Notorious was having a little conversation with some friends, and someone asked a strange question: why would one want to abuse over-the-counter (OTC) medications such as Robitussin? OTC cold medication abuse is pretty common and the subject of considerable comment in pop culture — not the least of which are a great song by MC […]
Awesome blog friend JLK just sent me this link. I can’t be more amused. The life of a bee on cocaine. Does it get any better? And Ed (yes, you, ED) has beaten me to the Friday Weird Science! He’s got an awesome article on the traumatic insemination practices of spiders. Ya’ll probably read him […]
We do lots of animal studies with addictive drugs, why do we need to be giving it to humans?
A couple of contradictory self-administration studies and some studies on dopamine effects in the brain, in this case, just isn’t enough to prove the drug “addictive”. And is modafinil the next cocaine? Probably not.
About a week ago, a prof in my MRU loaned me a book he’d just read, saying it would be right up my alley. He was very right. I couldn’t put it down. It’s already changed a great deal about the way that I think about addiction, as well as the way I think about […]
In the second out of three possible papers for journal club, I got this paper courtesy of Physioprof. And I’m very glad he sent it to me. I get tons of Tables of Contents in my inbox every day, but I tend not to go through them until I need a paper for Journal Club. […]
I’ll admit, life’s been crazy around here. Barely enough time to check the blogs what with prepping for ScienceOnline ’09 (Everyone come to my Blogging on the History of Science panel!), prepping everything in the lab so the lab continues to run while I’m AT ScienceOnline ’09, and keeping the hot science running on a […]
Does the name Korsakoff ring any bells for you? How about Wernicke? And what about Wernicke-Korsakoff? Ok, it may not mean much to you right now (except as a hyphenated name guaranteed to give some poor kid fits when they have to fill in the bubbles on the SAT), but after today, I hope it […]
The winners of Open Lab 2008 are finally out! Thanks to all of you that submitted entries on our behalf, we actually had seven entries up! And it turns out, one got in! It’s that post of mine that never seems to go away “Uber Coca, by Sigmund Freud“. I’m completely thrilled that I made […]
I posted last night (you can tell this is serious, I really am blogging on the weekend!) about the concept of “Prozac withdrawal”. I drew a little heat from Drugmonkey about this, due to the distinction I used between “physical” and “psychological” addiction. I’ll repost what he said here: Physical addiction should be distinguished from […]