Psychoactive Drugs & Behavior
Dr. M. Plonsky
Last update 1/05.
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Ergotropics & Nootropics
Sedatives
Inhalants
Alcohol
Analgesics
Stimulants
Tobacco
OTC Drugs
Psychiatric Drugs
Hallucinogens
Marijuana
Laws
Placebos
- Placebo effect is shown to be twice as powerful as expected
- Purported Aphrodisiac Has Deadly Side Effects: CDC
- Quest For Sexual Stimulants Goes On
Ergogenic & Nootropic Drugs
Sedatives
Inhalants
Alcohol
- Alcoholism treatment: Drug to fight drug addiction appears to prevent relapse
- Alcohol: friend or foe?
- Alcohol poisoning claims many
- Antigo teen drinks himself to death
- Coroner: Alcohol overdose led to Misoni's death
- Data: Drinking and driving don't mix
- Deaths alarm Colleges
- Doctor says food may have intoxicated woman
- DPI survey finds parents soft on underage drinking
- Drinking holds back poor countries: study
- Drinking, walking, prove to be deadly
- Drug appears to reduce alcoholics' craving for a drink
- Drunkenness at college makes sober students suffer: Survey
- Heart attack risk cut by moderate drinking
- Intoxication aided drowning
- The Key Word is Moderation
- Local man, 23, dies of alcohol overdose
- Man convicted of 17th drunken driving offense
- MIT death refocuses attention on student drinking
- Report sharp drop in heavy drinking
- State ranked first in binge drinking
- State students say they use alcohol
- State (WI) tops US for pregnant drinkers
- Study: Pregnancy doesn't slow drinking
- UW students top drinking average
- WI tops nation in binge drinking: report
- Younger college students drink more, survey finds
Analgesics
- A new type of pain reliever introduced
- Concerns voiced over OxyContin drug
- Heavy use of Tylenol tied to kidney ills
- More aggression against pain urged
Stimulants
- Caffeine has no adverse health effects: scientists
- Caffeine overdose kills student
- Caffeine withdrawal hazardous
- City house raided, crack cocaine seized
- Conn. approves Ritalin law
- FDA wants limits on ephedrine diet supplements
- Government orders indepth study of the herb ephedra
- NY bans ephedra supplements
- Study: Attention deficit disorder abused
Tobacco
- Cigarette smokers have another hazard to face
- Cigarette use increases among state residents
- Effects of smoking cost state $1 billion
- Percentage of smokers levels
- Report smoking is leading cause of premature death in WI
- Secondhand smoke: Report could trigger avalanche of rules
- Smoking may raise broken-bone risk
- Smoking takes its toll in county, state
- Snuffing out the urge to light up: Nicotine patch helps smokers kick the habit
- Survey: Cigarette use starts young
- Tobacco blamed for 7,700 deaths
- Tobacco, Congress and hypocrisy
- 'Uniquely perilous,' and protected
OTC Drugs
- Firms eye nonprescription drugs
- Keeping your wits in the jungle of cold remedies
- Scientists: Herbal Research Needed
Psychiatric Drugs
- Depression treatment numbers soar
- Pharmaceutical companies offer coupons
- Prozac's Good, Not Wonder Drug
- Psychoactive drug sales jump
- The Pied Piper of Prozac
Hallucinogens
Marijuana
Law
- Drug war a costly failure
- Heavy TV exposure
- Mandated sentences come under attack
- Pot commercialization increases use
- Nearly 2,000 deaths blamed on alcohol
- Psst...drinking law is mini-prohibition
- Record numbers entering U.S. prisons
- Repeal of today's prohibition is past due
- War on drugs costs nearly $24 billion
Comments? mplonsky@uwsp.edu.