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The Legend of the Wartime Placebo

11 Feb 2022

Facts rarely get in the way of a good story. There is a foundational myth in placebo research that has been repeated over and over again, sometimes with inexplicable flourishes, often with the...

Why are people addicted to heroin called 鈥渏unkies?鈥

11 Sep 2021

By the first decade of the twentieth century heroin addiction had become a huge problem in major American cities such as New York. The drug was not cheap and some people experiencing addiction...

A Man's Last Days

24 Oct 2018

To be fair, he did look very uncomfortable all the time, but we didn鈥檛 know how to make him feel better; until one day, we didn鈥檛 have to worry any more. Let鈥檚 rewind the clock.

Would Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion have Passed an Emerald City Entrance Drug Test?

20 Mar 2017

Not if it tested for morphine, as long as we let L. Frank Baum get away with a little poetic license. In the 1939 movie classic The Wizard of Oz, the Wicked Witch of the West conjures up a poppy...

What are endorphins?

20 Mar 2017

Endorphins, molecules produced by the pituitary and hypothalamus glands to produce pain relief and a sense of well-being. The name derives from 鈥渆ndogenous morphine,鈥 meaning internally produced...

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