Articles tagged "heroin"

A promising new vaccine goes after heroin as soon as it hits the bloodstream, negating the effect of the hit, and (hopefully) keeping addicts from a full-on backslide.

There is a desperate need for drugs that reduce cravings in drug addicts, drugs that might function in ways radically different from the current addiction treatment arsenal.

You don't have to be able to see through stone to realize just how fucked the American prison system is. Where to even begin? There are the insane profits reaped by "private prisons":http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/22/opinion/krugman-prisons-priva…

For a semi-illiterate grammar school dropout, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is a bloody mastermind. Guzmán, 55, sits atop Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, which by all accounts is arguably the richest, most powerful crime syndicate in history. That's him on…

Memories aren’t immutable, recalled moments from your past just sitting on the dusty shelves of your brain. They are fluid impressions, and each time you retrieve a memory you alter it. Current research into how memory retrieval works is allowing sci…

The international war on drugs continues to rage, with opium poppies extending a slow but steady comeback trend dating back to 2006. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime "reports":http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/frontpage/2012/January/afg…

The constant bloody noses, bloodshot eyes and complete lack of meaningful sleep earned in attempts to be cool may soon be a thing of the past. Devin Mueller and James Otis at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee "have discovered":http://www.ncbi…