Showing posts with label drugs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drugs. Show all posts
Friday, September 25, 2026

Heroin, hitmen and black markets on Behavioral Grooves

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The hosts of the podcast  Behavioral Grooves open by chatting about heroin and hitmen, followed by a discussion among the three of us:     ...
Monday, August 17, 2026

Bra doping at the women’s Tour de France

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 I follow the Tour de France, partly out of an interest in performance enhancing drugs.  But from time to time other strategic kinds of dopi...
Friday, August 14, 2026

True Crime: Illegal markets have great variety (PNAS)

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  The forthcoming issue of PNAS (August 18, 2026 | vol. 123 | no. 33 ) has a big set of papers on illegal markets, with the goal of searchin...
Sunday, July 12, 2026

The enemy in the war on drugs is no longer agriculture, but chemistry

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  One drug future may be happening first in Estonia, hard on the Russian border. The NYT has the story : Estonia Won the War on Fentanyl. Wh...
Monday, March 23, 2026

The innovative supply chain of illegal drugs--even in prisons

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 Strategy sets are big, so we’re not going to be able to end illegal drug use by spraying defoliants on fields of poppies, or arresting deal...
Thursday, February 19, 2026

How to regulate legal marijuana?

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 The New York Times editorial board thinks about the current environment for (now legal) marijuana, and calls for more careful regulation, a...
Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Magic mushrooms have a role in hospice care

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 Pain experienced while dying may be partly spiritual.  National Geographic has the story:  These drugs could be a game changer for end-of-l...
Monday, August 4, 2025

Brain drugs, a review (performance enhancement, side effects, and addiction)

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 From the Free Press,  tasting notes on a variety of performance enhancing drugs for concentration, finally converging on what sounds like n...
Friday, July 25, 2025

Tour de France competitions: conditioning, bikes, and drugs?

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 Agence France Presse (AFP) reports on the bike race, and speculates on the historical competition between drug takers and drug testers. Pog...