Eating better only gets you part of the way. The rest comes from moving more, and the target to aim for is at least 300 minutes of moderately intense activity a week. That figure can sound daunting, but the best exercises for weight loss are less complicated than most people assume. Anyone starting out should...
Most people believe a drink only starts to work once they feel it. In fact, the process begins much sooner. The alcohol effects on the brain start before the glass is empty, and the changes are already under way while the conversation carries on as normal. Here is what the facts reveal, along with a...
Youth opioid treatment in the United States is losing young people at almost every step. A national study of 229,847 adolescents and young adults on Medicaid shows the scale of the problem. Only 3.1 per cent, about 1 in 32, stayed on medication for opioid use disorder (OUD) for 180 days or more. Dr Scott...
Everyone has a flat week. A disappointing result, a lost job or the death of someone close can leave anyone feeling low, and that is a natural response. But when the heaviness stays, the question changes. Depression symptoms that last two weeks or longer call for a conversation with a doctor, according to a guide...
Selma Blair’s former boyfriend says cannabis played a part in her mood swings and angry outbursts. The claims come from court documents reported by OK! in March 2022. They put a spotlight on faux medicinal cannabis and the shortcuts people reach for when they want to feel better fast. Ronald Carlson called the Legally Blonde...
Cannabis hospital admissions in Victoria were 49 per cent higher in 2022/2023 than a decade earlier. The study behind that figure examined every public and private hospital episode in the state. Published in the journal Addiction, the research by Myfanwy Graham and colleagues at Monash University counted 39,565 admissions between July 2013 and June 2023....
The Houston marijuana vote this November puts a direct question to residents. Should police treat possession of small amounts as little more than an afterthought? Proposition A, known as the Houston Freedom Act, would amend the city charter. It would make misdemeanour marijuana possession the lowest enforcement priority for the Houston Police Department (HPD). It...
Few questions in drug policy weigh as heavily as the one about marijuana and schizophrenia. At the US Drug Enforcement Administration hearing, a senior psychiatrist gave his answer under oath. It was careful, detailed and honest about what is still unknown. Dr Deepak Cyril D’Souza took the stand on Day 10 of the eleven day...
The Hudson cannabis market sounds like a small local story. A river city in New York State waits for its first legal dispensaries, and a few rival entrepreneurs line up to open them. Yet a year and a half of reporting by New York Times journalist Andrea Elliott turned it into something much bigger. She...
Millions of Americans now use psychedelics, and a new idea has surfaced to explain what happens next: secular mysticism. Notre Dame medical anthropologist Aidan Seale-Feldman uses the term for people who have profound spiritual encounters. Their culture offers few words for them. Her interviews feature in a Q&A with Big Think’s The Well, dated 30...