Pharmacology

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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



James Black
Reflections on drug research

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

Patrick Vallance, Trevor G Smart
The future of pharmacology

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

Kathy Giacommini
How Drugs May Be Tailored to Your Genetic Makeup



Socio-pharmacology



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

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

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

Damon Barrett (ed.)
Children of the Drug War

Stanton Peele
A Better Approach to Drugs and Alcohol



Psycho-pharmacology



David Healy
Psychopharmacology and the Goverment of the Self

Joanna Moncrieff and David Cohen
Do Antidepressants Cure or Create Abnormal Brain States?


Neuro-pharmacology



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

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

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


John M Davis, William J Giakas, Jie Qu, Pavan Prasad and Stefan Leucht
Should We Treat Depression with drugs or
psychological interventions? A Reply to Ioannidis


Barry Everitt
The Neural Basis of Drug Addiction

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

Ethno-pharmacology



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



Michael Heinrich
Ethnopharmacology in the 21st century – grand challenges

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

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

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

Anthropo-pharmacology

Tammy Saah
The evolutionary origins and significance of drug addiction

Richard Sullivan, Isabel Behncke and Arnie Purushotham
Why Do We Love Medicines So Much?

Ibogaine - Rite of Passage (Lun Arts Productions Documentary)



Eco-pharmacology



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

Juridico-pharmacology



Thomas Szasz
Our Right to Drugs: An Interview with Thomas Szasz

 

Lynn Zimmer
The History of Cannabis Prohibition

A Report by TRANSFORM Drug Policy Foundation
After the War on Drugs: Options for Control Jonathan Birdwell, Jake Chapman, Nicola Singleton
Taking Drugs Seriously: A DEMOS and UK Drug Policy Commission Report on Legal Highs

Global Commission on Drugs Report (2011) Mike Trace

Drug Policy – Lessons Learnt, and Options for the Future

European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction - Portugal's Drugs Policy Kathy Gyngell
The UK’s Treatment War on Drugs: A Lesson in Unintended Consequences and Perverse Outcomes

Counter-cultural psycho-pharmacology



Timothy Leary
Cooper Union Addess, 1964



David Pearce
Utopian Pharmacology

Aesthetics and anaesthetics



Mike Jay
The Atmosphere of Heaven: the 1799 Nitrous Oxide Researches Reconsidered

John Mann
No Laughing Matter

Narco-cultural theory



Dave Boothroyd
Deposition: Drugs in Theory

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

Placebo



Franklin G. Miller, David Wendler, Leora C. Swartzman
Deception in Research on the Placebo Effect

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

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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