Posts Tagged ‘drug abuse’

Cognitive Vigilance, Stress, and Addiction

Last updated 23rd July 2008

How does catching our own errors and correcting them protect us from stress? Can doing so also protect us from addiction?

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Why Not Have Drug-Free Prisons?

Last updated 9th June 2008

A damning report from leading ‘neoliberal’ think tank the Centre for Policy Studies takes the UK government to task for being more interested in managing the problem of illicit drug use in prisons than in eradicating it. The problem, according to the report, is that no one in authority understands the prison drugs market.

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Cannabis Use, Psychosis Risk and Basic Science

Last updated 27th July 2007

Headline writers are having a field day with the results of a meta-analysis to be published in The Lancet which found that cannabis users are 40% more likely than non-users to develop psychotic symptoms. Radio, print, and internet publications urge that more must be done to warn the public of the risks of cannabis use. But hold on, did the headline writers miss the lesson on correlation vs. causation in their Science for Journalists class?

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