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Drugs

CBD Could Be A Key to Treating Addiction Long-Term, Studies Show

More notably, perhaps, was that CBD seemed to reverse a change in the mice’s dopamine neurons associated with cocaine priming.
By Chris Roberts
John Swab directed Body Brokers

John Swab Made ‘Body Brokers’ After He Met Real Drug-Rehab Scam Artists

"Ironically," the director tells Observer, they "were really excited to share their story about what they were doing."
By Valentina Valentini
A budtender rolls a joint.

COVID Is Killing the Cocaine Market, But People Are Smoking More Weed

One finding among the study’s results is consistent with other drug-use surveys from around the world, nearly all of which show that people are using more cannabis in lockdown.
By Chris Roberts

New Magic Mushrooms Could Fix Depression, Addiction, Epilepsy, and More

By Chris Roberts

Why Magic Mushrooms Are The Next Big Booming (and Legal!) Drug Market

By Andy Hirschfeld

LA Ambition Rules in ‘Vagablonde,’ the Story of a Lawyer Who Dreams of Becoming a Rapper

By Greta Rainbow

Trump Praises German Shepherds as ‘Greatest’ Border Security Equipment

By Davis Richardson
The first day of the legalization of recreational marijuana sales in California was on Jan. 1, 2018.

Kirsten Gillibrand Signs Onto Cory Booker’s Marijuana Legalization Bill

By Madina Toure
New York Marijuana Legalization

Is New York on Its Way to Legalizing Marijuana?

By Madina Toure
A sign for Naloxone hangs on a wall as students learn to put together a Naloxone spray gun in a class on opioid overdose prevention held by non-profit Positive Health Project on Aug. 9, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

New York City Sues Big Pharma for $500 Million Over Opioid Epidemic

By Madina Toure
Communities nationwide are struggling with the unprecidented opioid pain pill and heroin addiction epidemic.

Three-Quarters of Americans Are Self-Medicating Pain

By Heather Senior Monroe
A heroin user holds suboxone near where John Jay College of Criminal Justice students are interviewing heroin users as part of a project to interview Bronx drug users in order to compile data about overdoses on August 8, 2017.

How Big Pharma Is Hindering Treatment of the Opioid Addiction Epidemic

By Robin Feldman
How can anyone or any entity obtain a patent on a living substance that grows in the wild and has been known for about 5,000 years?

Pot With Patents Could Plant the Seeds of Future Lawsuits

By Craig Nard
Those keypads are teeming with microbes.

ATMs Dispense More Than Money: The Dirt and Dope That’s on Your Cash

By Johanna Ohm and Andrew Read
The digital age has changed the nature of addictions in millennials.

Social Media Is as Harmful as Alcohol and Drugs for Millennials

By Tony Rao
Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead Finally Get the Documentary They Deserve

By John Kruth
A research specialist tests body fluids searching for evidence of the Zika virus on June 28, 2016.

Scott Gottlieb for FDA Is a Big Win for Science

By John Crowley
A digital representation of the human genome August 15, 2001 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

The US Has Slowed the Pace of Drug Approval and It’s Costing Lives

By John Crowley
Fat Mike performing with NOFX.

NOFX Fight America’s Most Dangerous Drug Dealers—Big Pharma

By Mischa Pearlman
Amy Winehouse

Don’t Romanticize Amy Winehouse’s Life, Death, or Her Music

By Justin Joffe
Ben Sinclair on High Maintenance.

Pop Psych: ‘High Maintenance’ Shows How Your Dealer is Raising Your Kids

By James Cole Abrams
An FDNY ambulance.

City Mourns Loss of FDNY Battalion Chief in Bronx Explosion

By Madina Toure
Swans.

Michael Gira on ‘Dangling Off the Edge of a Cliff’ for Swans’ Epic Final Album

By Jordan N. Mamone
The Beach Boys.

This Is Your Brain on ‘Pet Sounds’

By Tim Sommer
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