Nearly three times as many Pennsylvania adults gamble online today than just a few years ago. And as online platforms make gambling easier and more convenient, some Pennsylvanians are gambling…
Category: Anthropology
GLP-1 drugs may fight addiction across every major substance, according to a study of 600,000 people
A patient of mine, a veteran who had tried to quit smoking for over a decade, told me that after he started a GLP-1 drug for his diabetes, he lost…
Formerly incarcerated Black men say they’re ‘doing OK’ while trying to cope with depression and PTSD
“People can assess me, interview me, incarcerate me, observe me, and they can think they know what I need,” said Shawn, a man in his early 50s who spent 15…
Stressed out by politics? You’re not imagining it, and research shows that social media is largely to blame
Does politics stress you out? Did the last election cause you to lose sleep, lose your temper or lose a friend? If so, you weren’t alone. For the better part…
Free 10-minute online programs aimed at overcoming depression led to real improvements – new research
A well-designed 10-minute online exercise can spark small reductions in depression. That’s the key finding of my team’s paper, published in Nature Human Behaviour. Many people believe that to start…
What decades of research reveal about involuntary substance use treatment – and why evidence points elsewhere
Since President Donald Trump issued a July 2025 executive order aimed at “ending crime and disorder on America’s streets,” national attention has increasingly focused on involuntary treatment as a response…
Kansas revoked transgender people’s IDs overnight – researchers anticipate cascading health and social consequences
The number of bills directly targeting and undermining the existing legal rights of transgender and nonbinary people in the U.S. has been escalating, with sharp increases since 2021 and with…
Drug company ads are easy to blame for misleading patients and raising costs, but research shows they do help patients get needed treatment
It’s a familiar experience for many Americans: You’re watching your favorite show and suddenly you’re ambushed by an ad for a drug whose name sounds like a Wi-Fi password, before…
There aren’t enough geriatricians – here’s how older adults can still get the right care
More than 70 million baby boomers – those born between 1946 and 1964 – are alive today. In 2026, the oldest of them are turning 80. With longer lives often…
Fewer new moms are dying in Colorado – naloxone might be one reason why
In Colorado, from 2016 to 2020, 33 women who were pregnant or had recently given birth died from accidental overdoses. That’s more than died from traditional obstetric complications like infection,…
