Moments In Flow

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  • Not All Molecules Are Teachers: Why Amphetamines, Cocaine, and Opiates Are Not Psychedelics

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    The most dangerous lie in the drug discourse is the word “drug.” It is a category that lumps together molecules that do not belong in the same sentence. Psilocybin and fentanyl are both “drugs.” LSD and methamphetamine are both “drugs.” This linguistic collapse is not an accident. It is a regulatory convenience, a legacy of…

  • The Hijacked Loop

    How Substance Use Reprograms the Brain’s Reward System One Pathway, Many Drugs Every addictive substance converges on the same pathway. It runs from the ventral tegmental area to the nucleus accumbens. It’s the brain’s reinforcement engine. It stamps cues and actions with motivational value. It says: that thing matters, go get it. Dopamine is not…

  • Finland: The 1970’s is back

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    In the early 1970s, Finland recorded the highest coronary heart disease mortality in the world. The excess was concentrated in working-age men, particularly in the eastern province of North Karelia, where mortality among men in their forties reached levels that would now be associated with men two decades older. The North Karelia Project, launched in…

  • The Bottle at the Door: Finland’s New Alcohol Law and the Delivery of Dependency

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    — or, how convenience became a public health experiment, and who gets left holding the bottle Let’s begin with an image. It is a Saturday evening in late June 2026. The Juhannus bonfires have burned down. The herring has been eaten. The holiday buzz is fading—but not quite gone. The phone rings. It is not…