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.
“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.
A whole range of psychedelic substances can apparently trigger HPPD
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It appears to attract younger CEO’s from industries such as technology, entertainment, and high finance. It’s here that we encounter language such as ‘visioning’, ‘aspirationalizing’, and ‘future-proofing’, whatever that may be.
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…we made a popular drug of abuse legal, widely available in shops and online, and proceed to market the heck out of it– did we really think that the number of users would go down?
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Of course, if he’s buying drugs off the Internet, they could contain just about any level of THC. How do we know the maker even checked the THC level? Or cared, for that matter?
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As of 2023, some 14.2% of Americans over the age of 12 acknowledge having tried cocaine at least once. Among illegal drugs, that still ranks second only to marijuana
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…pink cocaine could be classified as a stimulant (MDMA), a psychedelic (the aforementioned 2-CB), and a dissociative anesthetic (ketamine). Along with whatever else the outlaw chemist may have had lying around the lab at the time.
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…teens are ‘the ultimate herd animals’ when it came to experimentation with drugs. “They’ll try something they know to be risky, simply because they’ve heard others have tried it. It’s as if they’re convinced they’ll fall behind if they don’t.”
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Of course, we should expect significant opposition from the alcohol industry.
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In some instances involving the elderly, the practitioner thinks treatment isn’t worth the effort. “I don’t see the point, especially when she may not have that much time left anyway,”
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…if a patient simply follows the prescribed directions, they can’t possibly get in trouble with a medication like Xanax? I find that remarkably naive.
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Many older folks turn to cannabis to self-medicate the pain and sleep problems that can plague old age. As they become dependent on cannabis, we could see the emergence of more health-related problems there.
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