Pharmacology

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edited by David Boothroyd

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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