A Link with Dementia
“The genetic analyses results (showed) that even small amounts of alcohol could increase dementia risk…”
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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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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Watch Out for ‘Vitamin K’
Now that more of the widely abused anesthetic is in circulation for so-called ‘recreational’ purposes, new (and strange) consequences have begun to emerge.
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Colombia Wants to Legalize Coke Worldwide
…back in the USA– drug overdose deaths ‘involving’ cocaine have risen steadily over the past decade,
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Ayahuasca Bros
What is it about having consumed hallucinogenic tea in a remote forest clearing, and as a result, spending the next few hours first vomiting, then hallucinating, and finally alternating between euphoria and intense fear, that could possibly transform the user into better, more effective corporate leader?
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