Westminster Skeptics – Thinking critically about addiction
For any of our London followers, you might like to join us at the Westminster Skeptics this Monday evening. Author Tania Glyde will discussing her own post-drinking memoir ‘Cleaning Up‘. Thinking...
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A brief history of LSD
The elves of Erowid have just sent out another issue of their monthly newsletter. And include a link to a short graphic history of the discovery of LSD. Chemical Salvation? by Jack C. Trick (PDF) It is...
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My Lady Nicotine, by J. M. Barrie.
Perhaps, like me you thought Alan Carr had written the book on smoking. But before there was The Easy Way to Stop Smoking, there was My Lady Nicotine by JM Barrie. Written 14 years before Peter Pan,...
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Faces of Addiction – Chris Arnade
Faces of Addiction. Vanessa: Hunts Point, Bronx Vanessa, thirty-five, had three children with an abusive husband. She “lost her mind, started doing heroin,” after losing the children, who were taken...
View ArticleBryony Kimmings: 7 day drunk at Soho Theatre
Booze? Scientists? Experiments? Creativity? This is exactly our kind of thing. The tickets are already booked! 7 DAY DRUNK is a show created by Bryony Kimmings during a 7 day alcohol experiment,...
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ISCD Student Smart Drug Study
The Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs have a new survey. They are interested in student attitudes to smart drugs and cognitive enhancement. Please share this with any students you know. This...
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Imaging the brain on psychedelics – Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris
Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris is one of the first researchers in 40 years to be allowed to investigate the effects of psychedelic drugs. He used a FMI brain imager to study the resting state activation in...
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The surprising effectiveness of medical marijuana
The other highly surprising thing I learnt at the recent SSDP UK conference was just how amazingly effective cannabis is as a medicine. Obviously, I knew that marijuana was available as ‘medicine’ in...
View ArticleYour Brain on Alcohol – Explained
Here’s a wonderfully little video about what alcohol does to your brain. It is the latest in a sequence of short science videos made by ASAP Science. A previous video explained Marijuana. This one...
View ArticleDrugs Quote #022 – Frank Zappa wasn’t on drugs.
The general assumption is that rock stars who don’t take drugs have either taken so many they’ve got bored or ill that they were forced to stop, or they are just a bit boring. As an exception that...
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