Drugs – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Fri, 08 May 2026 17:00:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Drugs – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 What Makes Co-Occurring Teen Treatment Different From Traditional Treatment? https://brewminate.com/what-makes-co-occurring-teen-treatment-different-from-traditional-treatment/ Fri, 08 May 2026 17:00:35 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=272915 Teenagers are not simply small adults. Their brains are still in development, their emotional regulation is still being

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]]> How IOP Supports Mental Health Alongside Addiction Treatment https://brewminate.com/how-iop-supports-mental-health-alongside-addiction-treatment/ Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:04:20 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=270796 Addiction recovery involves more than substance use cessation. Many individuals face concurrent mental health challenges. Addressing both conditions

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]]> Engineered Addiction: Big Tobacco and the Historic Architecture of Denial https://brewminate.com/engineered-addiction-big-tobacco-and-the-historic-architecture-of-denial/ Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:03:34 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=270211 The history of Big Tobacco demonstrates that denial was never merely rhetorical improvisation in the face of crisis.

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]]> Witches’ Herb: Henbane, Healing, and Hallucination in the Medieval Imagination https://brewminate.com/witches-herb-henbane-healing-and-hallucination-in-the-medieval-imagination/ Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:30:32 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=266545 Henbane’s history in medieval Europe reveals the complexity of a plant that existed at the intersection of medicine,

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]]> Trump’s New Drug War and the Politics of Selective Enforcement https://brewminate.com/trumps-new-drug-war-and-the-politics-of-selective-enforcement/ Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:30:01 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=266549 As military operations continue, the questions surrounding evidence, legality, and accountability are only likely to grow. By Matthew

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]]> Hidden Hemp Ban: How the Last-Minute Funding Bill Will Wreck a National Industry https://brewminate.com/hidden-hemp-ban-how-the-last-minute-funding-bill-will-wreck-a-national-industry/ Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:13:35 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=265945 The shutdown bill’s hidden hemp provision has triggered a reckoning not just for farmers and manufacturers, but for

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]]> America’s New Drug War under Trump Will Fail as Much as the Last One https://brewminate.com/americas-new-drug-war-under-trump-will-fail-as-much-as-the-last-one/ Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:12:37 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=265955 The United States has spent decades confronting drug trafficking with force, yet the record across Latin America shows

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]]> Locusta and the Architecture of Poison: Power and Pardon in the Ancient Roman Court https://brewminate.com/locusta-and-the-architecture-of-poison-power-and-pardon-in-the-ancient-roman-court/ Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:26:25 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=265881 Locusta’s legacy lies not in the sensational details of her craft but in what her life reveals about

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]]> Albert Hofmann and the Origins of LSD in 1938 https://brewminate.com/albert-hofmann-and-the-origins-of-lsd-in-1938/ Sun, 07 Sep 2025 19:06:46 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=245919 He accidentally underwent the first acid trip in human history. By Eli WizevichHistory CorrespondentSmithsonian Magazine When chemist Albert Hofmann moved

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