Substance Abuse in Australia: Facts and Stats

Substance Abuse in Australia: Facts and Stats – This is a video I made to provide some additional information about drugs to the readers of my article.

Challenging the drug war lies

Filed under: drug addiction statistics

As a researcher, Hart marshals the studies, including his own, and statistics to show that the majority of people who use drugs do not become addicted, not even to the so-called "hard" drugs like cocaine, heroin or methamphetamine. He shows through …
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Scientists reduce behaviors associated with problem gambling in rats

Filed under: drug addiction statistics

The study, which featured the first successful modeling of slot machine-style gambling with rats in North America, is the first to show that problem gambling behaviours can be treated with drugs that block dopamine D4 receptors. The findings have been …
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