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== [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Pharmacology/Introduction '''Introduction: Drugs Are Us and Drugs Are Ours''']<br>  ==
== [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Pharmacology/Introduction '''Introduction: Drugs Are Us''']<br>  ==
Dave Boothroyd
The popular trope which depicts the origin of life on earth as emerging from a ‘chemical soup’ continues to have an enduring hold over the imagination. Of course, whether this ‘soup’ was a prebiotic puddle on the surface of this third rock from the Sun, originally ‘canned’, superheated and pressurised in one of its internal faults, or a kind of extraterrestrial material reheated in some way after having reached the early Earth from elsewhere in universe, may not be known for sure. Nevertheless, advances in sciences such as paleogenomics and paleohistology have shown us that at least a part of the story of the origin of life can be traced in each and every cell of our living bodies. [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Pharmacology/Introduction (more...)]
 
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Introduction: Drugs Are Us

The popular trope which depicts the origin of life on earth as emerging from a ‘chemical soup’ continues to have an enduring hold over the imagination. Of course, whether this ‘soup’ was a prebiotic puddle on the surface of this third rock from the Sun, originally ‘canned’, superheated and pressurised in one of its internal faults, or a kind of extraterrestrial material reheated in some way after having reached the early Earth from elsewhere in universe, may not be known for sure. Nevertheless, advances in sciences such as paleogenomics and paleohistology have shown us that at least a part of the story of the origin of life can be traced in each and every cell of our living bodies. (more...)

Pure pharmacology

Reflections on drug research
James Black

The receptor concept: pharmacology’s big idea
H.P. Rang

The future of pharmacology
Patrick Vallance, Trevor G Smart

Symbiotic Relationship of Pharmacogenetics and Drugs of Abuse
Joni L. Rutter

How Drugs May Be Tailored to Your Genetic Makeup

Kathy Giacommini

Socio-pharmacology

Epidemiology Meets Cultural Studies: Studying and Understanding Youth Cultures, Clubs and Drugs
Geoffrey Hunt, Molly Moloney, and Kristin Evans

Misuse of "study drugs:" prevalence, consequences, and implications for policy
Steve Sussman, Mary A Pentz, Donna Spruijt-Metz and Toby Miller

Coming to terms with the nonmedical use of prescription medications
Carol J Boyd and Sean E McCabe

Children of the Drug War

Damon Barrett (ed)


A Better Approach to Drugs and Alcohol

Stanton Peele &nbsp


Psycho-pharmacology

Psychopharmacology and the Goverment of the Self

David Healy

Do Antidepressants Cure or Create Abnormal Brain States?

Joanna Moncrieff and David Cohen


Neuro-pharmacology

The Dark Side of Ecstasy: Neuropsychiatric  Symptoms After Exposure to 3,4-Methylenedioxymetamphetamine
Sunniva Nyberg Karlsen, Olav Spigset, LARS Slørdal

Residual neurocognitive features of long-term ecstasy users with minimal exposure to other drugs
John H. Halpern, Andrea R. Sherwood, James I. Hudson, Staci Gruber, David Kozin, Harrison G. Pope Jr


Effectiveness of antidepressants: an evidence myth constructed
from a thousand randomized trials
?
John PA Ioannidis

Should We Treat Depression with drugs or
psychological interventions? A Reply to Ioannidis

John M Davis, William J Giakas, Jie Qu, Pavan Prasad and Stefan Leucht

The Neural Basis of Drug Addiction

Barry Everitt

Optimized Networks for Time Perception
Martin Wiener, Matthew S. Matell and H B. Coslett


Ethno-pharmacology

The Spirit Molecule (Dir. Mitch Schultz, 2010. 10 parts)


Ethnopharmacology in the 21st century – grand challenges
Michael Heinrich

Naming a Phantom - the Quest to Find the Identity of the Ulluchu, an Unidentified Cerimonial Plant of the Moche Culture in Northern Peru
Rainer W Bussmann and Douglas Sharon

Absinthism: A Fictitious 19th. Centrury Syndrome with Present Impact
Stephan A Padosch, Dirk W Lachenmeier and Lars U Kröner

The “Vine of the Soul” vs. The Controlled Substances Act: Implications of the Hoasca Case
Ronald K. Bullis


Anthropo-pharmacology

The evolutionary origins and significance of drug addiction
Tammy Saah

Why Do We Love Medicines So Much?

Richard Sullivan, Isabel Behncke and Arnie Purushotham


Ibogaine - Rite of Passage (Lun Arts Productions Documentary)

 


Eco-pharmacology

Pharmacoenvironmentology – a component of pharmacovigilance
Syed Ziaur Rahman, Rahat Ali Khan, Varun Gupta and Misbah Uddin

Juridico-pharmacology

Our Right to Drugs

An interview with Thomas Szasz

Thomas Szasz  


The History of Cannabis Prohibition
Lynn Zimmer


After the War on Drugs: Options for Control

A Report by TRANSFORM Drug Policy Foundation


Taking Drugs Seriously: A DEMOS and UK Drug Policy Commission Report on Legal Highs
Jonathan Birdwell, Jake Chapman, Nicola Singleton

Global Commission on Drugs Report (2011)


Drug Policy – Lessons Learnt, and Options for the Future

Mike Trace

European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction - Portugal's Drugs Policy

The UK’s Treatment War on Drugs: A Lesson in Unintended Consequences and Perverse Outcomes
Kathy Gyngell


Counter-cultural psycho-pharmacology

Timothy Leary, Cooper Union Addess, 1964

Timothy Leary  


Utopian Pharmacology

David Pearce

Aesthetics and anaesthetics

The Atmosphere of Heaven: the 1799 Nitrous Oxide Researches Reconsidered

Mike Jay


No Laughing Matter

John Mann

Narco-cultural theory

Deposition: Drugs in Theory

Dave Boothroyd

Machinic Assemblages: Deleuze, Guattari and an Ethico-Aesthetics of Drug Use
Peta Malins


Placebo

Deception in Research on the Placebo Effect

Franklin G. Miller, David Wendler, Leora C. Swartzman

Effects of perceived cocaine availability on subjective and objective responses to the drug
Rinah T Yamamoto, Katherine H Karlsgodt, David Rott, Scott E Lukas and Igor Elman


Understanding the Placebo Effect

Roundtable discussion with Robert Ader, Rob DeRubeis, John Kelley, Richard Kradin, and Rosamond Rhodes

 


Gonzo-pharmacology

Joe Rogan talks about DMT


Heroes of Drugs Research

PHIKAL (Part 2)

Alexander Shulgin

Alexander Flemming

 

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