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

A Better Approach to Drugs and Alcohol

Stanton Peele

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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

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

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

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

 

Drugs in 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

Understanding the Placebo Effect

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