintended Consequences
This webcast takes a look at our experience with the so-called “war on drugs.” The war on drugs has been a huge failure with massive unintended consequences. Policy needs to take into account results....
View ArticleSad Story Illustrates the Opioid Overdose Epidemic in the USA
This sad story illustrates the cost of the ongoing opioid overdose epidemic in the USA. A 7-year-old told her bus driver she couldn’t wake her parents. Police found them dead at home. For more than a...
View ArticleCreating Conditions That Reduce the Likelihood That Teenagers Will Abuse Drugs
Treating people with drug and alcohol addition is very difficult. Preventing many of them from becoming addicted in the first place is a good way to avoid many of the problems caused by drug and...
View ArticleVaccine That Blocks the High From Heroin is Making Progress
A vaccine developed at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) to block the high of heroin has proven effective in non-human primates. This is the first vaccine against an opioid to pass this stage of...
View ArticleFentanyl and Heroin are Killing Increasing Numbers of People
Fentanyl Surpasses Heroin As Drug Most Often Involved In Deadly Overdoses Researchers found that the rate of drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl (or one of its analogs) doubled each year from 2013...
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