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Trinny Woodall: I became addicted to cocaine because I had a total lack of confidence. I was very insecure and unappealing. I finally stopped because I didn’t recognise myself. I was so detached from life; I had no feelings. That is a scary thing.
The Times 11 June 2022
I don’t do Botox to look young. I do it not to look tired. If I look in the mirror and feel awake and alert, I will be awake and alert. If I look exhausted, I feel it. I want to feel full of energy – that’s all it is.
Scientists are once again tuning in to use of psychedelics | The Times
archived 13 May 2022 16:58:03 UTC
Even when broken down into the actions of individual neurons, much remains to be understood. Try understanding the behaviour of 86 billion of those neurons, and the abilities of the world’s collective neuroscientists are confounded. We do not know how these neurons come together to achieve the brain’s defining function: consciousness. But it’s worse than that: we struggle to even define what consciousness is.
addiction
illustration by Julianna Brion to accompany a NYT article about addiction 1-5-22
Do Antidepressants Really Work?
While the drugs are widely used, a new study sheds light on how little is known about their long-term benefits.
73 percent of Americans prescribed antidepressants don’t even have a diagnosis of depression
wow
pills are often easier and cheaper: It can be hard for people to access therapy because there aren’t enough providers, and mental health treatments often aren’t fully covered by insurance.
one out of eight Americans over 18
Hij denkt de Opiumwet te slim af te zijn: ‘Dit verandert hoe dan ook de hele branche’
Via een maas in de wet is sinds kort een vorm van wietolie te koop die normaliter alleen op recept bij de apotheek verkrijgbaar is. De man erachter...
Thirty-five years after the publication of her iconic photobook, “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency”, Nan Goldin reflects on a record of life that nobody could revise.
"I went from being young to being old, I didn’t experience the transition. In your sixties, it’s a much different awareness of death, of seeing how limited your time is and how quickly it goes..."
Harvard takes a new trip into the world of psychedelic drugs
When the Harvard psychiatrist Jerry Rosenbaum decided to found an institute to study psychedelic drugs he telephoned some of the sharpest minds in neurology,
Sublocade vs Suboxone
what's the story with the different drugs used for opiod addiction and wtf is seratonin syndrome?
My Daily Pills
On suffering, and not.
january
not february