Pharmacology
edited by David Boothroyd
Introduction: Drugs Are Us
The popular trope which depicts the origin of life on earth as emerging from a ‘chemical soup’ continues to have an enduring hold over the imagination. Of course, whether this ‘soup’ was a prebiotic puddle on the surface of this third rock from the Sun, originally ‘canned’, superheated and pressurised in one of its internal faults, or a kind of extraterrestrial material reheated in some way after having reached the early Earth from elsewhere in universe, may not be known for sure. Nevertheless, advances in sciences such as paleogenomics and paleohistology have shown us that at least a part of the story of the origin of life can be traced in each and every cell of our living bodies. (more...)
Pure Pharmacology
- James Black
- Reflections on drug research
- H.P. Rang
- The receptor concept: pharmacology’s big idea
- Patrick Vallance, Trevor G Smart
- The future of pharmacology
- Joni L. Rutter
- Symbiotic Relationship of Pharmacogenetics and Drugs of Abuse
- Kathy Giacommini – How Drugs May Be Tailored to Your Genetic Makeup
Socio-pharmacology
- Geoffrey Hunt, Molly Moloney, and Kristin Evans
- Epidemiology Meets Cultural Studies: Studying and Understanding Youth Cultures, Clubs and Drugs
- Steve Sussman, Mary A Pentz, Donna Spruijt-Metz and Toby Miller
- Misuse of "study drugs:" prevalence, consequences, and implications for policy
- Carol J Boyd and Sean E McCabe ; Coming to terms with the nonmedical use of prescription medications
- Damon Barrett (ed.)
- Children of the Drug War
- Stanton Peele – A Better Approach to Drugs and Alcohol
Psycho-pharmacology
- David Healy
- Psychopharmacology and the Goverment of the Self
- Joanna Moncrieff and David Cohen
- Do Antidepressants Cure or Create Abnormal Brain States?
Neuro-pharmacology
- Sunniva Nyberg Karlsen, Olav Spigset, LARS Slørdal
- The Dark Side of Ecstasy: Neuropsychiatric Symptoms After Exposure to 3,4-Methylenedioxymetamphetamine
- John H. Halpern, Andrea R. Sherwood, James I. Hudson, Staci Gruber, David Kozin, Harrison G. Pope Jr
- Residual neurocognitive features of long-term ecstasy users with minimal exposure to other drugs
- John PA Ioannidis
- Effectiveness of antidepressants: an evidence myth constructed from a thousand randomized trials?
- John M Davis, William J Giakas, Jie Qu, Pavan Prasad and Stefan Leucht
- Should We Treat Depression with drugs or
psychological interventions? A Reply to Ioannidis - Barry Everitt
- The Neural Basis of Drug Addiction
- Martin Wiener, Matthew S. Matell and H B. Coslett
- Optimized Networks for Time Perception
Ethno-pharmacology
- The Spirit Molecule (Dir. Mitch Schultz, 2010. 10 parts)
- Michael Heinrich
- Ethnopharmacology in the 21st century – grand challenges
- Rainer W Bussmann and Douglas Sharon
- Naming a Phantom - the Quest to Find the Identity of the Ulluchu, an Unidentified Cerimonial Plant of the Moche Culture in Northern Peru
- Stephan A Padosch, Dirk W Lachenmeier and Lars U Kröner
- Absinthism: A Fictitious 19th. Centrury Syndrome with Present Impact
- Ronald K. Bullis
- The “Vine of the Soul” vs. The Controlled Substances Act: Implications of the Hoasca Case
Anthropo-pharmacology
- Tammy Saah
- The evolutionary origins and significance of drug addiction
- Richard Sullivan, Isabel Behncke and Arnie Purushotham
- Why Do We Love Medicines So Much?
- Ibogaine - Rite of Passage (Lun Arts Productions Documentary)
Eco-pharmacology
- Syed Ziaur Rahman, Rahat Ali Khan, Varun Gupta and Misbah Uddin
- Pharmacoenvironmentology – a component of pharmacovigilance
Juridico-pharmacology
- Thomas Szasz – Our Right to Drugs: An Interview with Thomas Szasz
- Lynn Zimmer
- The History of Cannabis Prohibition
- A Report by TRANSFORM Drug Policy Foundation
- After the War on Drugs: Options for Control
- Jonathan Birdwell, Jake Chapman, Nicola Singleton
- Taking Drugs Seriously: A DEMOS and UK Drug Policy Commission Report on Legal Highs
- Kathy Gyngell
- The UK’s Treatment War on Drugs: A Lesson in Unintended Consequences and Perverse Outcomes
Counter-cultural psycho-pharmacology
- Timothy Leary : Cooper Union Address, 1964
- David Pearce
- Utopian Pharmacology
Aesthetics and anaesthetics
- Mike Jay
- The Atmosphere of Heaven: the 1799 Nitrous Oxide Researches Reconsidered
- John Mann
- No Laughing Matter
Narco-cultural theory
- Dave Boothroyd
- Deposition: Drugs in Theory
- Peta Malins
- Machinic Assemblages: Deleuze, Guattari and an Ethico-Aesthetics of Drug Use
Placebo
- Franklin G. Miller, David Wendler, Leora C. Swartzman
- Deception in Research on the Placebo Effect
- Rinah T Yamamoto, Katherine H Karlsgodt, David Rott, Scott E Lukas and Igor Elman
- Effects of perceived cocaine availability on subjective and objective responses to the drug
- Understanding the Placebo Effect
- Roundtable discussion with Robert Ader, Rob DeRubeis, John Kelley, Richard Kradin, and Rosamond Rhodes :
Gonzo-pharmacology
- Joe Rogan talks about DMT
Heroes of Drugs Research
- PHIKAL (Part 2)
- Alexander Shulgin
- Alexander Flemming