Pharmacology

Introduction (coming soon)

Drugs 'R Us

Dave Boothroyd

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

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

Ethno-pharmacology

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

Juridico-pharmacology

Our Right to Drugs

An interview with Thomas Szasz

 

Global Commission on Drugs Report (2011)

Drug Policy – Lessons Learnt, and Options for the Future

Mike Trace

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

Cultural psycho-pharmacology

Timothy Leary, Cooper Union Addess, 1964