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Sons of Cocaine-Using Fathers May Resist Addiction to Drug, Penn Medicine

...  of Cocaine-Using Fathers May Resist Addiction to Drug, Penn Medicine … SAN DIEGO — A father's cocaine use may make his sons less sensitive to the drug and thereby more likely to resist addictive behaviors, suggests new findings from… Continue reading

Confronting California's Abuse of Solitary

...  solitary Psychological studies consistently show that solitary confinement can wreak distinctive harms on prisoners, including heightened symptoms of hopelessness, depression, hallucinations, self-mutilation, suicidal ideation and suicidal acts. And a 2008 … Read more on San Francisco Bay View What… Continue reading

Letters: Key to Drug Prevention Is Support, Early Intervention

...  Key to drug prevention is support, early intervention The recent article citing the coroner's information on the heroin epidemic is alarming, and certainly in keeping with what I am seeing in the patients I treat. I am an addictionologist… Continue reading

Is the War Against Drug Abuse a Good Topic for a Research Paper? if So What Would Be a Good Hypothesis for It?

...  manipulative brilliance and stewardship of "Dark Politics" and even a twisted love poem from Toronto's own villainelle, Lynn Crosbie. And kudos to Shawn …. But the spousal excuse of … Read more on Huffington Post Canada Cops Warn Parents:… Continue reading

How I Write: Jared Diamond

...  I Write: Jared Diamond Every time people have tried to show me how to use a computer, I've grown frustrated and given up. world-yesterday-diamond- … I don't walk under ladders, not because of any superstition, but because I've looked… Continue reading

A Family Member That You’re Not That Close to Is Dangerously Involved With Drugs. What Would You Do?

Question by Tara: A family member that you’re not that close to is dangerously involved with drugs. What would you do? Talking to this person is not an option; this person is destructive to everyone including herself. She has major… Continue reading