Drugs
New study challenges the standard models of addiction
Does using alcohol, nicotine, or cannabis engender addiction by changing the structure of brains, or does the structure of brains incline some people toward using those substances? In standard brain disease models of…
Psychedelic church puts Utah’s religious freedom law to the test
When Bridger Lee Jensen opened a spiritual center in Provo, Utah, he contacted city officials to let them know the religious group he had founded, Singularism, would be conducting ceremonies involving a tea made from…
Senate Subcommittee Scrutinizes Olympic Doping Scandals
A Senate subcommittee on Tuesday heard a lack of confidence in the World Anti-Doping Agency’s ability to combat cheating at the Olympics. The hearing, “WADA Shame: Swimming in Denial Over Chinese Doping,” comes after an April…
Pharmacy Benefit Manager Parasites Drive Drug Costs Ever Higher
President Donald J. Trump is right. Too many pharmaceuticals are too damn high, especially compared to the flea-market prices that foreign patients pay for the same drugs. Dr. Wayne Winegarden, a senior fellow with the…
How freedom lovers can reckon with addicts and addiction
What Is It Like To Be an Addict? Understanding Substance Abuse, by Owen Flanagan, Oxford University Press, 320 pages, $24.99 Addiction is a problem that defenders of liberty need to face, for if citizens cannot control their…
Understand the economics of illegal drugs with ‘Schedule I’
Schedule I is a computer game that lets you rise from a lowly weed dealer to be Walter White or Tony Montana. More specifically, the game is a black market econ simulator in the tradition of Drug Wars—a buy-low-sell-high…
House Approves HALT Fentanyl Act With Bipartisan Support
The House passed the HALT Fentanyl Act on Thursday, sending the bill to President Donald Trump’s desk for his signature. “Fentanyl is a bioweapon, and this bill treats it like one,” Rep. Addison McDowell, R-N.C., whose…
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