Public health in the news

Charleston, WVA, closing its needle exchange program.

Heroin history

Seniors toking up

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-seniors-joined-the-cannabis-craze

cannabis

NYT speaks about opioids.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/21/opinion/an-opioid-crisis-foretold.html?action=click&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=Article&region=Footer&contentCollection=Sunday%20Review

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Digest what you can learn.

Write it, in your own words.

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Opioids. A courageous public analysisof the crisis. Do they understand it? Do you understand it?

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/can-washington-fix-the-opioid-crisis

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Canada and Marijuana: An Entirely New Meaning for the Slang Term: “SH*T”

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/04/13/599747395/canada-to-measure-marijuana-use-by-testing-sewage

Slang terms for cannabis:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dank%20shit

Bonnie and Whitehead: Cannabis Classic

Great images

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/opinion/high-time-federal-marijuana-ban-is-rooted-in-myth.html

Psychedelics issue: ACNP journal, etc.

Belouin &Henningfield lead article, Feb 2018

Plus a “dark classic” in ACS Chem Neuroscience: Nichols, (March 2018): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29476779

Plus two recent RCT with LSD: 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5420386/

Formication (or fornication)?

Link to an article on formication that you can use to link to other history of neuropsychopharmacology resources.

Hard and soft drugs: reasons to avoid using these terms

Link to a critique, Janek et al., 2017

To cite this article: Peter Janik, Michaela Kosticova, Jan Pecenak Prof & Michal Turcek (2017) Categorization of psychoactive substances into “hard drugs” and “soft drugs”: a critical review of terminology used in current scientific literature, The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 43:6, 636-646, DOI: 10.1080/00952990.2017.1335736

Stigma and drugs

NORC poll on the topic.

Surgeon General sees multiple overdoses as a system failure, not a moral failing.

The X-Plan: ripe for a group-randomized trial.

DP5 material

New forms of nicotine products in the news.

Some epidemiological evidence in that article.

Anyone done a case-crossover study yet?

Vaping nicotine in schools

One hopes that some parts of this news report are untrue

Industry influence on alcohol research

Opioids, cannabis, and pain: Use STROBE to analyze.

What is missing?

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