Russians Love Their Vodka
Public health is a pipe dream when, as happened in the 1990’s, a typical adult male Russian consumed an estimated one hundred and eighty bottles of vodka annually.
Category: Addictive Substances
Alcohol may be the oldest. New ones are being invented every day. There are thousands, and keeping track of what they are and what they do isn’t easy.
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Ayahuasca on the Brain
When the trip ends, the writer acknowledges, the user may be “…throwing up or having trouble at the other end.”
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In The House of Shrooms
Also, one of the local rags had a few Shroom House products tested and discovered, to no one’s surprise, that some had been made from synthetics. Not the ‘real thing’, after all.
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What color is your fentanyl?
The President went on to insist that Mexican-made fentanyl pills only came in blue–
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Jazzed on GHB
Anybody concerned that some GHB-based prescribed meds will be diverted for illicit use?
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Borg Invasion
Colleges, in my experience, have a weirdly ambivalent attitude towards this kind of behavior from their students.
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When ketamine isn’t the cure…
If 25% of patients in studies either 1) didn’t benefit or 2) had a negative experience, perhaps even a terrifying one– that’s a lot.
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Death Letter
The researchers were interested in whether receipt of such a letter would cause the physician to be more cautious in prescribing in future. The answer: It did.
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Dr. Friedman on the Brain & Pot
They seem proud of that, as if it were evidence of strength of character, rather than a sign of deep dependence on the drug.
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That Alcohol Report from Canada
…of course alcohol isn’t healthy. It’s a damn toxin, people.
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