“Scromiting”
It must come as a shock to someone who’s been a regular user for a while, to suddenly without warning begin experiencing violent vomiting and pain.
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Ketamine Slumber
As with other fast- growing, largely unregulated new healthcare industries, observers are getting concerned about a rising number of incidents, some quite serious.
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A Cult Phenomenon
…along with its newfound respectability, the widespread use of psychedelic drugs in therapy and for spiritual growth has attracted some pretty unscrupulous individuals.
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An Odd Situation Indeed
“…Patients who test negative, and their clinicians, may have a false sense of security about use of opioids…” Something that we know from long, long experience can be dangerous.
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Odds & Ends from Pot Nation
To date, we continue to lack a widely- used, effective roadside method for detecting cannabis impaired driving.
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Yet Another Ancient Hallucinogen, Reborn
…ibogaine has been associated with “… serious adverse effects that can occur due to undiagnosed health conditions and/or concomitant use of other drugs.” As well as 33 recorded deaths.
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Super-Meth?
The NYT article did strike me as, well, a bit histrionic in tone, along the lines of the early media pieces about crack following the death of basketball star Len Bias.
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Gas Station Heroin, Again
I can’t help thinking that unintentional ODs would be fairly common, since the recommended doses on the product label would be, well, unreliable.
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Ancestry of Alcohol
It’s easy to understand how primates and other animals discovered fermentation — it happens naturally when fruit is left to lay around.
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Adventures in Shrooming
What is the psilocybin content of any particular dried mushroom? Does anybody know?
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A Student of Psychedelics…
That sounds expensive and time-consuming, which would make it less attractive to third-party payers such as insurance companies.
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Sad, But Also True
She wasn’t being entirely altruistic– she did charge participants a cool five hundred dollars apiece– but it’s reasonable to assume that she meant well, with no intent to cause harm.
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Another wave of OD?
“Overdose deaths from carfentanil…[increased] from 29 between January and June 2023 to 238 in that same period in 2024.” That’s a heck of a year-over-year increase, although it still represents only a small percentage of total fatalities.
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