Buzz Aldrin – Man on a Mission

by Steven Diogo  Buzz Aldrin the Icon and Buzz Aldrin the Man are two very different creatures. The icon laughs at death, rides wild rockets like bucking broncos and contem- plates the mysteries of life in the wondrous cosmos outside his Apollo window.  The man focuses on mission, procedure and detail. He is a military man and engineer.…

An Interview with Bill Moyers

How Can an Addict and Addict’s Family Heal?  Interview with William Moyers, author of Now What? An Insider’s Guide to Addiction and Recovery. William C. Moyers, the eldest son of television journalist Bill Moyers and his wife, Judith, is known for his 2006 bestseller, Broken, which describes his near-fatal addiction to alcohol and other drugs. In…

Obama’s POT Problem

Now that states have started legalizing recreational marijuana, will the president continue the government’s war on weed? By TIM DICKINSONWhen voters in Colorado and Washington state legalized recreational marijuana in November, they thought they were declaring a cease-fire in the War on Drugs. Thanks to ballot initiatives that passed by wide margins on Election Day,…

Sigmund Freud’s Cocaine Problem

Dr. Howard MarkelEditor’s note: Nearly 130 years ago, cocaine was the world’s newest wonder drug – touted as a cure for everything from morphine addiction to tuberculosis. And its biggest supporter was Sigmund Freud.  Whenever Big Pharma unfurls its latest “blockbuster” drug, I am carried back to the era when the biggest wonder drug on the…