drugs

Heroin is making a big comeback in the U.S. It seems to be hitting the suburbs pretty hard this time, especially among youth. While marijuana and alcohol use are seen by many as a normal "rite of passage" among teenagers, heroin use generally isn't. Many suburban parents see heroin as mostly an...

I'm taking Meclizine for what might be an inner ear infection. It's messing with my sleep and I'm debating taking a sleeping pill. But I'm wary of adding a CNS depressant on top of another one. But it's been ten hours since I took the last pill and I'm on a minimum dose (25mg) so it doesn't...

Came across doing some research into private security companies. Drugs, would appear to be the obvious answer. http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_pri_per_cap-crime-prisoners-per-capita#source Another source from Kings College (inc UK figures)...

True Life Horrors: The Russian Drug Krokodil (Linked site contains graphic images) This is the perfect example of prohibitionists losing even when they win. This drug appeared on the market in part because heroin interdiction efforts in Russia have actually succeeded and raised the price of...

Another Big Pharma Conspiracy rant, I'm afraid. The reason I've posted it here and not in the Conspiracy forum is becuase I'm interested in one specific point: I know about antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis bacilli; but I just don't believe they've really stopped trying to produce new...

Melbourne's inner city council (and the only place in Australia with a socialist representative) the City of Yarra, has voted to open a safe injecting room in one of the most drug-ridden suburbs, Richmond. The conservative State government has vowed not to let it happen...

Disease or not, we can all agree that alcoholism is a serious problem. The idea that alcoholism is a disease was largely popularized by Alcoholics Anonymous, to my understanding. Many doctors and alcohol/drug addiction specialists agree that alcoholism is a disease. However, not everyone agrees...

Ok we all dream. I read once where a man was giving a lecture on Anthony Burgess when he had a stroke and he dreamed he had gone back to Vietnam, he dreamed there was a place where people walked into a room white and came out black and cows that gave blue milk. I once had a lithatripsy and I...

Are there any drugs that have the same effect on the brain as exercise? Specifically any drugs that might have the same effect on mood, and memory? ETA: Yes - I'm asking if I can get the psychotropic and neurological benefits of exercise without doing any exercise.

Sounds pretty crazy but then I guess the 'war on drugs' is pretty crazy so you then get the inevitable side effect of people overdosing on release from jail or having to give them drugs to avoid overdosing. Article I guess in the context of what the alternative is I'm in favour of it.

Has anyone else noticed the recent escalation of media hysteria regarding mephadrone. What started as kids snorting plant food and calling it Meow Meow now seems to have escalated into a full on Reefer Madness style panic. After about two weeks of non stop coverage I can't help feeling that...

http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=12047295 So in a nutshell... another student offers the girl a prescription drug. She holds a pill in her hand, then gives it back and says no. That equals "drug possession."

In drug crime. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/23/2827460.htm?section=justin Twice that of Australia. Seriously, is this a credible study? Surely statistics like this are not properly collected (or collected at all) in many nations.

What is it about the denial of mental illness/mental disorders/neurological disorders that seems to be so appealing to some people? Is there a different appeal to denying each group? (For instance, the first group might contain schizophrenia, and ADHD would be in the second group kind of shading...

We've all seen them. Talking to themselves and acting irrationally. Alcohol can do it and so can drugs. However did you know that some medicines used to treat these disorders actually make the patient more irrational? Phenthiiazides such as stellazine and thorazine actually to irrational...

Mexico will almost surely join the list of countries that have decriminalized the possession and use of small quantities of drugs for personal use. The bill, which will quite likely be signed into law by President Calderón, has already been approved by the Senate and the House of...

So the second day of an increasingly massive police siege is unfolding today in the small city of Napier in the Hawkes Bay region of New Zealand. Go to any NZ news source and you're bound to find dozens of articles on it. The New Zealand Herald Television New Zealand The Dominion Post Well...

I don't take cocaine. There are several reasons for this: firstly I find the "cocaine culture" boring and wasteful and so on. Secondly, I don't really spend time with cokey people, as they tend not to be very much fun. Thirdly, I can't afford it anyway, and even if I could, there'd be better...

Are unnatural drugs (most notably anti-depressants) over prescribed today (and since the 70s), especially in the good ol' US of A? Do people often overlook the fact that hiking, running, swimming reasonably offer a cleaner way to healthier living, as opposed to drugs such as MAOIs and SSRIs...

Daniel Hopsicker, of madcowprod.com, who actually does original research of the gumshoe/investigative reporting type into 911, spoke recently at the New England Truth 9/11 Truth Symposium http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-513678522664580570&hl=en...

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080411/D8VVUAHG0.html This isn't too far off from the CT that the "Jews" in the record business want to use blacks to get money, so I'm sure if pressed, she'd give an earful of anti-semitism in regards to her theory on who's behind this "fake" gangsta rap...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,336286,00.html Study Finds Traces of Drugs in Drinking Water in 24 Major U.S. Regions Monday, March 10, 2008 A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water...

NPR Story This is interesting especialy how it relates to the arugement that most overdoses are accidental do to uneven quality of the illegal drugs.

I learned something new reading this article. I experimented with drugs in my youth, but don’t take any anymore. So learning about this new way to sidestep the drug laws was a bit of a revelation to me. I mean I’d heard of people abusing prescription meds, but it never occurred to me that some...

I'm watching the good ol' Bait Car videos on Youtube...and I can't help noticing that in about 5 out of the 6 videos I've watched so far...the thieves are either discussing scoring drugs or are blatantly hitting on crack pipes etc. while in the car. The other video, the kids involved SEEM pretty...

The hypothetical in the original version wasn't very precise, therefore I shall make another attempt. Basically, much of the confusion originated from me having tried to ponder at least two separate issues at once and not having succeeded at all. I shall therefore re-formulate these as...

The Lost War is an excellent article that reveals how futile and counterproductive the so-called "War on Drugs" is. This is not to suggest that illicit drugs or drug addiction are harmless, but rather that our punative approach to dealing with them causes more harm than it prevents. Simply put...

Article here Step 1: Give away antibiotics.....Step 3: Take over the world! This appears to be a really great move. Give away inexpensive Rxs, and bring people into the store who may have otherwise gone to another pharmacy. While there, "hey why not pick up some x, and I could use some y...

In the recent Autism thread there where statements made about the response of children with ADD to Ritalin differing from neurotypical children. The idea is that children with ADD find the stimulant calming while neurotypical children would not be calmed by a stimulant. As some of the more...

I was just thinking -- I've heard countless people say they have gotten off drugs through Christianity but have never heard anyone say atheism has gotten them off drugs?