December 23, 2021
Drug and alcohol addictions (now more properly called substance use disorders or SUDs) afflict a significant proportion of the American population today. According to NIDA’s National Survey […]
December 21, 2021
The focus of the American Drug War has shifted radically since it was declared in the 1970s, from marijuana to cocaine to fentanyl. Marijuana is often […]
December 9, 2021
Most of us have heard that alcohol “kills your brain cells”. But what actually happens to your brain when you drink alcohol, and how does alcohol […]
November 25, 2021
Probably. Given that we now know that biological adolescence ends at 25, there are even some who are clamoring to raise it even further, by four […]
November 11, 2021
Thanks to the high concentration of colleges and universities here in the Greater Boston area, most locals are keenly aware that many college students have problematic […]
November 9, 2021
In the past few years, the sedative ketamine has received considerable hype as some kind of mind-opening wonder drug. While it’s true that recent studies have […]
November 2, 2021
Prozac (generic name fluoxetine) is one of the most prescribed psychiatric medications in the United States. In 2019, it was prescribed 27,110,302 times to 5,143,421 patients, […]
October 21, 2021
Substance use disorder (SUD) is the term used in the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) to covers the mental […]
October 19, 2021
“End-stage alcoholism” is an outdated though still widely-used term used to describe advanced alcohol use disorder (AUD). While still used among laypeople and some medical professionals, […]