1. Cues may not actually trigger drug seeking as much as we assume:

'...robust increases in craving and exhibit modest changes in autonomic responses, such as increases in heart rate and skin conductance and decreases in skin temperature, when exposed to drug-related versus neutral stimuli....However, when drug-use measures are used in cue reactivity studies the typical finding is a modest increase in drug-seeking or drug-use behavior'

-WP: Cue reactivity

1. people become scientists because they're lured by the charm of discovery and excitement, but in clinical research, that's not what you get. No, doctors get that because they see individual cases over time, many.

‘If study designs are ranked by their potential for new discoveries, than anecdotal evidence would be at the top of the list, followed by observational studies, followed by RCTs

-WP: RCT’s

1. Interesting discussion on [responses to statements like: '"wow it is so inspirational to see how you got through med school with three kids, I can't imagine"'
2. Is there a free app for this kinda automatic language translator device
3. >‘you're not getting rejected, you're just testing the chemistry’

Unexpected reframe from ‘rsdtyler