Showing posts with label drugs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drugs. Show all posts
Thursday, 30 May 2019

The dark side of rural decline - West Virginia's drug epidemic

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West Virginia - mountain mama's drug den I'm often cynical about moral panics around drugs and drug use as they tend to exagge...
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Sunday, 6 August 2017

Marita Koch and Justin Gaitlin - how athletics fails its fans

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Like a lot of sports fans I've taken an interest in the ongoing debate across many sports about the use of performance enhancing drugs. ...
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Thursday, 4 June 2015

Does the Psychoactive Substances Bill give drug makers the wrong incentive?

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**** Today's news included a report on how much cocaine was identified in London's sewers: Experts said the UK capital was slight...
Monday, 6 April 2015

Nine out of ten teachers don't think energy drinks contribute to poor pupil performance

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**** I've never drunk a whole one of those energy drinks. I had a sip of a Red Bull once and can safely say 'never again' - it...
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Friday, 20 February 2015

Friday Fungus: Drug-crazed dinosaurs, the Black Sorcerer and other tales of ergotism

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It seems that back in the olden times (about six-thousand years ago some would say ) those dinosaurs - the herbivorous ones - weren't ...
Friday, 8 November 2013

Bitcoin and the end of big government...

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**** There's a great article about Bitcoin over at ASI where Michael Taylor concludes : The exponential rise of Bitcoin will no dou...
Thursday, 22 March 2012

"Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk." - A budget for smugglers

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Five and twenty ponies, Trotting through the dark - Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk. Them that asks no questions isn...
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Friday, 27 January 2012

Friday Fungus: More about mushrooms and depression

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A while ago I reported on the ongoing research showing that Psilocybe mushrooms have a beneficial impact on depressive conditions: ...the ...
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Thursday, 12 January 2012

This is what they push to help you stop smoking...

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**** ...and it's pretty scary : Varenicline, meanwhile, already carries warnings, as a result of Health Canada advisories issued i...
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Friday, 25 November 2011

That's what comes of fixing prices - shortages

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**** And it works for life-saving drugs too : Health minister Simon Burns blamed dwindling stocks of potentially life-saving asthma, ca...
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Friday, 30 September 2011

Friday Fungus: which came first, the hippy or the mushroom?

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These aren't magic mushrooms I’ve noted before the emerging research into the positive effects of magic mushrooms and today I’m p...
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Friday, 29 July 2011

Ah yes, that epidemic of teenage drinking?

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**** Or maybe not : There have been falls in the numbers of teenagers drinking, smoking and taking drugs in England, a survey suggests. ...
Thursday, 28 July 2011

So it might be something other than the drink?

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**** Data from the Health Protection Agency suggests around 4,200 people could need a transplant owing to serious damage to their liver, w...
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Saturday, 23 July 2011

Ars longa, vita brevis...(a thought about Amy Winehouse)

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Much will be said about the death of Amy Winehouse. I think of her friends, her family and what we will miss of her genius – of her wonde...
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Wednesday, 13 July 2011

New Puritans aren't all saints...

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**** Prompted by a comment on an earlier post : Please note that professor Nutt has a patent for an alcohol replacement drink which is b...
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