Entries Tagged as 'drugs'

Saturday, January 8th, 2011

Swiss approve prescription heroin

Swiss voters have approved a radical health policy that offers prescription heroin to addicts on a permanent basis. Final results from the national referendum showed 68% of voters supported the plan. The scheme, allowing addicts to inject the drug under medical supervision at a clinic, began in Zurich 14 years ago before spreading across the [...]

Saturday, January 8th, 2011

Opium producing yeast

Canadian researchers have unlocked the genetic secrets of the poppy plant, raising the possibility of making powerful narcotics from simple raw materials. Building on the discovery of two elusive genes that enable the opium poppy to make morphine and codeine, researchers inserted synthetic versions of those genes into yeast and coaxed it to produced the [...]

Saturday, December 11th, 2010

“Everybody Hurts” – anti-impaired driving ad

via youtube.com This is a really powerful film. It really captures the horror you feel in an accident. Note that it’s quite graphic. Via Kevin Warnock.

Sunday, November 28th, 2010

What is the most harmful drug? – Barking up the wrong tree

The nine categories in harm to self are drug-specific mortality, drug-related mortality, drug-specific damage, drug-related damage, dependence, drug-specific impairment of mental function, drug-related impairment of mental functioning, loss of tangibles, loss of relationships, and injury. The harm to others categories are crime, environmental damage, family conflict, international damage, economic cost, and decline in community cohesion. [...]

Sunday, November 28th, 2010

Ibogaine has helped addicts kick meth and heroin. Is it the trip that does the trick?

“Cocaine, meth, nicotine, morphine — we did the same studies with 18-MC, and it worked as well or better than ibogaine,” Glick says. “We also have data that it will be useful in treating obesity. In animals, it blocks their intake of sweet and fatty foods without affecting their nutrient intake.” Glick and his cohorts [...]

Monday, November 8th, 2010

‘Magic mushrooms’ ingredient may ease end-of-life anxiety

via cnn.com “Terminally ill cancer patients struggling with anxiety may get some relief from a guided “trip” on the hallucinogenic drug psilocybin, a new study suggests. The study included 12 patients who took a small dose of psilocybin — the active ingredient in “magic mushrooms” — while under the supervision of trained therapists. In a [...]

Friday, July 9th, 2010

LSD : The Frontal Cortex

There is no question that, at least for a period of time, LSD truly transformed Cary Grant…Much to his friends’ surprise, Cary Grant began talking about his therapy in public, lamenting, “Oh those wasted years, why didn’t I do this sooner?” “The Curious Story Behind the New Cary Grant,” headlined the September 1, 1959 issue [...]

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

Dr. Persinger’s God Helmet

via youtube.com Via Robert Abbott. Posted via web from crasch’s posterous

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

Psychedelic drugs aid anxiety treatments in cancer patients

Edlich, whose cancer forced her to retire from teaching French at a private school, had plenty of reason to seek help through the NYU project. Several recurrences of her ovarian cancer had provoked fears about suffering and dying and how her death would affect her family. She felt “profound sadness that my life was going [...]

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

SWAT Cops Shoot Pets With Children Present

via youtube.com Note that this is not unusual! The cops were following a standard operating procedure. Our country has become a police state. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62O08U20100325 Posted via web from crasch’s posterous