Highly addictive drugs


Obama picks a drug peacemaker

With any luck, Obama and his new drug czar will at least try the experiment of making policy on the basis of evidence rather than hysteria, writes Charles Richardson.

Scientology’s vexed relationship with psychiatry

A case before the Bankstown Local Court, in which a 25-year-old woman is accused of stabbing her father and sister to death and seriously injuring her mother, has raised the issue of Scientology’s views on psychiatry.