Big Think Interview With Nora Volkow

Big Think Interview With Nora Volkow – A conversation with the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Side Effects | A Journal Sentinel Watchdog Update FDA to weigh tighter rules …

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Wilson Compton, a physician and division director at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said there is not good data showing that hydrocodone products are less addictive than oxycodone products. Compton said the institute has not taken a stance on …
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Does Chronic Weed Smoking Cause IQ Drop? Maybe Not

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Her study was paid for by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, whose overt political agenda is to fund anti-marijuana studies. Rogeberg writes on his blog that the data set is amazing, while Meier's work was flawed. “The data used for this study was …
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Pavlov's Rats? Rodents Trained to Link Rewards to Visual Cues

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This work was supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH084911), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (F31DA026687), the National Eye Institute (R01EYO12309), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development …
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