- An Alcoholic’s Savior: God, Belladonna or Both? (Not news, but interesting. May say something about Bill Wilson’s openness to LSD later in life.)
- Losing a voice of reason against ‘war on drugs’
- Soft war on drugs: Portugal shows how drug addiction, when treated as an illness and not as a crime, can be controlled effectively.
- Tanning bed usage can be as addictive as cannabis and alcohol (Ugh! I’ve said before that I worry about some of the neuroscience of drug addiction being replicated with all sorts of other compulsive behaviors. I don’t believe that this will prove those behaviors are brain diseases or that addiction is not. Just that we understand less about the mechanisms of addiction than we think we do.)
- Reason.tv: 3 Reasons to Legalize Pot Now! (I find the first half of number one to be a terrible reason for legalization.)
- Why is Disulfiram Superior to Acamprosate in the Routine Clinical Setting? (Given the underwhelming evidence for disulfiram, what does this say about acomprosate? Can’t get the full text yet.)