Colombia Wants to Legalize Coke Worldwide
...back in the USA-- drug overdose deaths ‘involving’ cocaine have risen steadily over the past decade,
Category: Thinking About Addiction
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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A World on Speed
…it’s possible that one or more of the other major players in the region would attempt to take over.
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Waterbound?
…drugs, being so ridiculously easy to conceal, are a perennial favorite for any sort of smuggling operation.
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A Problem with the Evidence
Current best estimates are that only some 25 to 30 percent of us are capable of reading and understanding the content of the New York Times Science section.
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Safer Supply?
…it appears that a significant percent of the opioid medication is being diverted– for resale on the street, probably, or swapped for the illicit stuff.
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Now Where?
Right now, and very recently, the curve of overdoses has sloped downward. It’s the first real decline we’ve seen in a long time.
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More on Pot in Politics
Nonetheless, the commercial cannabis industry expects a demonstration of that level of support from the public to motivate the Florida legislature to revisit the issue,..
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Gambling — A Public Health Issue?
…because gambling is now an industry with vast resources and a huge political presence, we can expect… significant resistance from those quarters.
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Arc of the Pendulum
Instead, our habit has been to rush head first in one direction, then reverse and rush back the opposite way
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Some Downward Progress
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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Odds & Ends from Research
And according to the researchers, (SGB) seems to have a positive impact on other problems that co-occur with PTSD– anxiety, depression, alcohol consumption.
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Mean Green
At this point in the US, there are allegedly a couple of hundred thousand people who would reasonably qualify as ketamine-addicted.
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