Health Archive
Archives for June 2017
“You’ve got to be willing to accept that there’s a trade-off here.” —Craig Garthwaite
New data shows people are being diagnosed with opioid addiction nearly eight times faster than they’re getting the standard of care.
An analysis forecasts that things will get worse — maybe much worse — before they get better.
Another grim statistic in the opioid epidemic.
One simple trick for making bullshit seem real: repetition.
Vancouver gives heroin to people suffering from addiction — and it works.
It’s about boundaries.
In response to the opioid epidemic, the US Senate is considering new penalties for synthetic opioids.
2015 was the worst year for drug overdose deaths in US history. Then 2016 came along.
The psychology of what happens when we think our opponents are less than human is troubling.
Researchers using huge data sets to understand genetics and behavior worry their findings will be misinterpreted.
Why the placebo effect is weirder and potentially more useful than we imagined.
All it took was one paragraph.