Menthol cigarettes more addicting? and more part-time smokers
Recent studies look at menthol cigarettes — whether they are more addicting and more hazardous; also the rise in numbers of part-time smokers.
Holidays – Guilt, Gambling & Java
Those with addiction issues can find the Holiday Season bringing up old wounds – we look at issues of guilt. Also news about treatment for gambling addiction, and a chat about the addictive qualities of caffeine.
Holidays & Over-eating Issues
Starting with Thanksgiving, the holidays bring parties and feasts of food, which can be an issue especially for people with addictions for food – compulsive over-eating. Dr Inaba shares his thoughts.
UA Testing Reliability
Dr. Inaba discusses the chemistry involved in urine testing for drugs, and the needs for careful evaluation of the results, which can be both false-positive, as well as false-negative.
Many kinds of addictions – beyond comparing legal and illegal drugs
Humankind has a long history of looking for ways of changing our feelings, our consciousness, our relationship to our environment, whether through drugs or dancing or twittering. But trying to compare them, or change entrenched category schemes, is anything but easy.
Snoose, flavors and freebase nicotine
Tobacco in the news, including snoose, new FDA control of tobacco and the banning of flavored cigarettes, and ways that the modern cigarettes increases impact by the free-basing of nicotine.