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  • What’s In Your Water?


    AdPharm BlogAuthority Authority: 141
    Recent news out of the State of Minnesota reports that bong water is now classified as an illegal drug. That’s right, bong water . Minnesota’s Supreme Court now says a person can be prosecuted for a first-degree drug crime for 25 grams (not milliliters?) or more of bong water that tests positive for a ...
    20 hours ago
  • The Health Risks Associated With The Use Of Anabolic Steroids


    Wish Everyone Good Health.Authority Authority: 465
    Anabolic steroids are classed as illegal drugs and are banned by most legitimate sports organizations. There can be no disputing the fact that testosterone boosts the development of muscle mass and aids sporting performance. Equally there is no doubt that its use can adversely affect the health and wellbeing of ...
    1 week ago
  • Has Alan Johnson made a hash of his leadership bid?


    Britology Watch: Deconstructing 'British Values'Authority Authority: 411
    No smoke without fire, as they say; or, in this instance, no smoking gun without getting your enemy to shoot themselves in the foot by firing someone they shouldn’t! I’m getting into this conspiracy malarkey! When I first heard the news that Home Secretary Alan Johnson had taken the ill-advised decision to sack ...
    1 week ago
  • Link Between Stress-Induced Changes In Brain Circuitry And Cocaine Relapse


    Health News from Medical News TodayAuthority Authority: 739
    Stress-evoked changes in circuits that regulate serotonin in certain parts of the brain can precipitate a low mood and a relapse in cocaine-seeking, based on mouse studies published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
    1 week ago
  • The Prohibition of illicit drugs is a foolish war against comparatively harmless substances.


    ORGANIZED RAGEAuthority Authority: 422
    Otherwise intelligent people, on reaching high political office, often seem pre-programmed to abandon independent thought and end up behaving like imbeciles;  others might be less generous and regard such folk as lackeys of powerful forces with the power to lobby central government successfully.  Members ...
    1 week ago
  • Jason Shih, Corzine Staffer Cover Up?


    David DrakeAuthority Authority: 426
    Jason Shih was arrested for possession of Ecstasy . NJ.com : Jason Shih, 25, was pulled over on Route 17 by East Rutherford police around 11:30 p.m. Friday for allegedly talking on his cell phone. Police found 19 Ecstasy tablets and hundreds of small glassine bags used for distributing drugs, police ...
    1 week ago
  • Brother of Afghan Leader Said to Be Paid by C.I.A.


    PID NewsAuthority Authority: 138
    KABUL, Afghanistan — Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials.The agency pays ...
    1 week ago
  • Andre Agassi is still my hero


    Niki CheongAuthority Authority: 471
    I took up tennis in my early teens, around the same time Andre Agassi won his first Grand Slam. Now, I wouldn’t say that he was the cause for my interest in the game. After all, we didn’t have Astro then, and I’ve barely watched a tennis game. Still, I do remember reading all these articles about the bad boy of ...
    1 week ago
  • LSD and cannabis less harmful than alcohol, says UK govt’s drug expert


    Thaindian NewsAuthority Authority: 725
    London, Oct 29 (ANI): In what could come as a rude shock to many alcoholics and smokers, the British government’s drug adviser has said that drugs like Ecstasy, LSD and cannabis are less harmful than alcohol and cigarettes.Criticising former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s decision to rate cannabis as a Class B ...
    1 week ago
  • Alcohol Depression: The Bottle May be Increasing the Depression


    Wish Everyone Good Health.Authority Authority: 465
    Alcohol depression is very grave and should not be one?s state of living, however just how one can overcome this form of depression could be quite challenging as two factors are being addressed here: a substance abuse and an emotional disturbance.Dealing with depression means at the moment you may not be feeling too ...
    1 week ago
  • Driven To Drink By Your Genes


    Health News from Medical News TodayAuthority Authority: 739
    Your genetic make up may predispose you to drink more but may not increase your genetic risk for alcoholism (alcohol dependence). Research published in the open access journal, BMC Biology, pinpoints genetic pathways and genes associated with levels of alcohol consumption but not with alcohol dependence in rats and ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Examining Genetic Variations Among The Huichol Population Of Mexico


    Health News from Medical News TodayAuthority Authority: 739
    Alcohol abuse is a leading cause of liver cirrhosis in Mexico.
    2 weeks ago
  • Alcohol Misuse Among Adolescents


    Health News from Medical News TodayAuthority Authority: 739
    While many genetic studies have examined alcoholism among adults, identifying genes that are associated with alcohol misuse during youth is equally important, given that genetic and environmental influences on alcoholism vary across development. New findings show an association between a polymorphism of the ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Japanese Pop Star, Noriko Sakai, Admits to Drug Use


    BlogoncherryAuthority Authority: 517
    Japanese pop star and actress, Noriko Sakai, pleaded guilty Monday to illegal drugs charges and prosecutors demanded 18 months’ jail in a trial that has sparked intense public interest and frenzied media coverage.Noriko Sakai was born on February 14, 1971 in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. She married in 1998, ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Packages Of Care For Alcohol Use Disorders In Low- And Middle-Income Countries


    Health News from Medical News TodayAuthority Authority: 739
    In the latest article in PLoS Medicines series proposing the delivery of packages of care for mental, neurological and substance-use disorders in low- and middle-income countries, Vivek Benegal and colleagues discuss the treatment of alcohol use disorders in settings where resources are limited.
    2 weeks ago
  • Monday Morning JetLawg


    JETLawBlog: The Official Blog of the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology LawAuthority Authority: 126
    In the news . . . Musicians use Freedom of Information Act to find out how the government is using their music. The continued battle over net neutrality . New music service being launched by Google, iLike and Lala partnership. Big Brother winner Adam Jasinski uses prize money to buy and sell ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Great moments in drug enforcement law


    OverlawyeredAuthority Authority: 646
    Counting the weight of water in reaching for maximum penalties: “The Minnesota Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision, has now ruled that Bong Water (water which had been used in a water pipe) was a ‘mixture’ of ‘25 grams or more’ supporting a criminal conviction for Controlled Substance crime in the first ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Adolescents Gambling A Part Of A Cluster Of Problem Behaviors


    Health News from Medical News TodayAuthority Authority: 739
    Ten percent of young adolescent boys -- or one in 10 -- exhibit a symptom of conduct disorder as well as a symptom of risky or problem gambling, according to new research findings from the University at Buffalos Research Institute on Addictions (RIA). As the number of conduct disorder symptoms increase, the number ...
    2 weeks ago
  • U.N. Report Documents How Opium Contributes To Spread Of Disease, Deaths


    Health News from Medical News TodayAuthority Authority: 739
    The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Wednesday released a report - "Addiction, Crime and Insurgency: The Transnational Threat of Afghan Opium" - documenting how "[t]he smuggling of Afghan opiates is fueling addiction and drug use along trafficking routes from Iran to Central Asia," and contributing to the ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Even Low Alcohol Consumption Has A Negative Impact On Overall Health


    Health News from Medical News TodayAuthority Authority: 739
    Low alcohol consumption is bad for your health in general. Researchers writing in BioMed Centrals open access journal Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation studied the relationship between alcohol consumption and health to test the current theory which suggests improved health is responsible for the link found ...
    2 weeks ago

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