Drugs

Can an online market for meth, smack and pot win?

An Internet marketplace for drugs called Silk Road is continuing to profit despite legal attempts to shut it down

Jeb Boone, GlobalPost Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 12:38 PM UTC
Life GlobalPost, eBay, Drugs

Is porn addiction real?

A video reveals that compulsively watching porn can have the same effect on the brain as drug or alcohol addiction VIDEO

Bryan Le, The Fix Friday, Feb 22, 2013 4:00 PM UTC 22
Technology The Fix, Science, technology, porn

Drug overdose deaths up for 11th consecutive year

Federal data shows that most of them were accidents involving painkillers

Thomas Frieden, Associated Press Tuesday, Feb 19, 2013 10:57 PM UTC 19
Life Drugs

Getting prescription meds right

If drugs like Adderall help some people and harm others, why do reports on the drug skew one way or the other?

Maia Svalavitz, The Fix Monday, Feb 18, 2013 4:00 PM UTC 12
Life The Fix, addiction, Drugs, Media

Confessions of a pot addict

After 13 years of daily use, I stopped smoking weed. But quitting only made me feel better about the drug

M. Welch Monday, Feb 18, 2013 2:00 AM UTC 157
Life marijuana, Drugs, addiction

Meet the quarterback of the new anti-drug movement

Kevin Sabet was a drug control adviser to three presidents and is now marshaling the counterrevolution

Alex Seitz-Wald Wednesday, Feb 13, 2013 8:33 AM UTC 51
Politics Marijuana Legalization

Study: Earning less than your wife is bad for your libido

Research in Denmark finds that husbands of female breadwinners are more likely to use erectile dysfunction drugs

Tom Jacobs, Pacific Standard Wednesday, Feb 6, 2013 6:38 PM UTC
Social Pacific Standard, Marriage

FDA allows generic version of scarce cancer drug

Regulators say approval of the first generic version of cancer drug Doxil will help resolve a lingering shortage

Associated Press Monday, Feb 4, 2013 11:19 PM UTC
Life Cancer, Drugs, Medicine, FDA

Can magic mushrooms help cancer patients?

Researchers claim hallucinogenic "shrooms" may ease the disease's psychological side effects

Sarah Beller, The Fix Monday, Feb 4, 2013 9:21 PM UTC
Life The Fix, Magic Mushrooms, Cancer

Dozens interested in pot consultancy gig

Would a felony conviction be a dealbreaker? It depends VIDEO

Associated Press Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 5:14 PM UTC
Life Video, aol_on, Washington

Cissy Houston will never be a PFLAG parent

Oprah gets Whitney Houston's mother to open up, and can't quite believe what she hears

Kera Bolonik Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 1:57 PM UTC 23
Entertainment Oprah, Whitney Houston, TV

“Girls” recap: The contact high

A dubious writing assignment pushes Hannah out of her comfort zone so she can discover "where the magic happens"

Lizzie Skurnick Monday, Jan 28, 2013 4:00 AM UTC
Entertainment Girls, Lena Dunham, HBO, TV

Kentucky neo-Nazis charged in gruesome murder, dismemberment

The accused killers are being held without bail for kidnapping, murder and abuse of a corpse among other charges

Don Terry, Southern Poverty Law Center Saturday, Jan 26, 2013 3:00 PM UTC 23
News Southern Poverty Law Center

The hospital tech who stole needles

The twisted story of a technician who worked at dozens of U.S. hospitals -- and infected countless patients

Jennifer Matesa, The Fix Monday, Jan 21, 2013 5:00 PM UTC
Life The Fix, Michigan

Lance Armstrong’s unmoving confession

The cyclist admits to doping in a controlled interview with Oprah — and offers the lamest of apologies

Willa Paskin Friday, Jan 18, 2013 2:30 PM UTC 34
Entertainment Lance Armstrong, Oprah

Actually, pot may not lower IQ after all

A paper refuting a previous study on marijuana use reveals the difficulty of separating pot science from politics

Tony O'Neill, The Fix Tuesday, Jan 15, 2013 11:38 PM UTC
News The Fix, marijuana

My own sober miracle

I used to scoff when sober zealots talked about "waiting for the miracle." When mine arrived, I became a believer

Nic Sheff, The Fix Saturday, Jan 12, 2013 4:00 PM UTC
Life The Fix, AA, Drugs, Recovery

White House responds on pot

Obama's drug czar concedes it's a "national conversation" but still won't commit on federal legalization

David Sirota Wednesday, Jan 9, 2013 1:03 PM UTC 38
News marijuana, Barack Obama, Drugs

My year of heroin and acne

I was 25 and living with Dad. I wasn't in the clubs, I was in my room. And the worse my skin got, the more I used

Chloe Caldwell Saturday, Jan 5, 2013 12:30 AM UTC 46
Life Life stories, addiction, Drugs

Marijuana smoothie, anyone?

With the drug now legal in Washington and Colorado, blended cannabis could become the health food craze of 2013

Laura Gottesdiener, Alternet Thursday, Jan 3, 2013 4:25 PM UTC
Life AlterNet, marijuana, Washington

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