Gender Issues and Drug Use

33 minute CBC podcast on Gender Issues and Drug Use

Starts with over-representation of males among opioid overdose patients.

CBC On Drugs series

Opioids harms overview document - useful citation

Link to FDA document on opioids harms.

(CM Dormitzer is NIDA T32 alumna.)

MDMA in the news

http://www.maps.org/news/media/6786-press-release-fda-grants-breakthrough-therapy-designation-for-mdma-assisted-psychotherapy-for-ptsd,-agrees-on-special-protocol-assessment-for-phase-3-trials

NIDA source for this image.

RCT in trials registry,

FDA designation of breakthrough therapy. 

AUGUST 25, 2017 This American War on Drugs

NPR On the Media podcast with short and mainly accurate portrayal of the US war on drugs.

It will help you understand racist origins and mistakes made in US drug policy, how Harry Anslinger used "race-baiting" to revise the US tax code to his advantage and to the disadvantage of laborers from Mexico, in an echo of prior local and state anti-opium ordinances used to control immigrant-labor from China, and gives a quick overview of CSA1970 Schedule I, but makes factual errors in places. (Treated more thoroughly in the 1974 book I mentioned about a month ago. Search this blog label: #history for a web link.)

Use search link for AUGUST 25, 2017 podcast in archives of On the Media, if this link does not take you to the 50 minute recording and download page:

This American War on Drugs

Take it on a walk or our stationary bike ride and listen while you get some exercise.

On Marijuana and its many names

Fugs: Marijuana

Posters of the era on sale via Pinterest (Shameless commercial mention so as to share culture of that era)

Time to discuss what epidemic means?

Dual meanings inside and outside of epidemiology.

An anonymous AJE reviewer recently objected to our mention of the current cannabis epidemic, and argued that it no longer is an epidemic, but rather is "endemic."

For a different perspective, see the CDC use of the term in this report from August 2016, and notice the trend in estimates:

 

 

Plus, an opinion recently voiced in a JAMA Viepoint article:

 

Standard epi definition is an unexpected increase in numbers of newly incident cases or in the incidence rate (i.e., relative to expectation based on prior estimates for that population).

And see Frost and Van Volkenburgh (1935) for a somewhat muddled exposition -- i.e. muddled because "prevalence" is not clearly differentiated from " incidence" in some paragraphs, but context makes the meaning clear:

 

 

Heroin in Habitina, 1910

 

Earlier JAMA post on Habitina and blindness.

Methanol as vehicle for delivery of morphing and heroin?