Using Machine Learning to Fight Substance Abuse
Machine learning may be more than the latest way to fight substance abuse – it may also be its greatest. No foolin.’
AUD: Is it Really in the Genes?
Properly calculating polygenic risk scores (PRS) may make it possible to prevent high risk individuals from developing AUD. Really.
Narcan Parties Are No Longer a Dangerous Urban Myth
By now you’ve heard of Narcan Parties. You probably also know they’re an Urban Myth. But did you know that myth can be incredibly dangerous? It’s true.
Will Long Covid Create a New Rash of Addicts?
Uh-oh. Just when you thought we were getting a handle on both the Covid Pandemic and the Opioid Epidemic (or, if you prefer, the Twindemic), along comes another one-two punch merging both. It springs from treating Long Covid sufferers with opioids — and it’s about to wreak a new havoc.
The Rat Park Addiction Experiment
The Rat Park Addiction Experiment proved there’s both an existential and environmental component to addiction. Or didn’t it? Four decades later scientists are still disagreeing about the study’s findings. So we’re here to ask, once and for all: Could Rat Park really be a thing? The Rat Park Addiction Experiment Back in the late ’70s, Canadian psychologist Bruce Alexander and…
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