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Overdose Deaths Hit a Record High
I just read a news story that drug overdose deaths nationally reached a new high in 2021 of 107,000, up 15% from 2020—and 2020 was up 30% from 2019. It was not a “major” news story, it was overshadowed...
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Is It Bad to Still Believe In Personal Responsibility?
For a long time, I’ve taken the conventional left-wing perspective on personal responsibility: that it was wrong. I was afforded plenty of privileges and lucky breaks in society that allow me to have...
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Why It’s a Must to Overcome the Burdens of Past Traumas
It’s important to give thanks for the blessings and opportunities that God has afforded us (which is a phenomenal thing); and realize how much our past traumas have shaped and molded our way of...
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How Do Drugs Know Where To Go in the Body? A Pharmaceutical Scientist...
By Tom Anchordoquy, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus When you take aspirin for a headache, how does the aspirin know to travel to your head and alleviate the pain? The short answer is, it...
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The Last Thing I Wrote Before Rehab
I’ve waited some time to share this — I always intended to wait “long enough.”I’m better now, but they tell me I’ll never be better. Not truly. As the big day approached, I needed to mark the occasion...
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Healer in Training, Part 7
Listen to Your Body Dr. H came into the room at about 10:00 pm that Friday night. By then, my four-day headache and puffed temporal vein had subsided. I had taken two Aleve’s five hours prior, when I...
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Addiction and Ways to Overcome It
Addiction is compulsive drug-seeking behaviour. It causes long-lasting changes in the brain. During addiction, a person can’t stop using a substance or engaging in a behaviour even though the user...
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Drugs – 4 Essential Reads on How They’re Made, How They Work and How Context...
By Vivian Lam, The Conversation Pandemics and disease outbreaks put a spotlight on the hurdles researchers face to get a drug on the shelves. From finding prospective drug candidates to balancing time...
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Why Are You Marching?
On the surface, Peaky Blinders is a show about an early 20th century family of gypsies and petty criminals rising to build an international, respected, far-reaching yet still criminal empire. Actually,...
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It’s Time to Stop Chasing and Start Creating, Start With These 3 Simple Steps
Humans are hardwired to avoid and escape pain. As such, we seek the fastest, most efficient route to avoid and escape. We seek short-term fixes in lieu of long-term solutions and inner peace. When our...
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Can Eating Poppy Seeds Affect Drug Test Results? An Addiction and Pain...
By Gary Reisfield, University of Florida The U.S. Defense Department issued a memo on Feb. 17, 2023, warning service members to avoid eating poppy seeds because doing so may result in a positive urine...
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Diet vs. Drugs – Comparing the Effects of Diet With Leading Pharmaceuticals
By Mary Sco. In 440 B.C., Hippocrates famously said “Let food be thy medicine.” More than 2,000 years later, the evidence to substantiate this statement has never been more robust. Research has...
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Drugs, Drugs, and More Drug Crime. Isn’t It Time for the Philippines to Have...
By Pressenza Philippines By Karina Santillan (Manila) and Tony Robinson (London) Illegal drugs are an issue that’s wider than the drug smugglers and cartels who bring them into the country and the...
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Odysseus at San Quentin
The opening of The Odyssey describes Odysseus as polytropos, a man “much turned” and “much turning.” He makes much happen, and much happens to him. When I selected The Odyssey as the first text for my...
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Blame Capitalism? Why Hundreds of Decades-Old Yet Vital Drugs Are Nearly...
By Geoffrey Joyce, University of Southern California Past public ire over high drug prices has recently taken a back seat to a more insidious problem – no drugs at any price. Patients and their...
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This Is Your Life, on Motherhood
You have no idea what will happen when you hold a baby for the first time. But, something in you says that you need this. This is what true happiness looks like. Yes! Gosh, maybe your marriage will...
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Brain Science—Mapping Impulses for Homelessness, Mental Disorder, Addiction...
There is a recent article, Hard facts on drugs, mental illness must be faced, stating that, “The chronically homeless are dying on our streets, in our parks, on our trains. A large and highly visible...
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Colon, Colon, Who’s Got the Colon
Colon. Not to be confused with colon: The kind you use to precede a listicle. The kind Susan Brearley hates. Or maybe that’s just semi-colons, or ellipses. Not to be confused with epithelial cells...
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From Prohibition to the Opioid Crisis
By Chris Slee Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge By Benjamin Yen Yi Fong London: Verso, 2023 264pp In the opening page of his 2023 book, Quick Fixes: Drugs in...
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Drugs of the Future Will Be Easier and Faster To Make, Thanks to Mrna – After...
By Li Li, UMass Chan Medical School Vaccines have been reliably and affordably protecting people from diseases worldwide for centuries. Until the COVID-19 pandemic, however, vaccine development was...
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