At a time when concerns about opioids and their effects are ever present, a fascinating new book out this month by a UB faculty member puts these and the myriad other psychoactive drugs in the human ...

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Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear, by Carl Hart (2021, Penguin Press, 290 pp., $28.00 HB) Dr. Carl Hart is a one-man drug and drug user destigmatization machine. In his new ...

Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction by Maia Szalavitz (2021, Hatchette Books, 372 pp., $30 HB) Last Sunday, I drove to the community center of a small town in ...

A book written by two San Francisco Chronicle reporters says Giants slugger Barry Bonds has used an array of performance-enhancing drugs for at least five seasons, beginning in 1998. Bonds has ...

Chauncey Taylor played a part in his life's destruction. His foundation wasn't the best, but he had a nurturing mother who tried to raise her son not to become a statistic. He also turned his life ...

“The book is an effort to launch a conversation, a kind of post-drug war conversation,” Pollan tells me in a telephone interview. “I start out with the drug war, and that’s why the first chapter is ...