Review by: Chelsea Boyd

Almost as soon as China released the first COVID-19 statistics, scientists noticed some unexpected demographic characteristics among hospitalized cases. For example, early…

Review by: Chelsea Boyd

Officials have referred to youth e-cigarette use as an “epidemic” and have continued to sound alarms that vaping lures a new generation to a lifetime of nicotine use….

Reviewed by: Stacey McKenna

Review of: Toby Lea et al., “Microdosing psychedelics: Motivations, subjective effects and harm reduction,” International Journal of Drug Policy (2020). 

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A Review of: Rick Kosterman et al., “Adult social environments and the use of combustible and electronic cigarettes: Opportunities for reducing smoking in the 30s,” Nicotine and Tobacco Research…

Professor Barry Latzer asserts in his March 24 opinion essay, “Voodoo Criminology,” that Senator Sanders’s plan to dramatically reduce our nation’s use of incarceration is akin to…

Response to: Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing, “The EARN IT Act: Holding the Tech Industry Accountable in the Fight Against Online Child Sexual Exploitation,” 116th Congress (March 11, 2020)….

A review of: Sabeeh Baig and Daniel Giovenico, “Behavioral heterogeneity among cigarette and e-cigarette dual-users and associations with future tobacco use: Findings from the Population Assessment…

The United Kingdom embraces vaping as a promising smoking cessation tool. As a result, encouraging the use of vapor products to achieve or maintain abstinence from combustible cigarettes has yielded…

In 2017, 47,600 people died of opioid-related overdose in the United States. This constitutes more than two-thirds of the country’s drug overdose deaths. Much of the risk has been attributed to the…

Persistent pain is associated with a number of psychiatric diagnoses. For example, depression, anxiety and substance use disorders are common among people with persistent pain. Frustratingly, the…