9 Best Articles in 2021
The Guardian
Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?
The Guardian
~19 min read · 136 saves · From 2017 · The long read: Since it decriminalised all drugs in 2001, Portugal has seen dramatic drops in overdoses, HIV infection and drug-related crime
The Guardian
We can no longer ignore the potential of psychedelic drugs to treat depression
The Guardian
5 min read · 281 saves · 2020-06-08 · At Imperial College we’ve been comparing psilocybin to conventional drugs – and the results are potentially game-changing, says Robin Carhart-Harris
Aeon+Psyche
How each generation gets the drugs it deserves
Aeon+Psyche
~14 min read · 70 saves · From 2017 · LSD in the ’60s; ecstasy in the ’80s; ‘smart’ drugs today: how we get high reflects the desires and fears of our times
Reveal
Immigrant children forcibly injected with drugs, lawsuit claims
Reveal
8 min read · 34 saves · From 2018 · New legal filings show immigrant children in U.S. custody are subdued with powerful psychiatric drugs.
Nature
First hint that body’s ‘biological age’ can be reversed
Nature
3 min read · 246 saves · 2019-09-05 · In a small trial, a cocktail of drugs seemed to rejuvenate the body’s ‘epigenetic clock’.
HuffPost
The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think
HuffPost
~13 min read · 112 saves · From 2017 · It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned -- and all through this long century of waging war on drugs, we have been told a story about ad...
ProPublica
The Myth of Drug Expiration Dates
ProPublica
~13 min read · 118 saves · From 2017 · Hospitals and pharmacies are required to toss expired drugs, no matter how expensive or vital. Meanwhile the FDA has long known that many remain safe and potent for years longer.
Harper's Magazine
[Report] | Legalize It All, by Dan Baum
Harper's Magazine
20+ min read · 59 saves · From 2016 · How to win the war on drugs
Aeon+Psyche
The lure of ‘cool’ brain research is stifling psychotherapy
Aeon+Psyche
4 min read · 97 saves · 2020-03-04 · The lure of ‘cool’ brain research – and psychotropic drugs – are stifling psychotherapy. Has bioreductionism gone too far?
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Futurism
Neuralink Co-Founder Has an Idea for a New Religion Based on Drugs
Futurism
2 min read · 59 saves · Mar 24th
Science Magazine
New immunotherapy drugs target two evasive cancer-driving proteins
Science Magazine
3 min read · 49 saves · Mar 1st · Bispecific antibodies show promise in mice against hard-to-treat tumors
Salon
Opinion: The mental health industry doesn't know what it's doing with psychedelic drug studies
Salon
10 min read · 50 saves · Mar 6th · Two psychedelic advocates say that the mental health-industrial complex is not equipped to study drugs like ketamine and MDMA
CNN
Everything old is new again: Repurposing drugs to treat Covid-19
CNN
8 min read · Feb 27th · The practice of finding new uses for old medications -- called repurposing or repositioning drugs -- is not new.
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Aeon+Psyche
The lure of ‘cool’ brain research is stifling psychotherapy
Aeon+Psyche
4 min read · 97 saves · 2020-03-04 · The lure of ‘cool’ brain research – and psychotropic drugs – are stifling psychotherapy. Has bioreductionism gone too far?
The New York Times
Generation Adderall
The New York Times
~18 min read · 91 saves · From 2017 · Like many of my friends, I spent years using prescription stimulants to get through school and start my career. Then I tried to get off them.
The New Yorker
The Challenge of Going Off Psychiatric Drugs
The New Yorker
20+ min read · 78 saves · From 2019 · Millions of Americans have taken antidepressants for many years. What happens when it’s time to stop?
Fast Company
The billion-dollar race to change how drugs are made
Fast Company
4 min read · 27 saves · 2019-09-20 · Alphabet’s AI lab DeepMind is proving that artificial intelligence can be game-changing for drug discovery. Could savvy upstarts upend Big Pharma?
Aeon+Psyche
If the internet is addictive, why don’t we regulate ...
Aeon+Psyche
~16 min read · 149 saves · From 2015 · Websites and apps are designed for compulsion, even addiction. Should the net be regulated like drugs or casinos?
The New York Times
Trump’s Embrace of Unproven Drugs to Treat Coronavirus Defies Science
The New York Times
6 min read · 33 saves · 2020-03-21 · Doctors and patients also worry that the president’s rosy outlook for the treatments will exacerbate shortages of old malaria drugs relied on by patients with lupus and other debilitating conditions.
London Review of Books
LRB · Misha Glenny and Callum Lang
London Review of Books
~11 min read · 21 saves · 2019-10-31 · In early February this year, what appeared to be a website glitch sent thousands of drugs-buyers into a panic. Liam (not his real name), a student at Manchester University, needed to buy some MDMA for…
WIRED UK
Would you take LSD to give you a boost at work? WIRED takes a trip inside the…
WIRED UK
20+ min read · 62 saves · From 2016 · Under pressure to perform, Silicon Valley champions are taking tiny hits of LSD before heading to work. Are they risking their health or optimising it?
FORTUNE
Psychedelic drugs may transform mental health care. And big business is ready to profit from the revolution.
FORTUNE
182 saves · 2020-02-18 · Silicon Valley legends. Billionaire financiers. Patent attorneys. They're all awakening to the massive potential of an industry preparing to emerge from darkness.
