Philip Seymour Hoffman's Death in Line With Heroin Use Trends

Published February 6, 2014

Philip Seymour Hoffman's death in line with heroin use trends
Shane Darke, a professor at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at the University of NSW, said the medical community was seeing more deaths from heroin among people in their 40s, 50s and even 60s who had cycled in and out of treatment. "We … Read more on Sydney Morning Herald

Drug Addiction, Smoking Cessation Can Be Treated Concurrently
Approximately 89% of participants completed the 10-week active treatment part of the study, 85% completed the 3-month follow-up, and 79.6% completed the 6-month follow-up. These results were similar for both groups. Outcomes were measured by drug … Read more on Medscape

How Richard Nixon reinvented American warfare
Ostensibly its aim was to “influence world opinion to the point that Hanoi will feel compelled to afford proper treatment to U.S. POWs.” But Laird also had one eye fixed firmly on the … Drug abuse presented a similar problem. During 1970 and 1971 … Read more on Salon