Obama Says Easing Marijuana Restrictions a Job for Congress
Obama has admitted to his own drug use as a student in his memoir, Dreams From My Father, writing of using marijuana and “maybe a little blow.” “But I do offer a …. You all know that marihuana is a legal term with a lengthy definition, right? You …
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Minnesota lawmakers strategize on curbs for synthetic drugs
PAUL — Minnesota legislators are ready to take another stab at curtailing the use of synthetic drugs. A House committee … the use of synthetic drugs: Expand the definition of drugs, giving the Pharmacy Board specific authority to deal with synthetic …
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Crazy Town: The Rob Ford story, exclusive excerpt of Robyn Doolittle's book
The Ford family has a long, unhappy history of substance abuse and criminal behaviour. Despite ….. More selfishly, I didn't want my whole career to be defined by a story for which the Star had paid one hundred thousand dollars to make happen. The …
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Obama, Who Evidently Has Not Read The Controlled Substances Act, Denies …
Now that contradicts the official Obama administration policy, both on the website of the Office of National Drug Control Policy and also the fact that marijuana is considered a Schedule I narcotic, along with heroin and Ecstasy. Now do you think you …
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Addiction Complicates Treatment of PTSD
A huge number of those who abuse drugs have suffered, or currently suffer from post traumatic stress disorder — the abuse of substances is often a way of coping with the symptoms of PTSD, or becomes a further addiction because of the way that …
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Can Ritalin Cure Cocaine Addiction? ADHD Drug Helps Coke Addicts Quell …
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, cocaine works by causing dopamine, a feel-good chemical in our brains, to flood our brain circuits. Normally, neurons release dopamine in response to "potential rewards," like smelling good food. The …
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Marijuana Legalization Gains Support, Confounding Policymakers
"We're on this hundred-mile-an-hour freight train to legalizing a third addictive substance," says Kevin Sabet, a former drug policy adviser in the Obama administration, lumping marijuana with tobacco and alcohol. Legalization strategist Ethan …
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Broken Family Bonds and Addiction
Most addicts get into drugs and alcohol to suppress some type of trauma that they went through. I had the pleasure of talking to "Jillian", a woman in recovery who went through traumatic events that has caused her an amazing amount of pain and …
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David Sheff: Watching my son become a drug addict
Yet despite that, his two sons became addicts. “I was the addiction expert,” says McLellan, founder of the Treatment Research Institute and former deputy director of the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy in the Obama administration. “But I …
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Jeremy Browne sets off on global drugs policy research tour
The Guardian gives a good round up of the drugs policies in operation on the stops on Jeremy's tour, from Portugal's decriminalisation to Sweden's zero tolerance and Denmark's regulated rooms where addicts can inject themselves. * Caron Lindsay is …
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Prescription Painkillers Linked to Erectile Dysfunction
However, the findings add to a growing body of research linking pain drugs to erection problems. … that opioid treatment is appropriate for some people, there's increased evidence that prolonged use can cause a host of problems, including addiction …
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