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Anti-Apartheid Novelist and AIDS Activist Nadine Gordimer Dies at 90

Gordimer was one of the literary world’s most powerful voices against apartheid.  Photo via Nadine Gordimer, the South African writer who turned her nation’s many tragedies of, and final triumph over,...

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AIDS Progress Is a Casualty of the Downing of Flight MH17

The crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 Photo via The international AIDS community is mourning the deaths of reportedly as few as seven to as many as 100 activists, researchers, policy makers...

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Does the Anti-Smoking Vaccine Have a Future? Not Right Now

The four top anti-smoking vaccines have failed costly Phase III trials. Photo via Enough is enough, say the editors of the journal Addiction as far as further investment in experimental anti-smoking...

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Video: Can Virtual Reality Help You “Choose Not to Use”?

High technology susbtance use treatment Photo via Virtual reality technology is being used, apparently with some success, to treat people with mental illness and veterans with PTSD. Its potential...

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Werner Herzog Discusses His Aversion to Drugs

The formidable Herr Herzog Photo via German director Werner Herzog is not exactly the type of guy “you’d want to have a beer with,” as we Americans say. Herzog is famously forbidding, imperious,...

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Video: A Housewife in 1950s LSD Experiment: “I Wish I Could Talk in...

Sidney Cohen, MD, and his acid guinea pig Photo via “Everything is alive. This is reality. I wish you could see it. I wish I could talk in Technicolor,” a young woman tells psychiatrist Sidney Cohen in...

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Billionaires at Burning Man Harsh Many a Burner’s Buzz

Techno Burning Man in 2013 Photo via Burning Man, the annual drug-fueled gathering of artists, hippies, ravers, punks, all-around free spirits and wannabes in the northern Nevada desert, begins today...

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How Will History Judge Attorney General Eric Holder’s Legacy on Drugs?

Attorney General Eric Holder Photo via News of Attorney General Eric Holder’s resignation, effective as soon as a successor is confirmed by the Senate, broke today. During his six-year tenure, the...

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Aussies Win Payout from Pfizer for Drug Linked to Gambling, Sex Addiction

Pat Galea, who suffers from Restless Legs Syndrome, was part of the class action against drug company Pfizer. Photo via Big Pharma is always getting sued by people who suffer from side effects caused...

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Gay Shamelessness, Beyond the Crystal Meth Crisis

Thom Gunn (left) and Mike Kitay Photo via At around 6 am on Sunday, April 25, 2004, the doorbell rang at the house that the poet Thom Gunn shared with his lover and two friends in San Francisco. Gunn...

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