A World on Speed
...it's possible that one or more of the other major players in the region would attempt to take over.
Category: In the News
One of the oldest diseases in the world, and we still don’t know as much as we should about its causes, effects, and how to treat it- much less cure it. What we do know, and what we’re learning, ends up here:
In the News
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Legal Cannabis: Success or Not?
…it’s an omen of bad times to come. Why? Because people in New Mexico’s cities are not buying enough pot.
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Bongs for Sale, Cheap
…the goal, as one official described it, is to “discourage unlicensed cannabis activities and to help level the playing field for legitimate businesses paying their taxes.”
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Presidential Pill Mill?
I know something about how healthcare professionals are trained to manage medications, and this isn’t it.
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Odds & Ends
…they may have purchased what they believe to be cocaine, or methamphetamine, or heroin, any or all of which may have been ‘cut’ with fentanyl or another uber-potent synthetic opioid, in sufficient quantity to overcome their tolerance and put them in imminent danger of death.
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Back in Court — Pill Mill edition
A lone physician was found to have prescribed more than 500,000 doses of prescription opioids to assorted patients in little more than two years of medical practice.
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Fatal for These Fans
In the absence of much factual information, wild theories have proliferated.
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Another Try at a Cannabis Test
If the current versions of the saliva test hold up to regular use throughout the year long trial, it’s likely state government will make their use permanent.
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Trouble, Spanish-style
There has been speculation that something about people from the UK makes them especially vulnerable to agranulocytosis.
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Two Ketamine Fatalities
“During our training, we were told numerous times that this is a safe, effective drug,” one of the two testified.
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Sacklers Meet Supremes
After all, though P-P folded, and billions were lost, in the end the owners managed to get away with the bulk of their fortune, and ultimately to avoid the most serious consequences of their actions.
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Celebs Getting Sober
These could be interpreted as signs that someone is in the Action stage of change. That’s not a bad place to be, provided you keep at it and don’t give up.
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A Deputy and a Drug Trafficker
But, his lawyer reminds us, we shouldn’t forget that his client is ‘only’ 25 years old. Not only that, the client reportedly has assured his attorney that “…I promise you, I’m not a bad person.”
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