By Paul M. Wax

ABSTRACT
The explosive growth of the Internet in recent years has provided a revolutionary new means of interpersonal communication and connectivity. Information on recreational drugs—once limited to bookstores, libraries, mass media, and personal contacts—is now readily available to just about anyone with Internet access. Not surprising, Internet access greatly facilitates the free and [...]

The editors of two journals that provide objective scientific investigations of controversial and largely untested medical and mental health practices have criticized proposed research using the drug MDMA (Ecstasy) as a treatment for post traumatic stress disorder. The study, “MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Post traumatic Stress Disorder”, is awaiting final MDMA licensing approval [...]

“Homeopathy is based on the concept that the more we dilute a poisonous herb (down to an infinitely low dose), the more potent it will become for related diseases. For example, too much caffeine may give you a sleeping problem. The principle of homeopathy is that the more a caffeine pill is diluted, the better [...]

“Urine was popular folk medicine throughout the seventeenth century. Thorndike gives many referneces. Emmanuel König, of Basel, in his book The Animal Kingdom (1683) recommended drinking one’s urine to heal heartburn, depressiion, gout, toothaches, colic, jaundice, and high fevers. Daniel Bockher, a German physician, in 1622 published a popular work titled Medicus Microcosmos. It priases [...]

By Janet Lapey

From: Marihuana, The Harrison Act and The Supreme Court, February, 2001
The Harrison Act of 1914 was initiated by Theodore Roosevelt and his health advisers, Dr. Alexander Wiley and Dr. Hamilton Wright, at the turn of the century. The Act banned the use of opiates and cocaine and interdicted their use in the treatment [...]

By Janet D. Lapey

Professor Miron claims that the benefits of smoking marijuana outweigh any potential harms (The Massachusetts News, February 2000). This view is not shared by our nation’s top public health official, Dr. Donna Shalala, who has stated, “Research tells us marijuana limits learning, memory, perception, judgment, and motor skills, and it damages the [...]

(Ottawa) - Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada (PSC) delivered a ‘Weedless Wednesday’ message to Health Minister Anne McLellan, asking her to abandon Health Canada’s current marijuana program and replace it with one that does not involve inhaling marijuana smoke.
“Like tobacco smoke, marijuana smoke causes severe lung damage.” said Dr. Atul Kapur. Dr. Kapur is an [...]

By Patrick Zickler

Cocaine abusers are more likely than nonusers to suffer from HIV, hepatitis, sexually transmitted diseases, and other infections. Most of this increased incidence is the result of conditions and behaviors–for example, injecting drugs, poor nutrition, and unsafe sex–that often are associated with drug abuse. Now, NIDA-supported investigators at the McLean Hospital Alcohol and [...]

Teens who use drugs or are sexually active are more likely to later become clinically depressed, according to a report from the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE).
Depression may be the result, rather than the cause, of risky teen behaviors. “Findings from the study show depression came after substance and sexual activity, not the [...]

What is the big deal about cutting a few lines of coke now and then? In many places, occasional cocaine use is on the rise and people see the risks as minimal compared to heroin or ecstasy use. However, today’s evidence proves that dealing with cocaine
 

Researchers have taken pictures of cocaine using brains and non-cocaine [...]