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Methadone maintenance therapy versus no opioid replacement therapy for opioid dependence - The metareview notes that there were few attempts to measure improvements in wellbeing. Alcohol-Induced Blackout - Are they predictive of dependence? Parity to...
I read this Ta-Nehisi Coates post yesterday on domestic violence, responsibility, individual agency, community, shame, isolation and empowerment. It's really stuck with me. Very heavy, heady stuff in a very short post.
It got me thinking about some of...
An interesting explanation of dopamine's function--distinguishing drive and motivation from pleasure and reward:
In the emerging view, discussed in part at the Society for Neuroscience meeting last week in Chicago, dopamine is less about pleasure and...
Encouraging findings for people trying to quit smoking:
Smokers are more than twice as likely to quit if they use the nicotine patch along with nicotine lozenges—compared to lozenges or patches alone, buproprion (Xyban), buproprion plus the lozenges...
