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Diaries are bad for you, mmmkay?

Diaries are bad for you, mmmkay? 09/09/2004 03:53 AM
New Scientist says that diaries are bad for you:

The UK researchers speculate that this is due to the fact that diarists are likely to mull over trauma more than those who do not keep a record of their failings. Sort of makes sense, even though I'm sure there is some relief in penning down your feelings.

But this is actually one of the reasons blogs are not just net diaries. Unlike diaries, which are usually protected by locks and cupboards, and guarded with fierce flames of privacy, blogs are for sharing things. Blogs thrive with readership, which makes them somewhat akin to peer support groups. Blogs encourage discussion and hopefully, responses from people. And even if nobody replied or commented, there is some relief that somewhere, someone reads your blog. Somebody finds it interesting enough to keep subscribing, regardless of the angst you pour out.

And that is a comforting thought.

(Via synapsi.net)

tell me about your drugs

tell me about your drugs 08/18/2004 04:40 PM
New York retail prescription drug prices. New York [USA] has a state law requiring pharmacies to keep and provide a Drug Retail Price List for the 150 most commonly prescribed drugs. The NY State Attorney General's Office collects that information monthly and makes it searchable by zipcode, city or county. The stark comparisons show that even within one region, retail drug prices can vary by as much as $120, or 50%. With five million New Yorkers uninsured and having to buy their medications at retail prices, this is a handy new tool.

War on (Some) Drugs?

War on (Some) Drugs? 12/19/2004 03:24 PM
Real Reason the Government Won't Debate Legalization of medical cannabis and industrial hemp re-legalization? Since reading the previous AARP FPP and an article about how DEA Ruling Renders Federal Approval of Medical Marijuana Impossible while the Supreme Court weighs marijuana as medicine, I found the historical perspective in "Real Reason" about how the current state of insanity quite enlightening... and not too hard to believe. (Please try to separate information herein from its location and knee-jerk accusations of Godwinism.)

Got drugs?

Got drugs? 12/17/2004 06:42 PM
Tired? Need a boost? Everything you ever wanted to know about one of America's favourite energy boosters. This website contains 25 pages covering the history, uses (both legitimate and illegitimate), and biological characteristics of cocaine and the coca plant. An interesting read for those with time to kill (like me). Possibly NSFW.

Say Yo to Drugs

Say Yo to Drugs 04/19/2004 08:26 AM
It will be a busy week for the country's leading drug makers.

Ralph Got Me Off Drugs

Ralph Got Me Off Drugs 07/04/2004 06:54 PM
A patient pledge at Thakrambok Monastery in Thailand, the world's harshest drug rehab facility: "I will attend the mandatory parts of the 10 day treatment, such as 'vomiting' on at least the first 5 days."

No drugs for you, pal...you'll just get
addicted.

No drugs for you, pal...you'll just get
addicted. 02/17/2004 05:12 PM
DE A wants to reclassify low grade painkillers as morphine equivilants. The DEA, in all it's wisdom, has decided that the next target on the "war on drugs" is hydrocodone, the most commonly used prescription pain killer in the country. "Ah," you say..."but surely there's congressional oversight for that sort of radical change in the Drug Schedule." But you'd be wrong. Funny old world when the budget and staff keeping getting bigger and bigger and the only way they can win a battle is to chase the arthritic.

Power Drugs

Power Drugs 09/20/2004 01:04 AM
Technology Review Sep 20 2004 5:40AM GMT

War On Drugs Clock

War On Drugs Clock 01/10/2004 07:58 PM
with so many resumes to choose from .. dog-choking rail of columbian .. The War on Drugs Clock .. drug problems .. $600/second .. these days .. disaster .. results .. clock .. drugs .. war

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This really is your brain on drugs

This really is your brain on drugs 02/18/2004 07:33 AM
In "Mind Wide Open" Steven Johnson looks under the cranial hood to find out what makes him -- and us -- tick.

Sports and the War on (Some) Drugs

Sports and the War on (Some) Drugs 05/27/2004 09:35 AM

In this remarkable story, the Mercury News shows how laboratories helped turn athletes into record-beaters. It's more fuel on the fire in a movement to keep athletes from using performance-enhancing drugs of any kind. The whole scandal reeks of hypocrisy, at every level. Sports is big money, and people will do just about anything to get some of it. The public doesn't really care about athletes who do outrageous things to build their bodies; if the public really cared then the average lineman in pro football wouldn't weigh more than 300 pounds. We want our entertainment. We will get it. The sports establishment -- the franchise owners and the leaders of national and international associations -- are worse. They're hungry for power and television fees, and not much else. The war on (some) drugs has always been the most hypocritical of all. I use a performance-enhancing drug every morning. It's called caffeine, and it's in my coffee. Uh, oh, call the morality police, right? Too much caffeine, like too much steroids, could do severe harm. Yet somehow I'm able to moderate my intake. I'm in the middle of a fascinating short book just published by the Independent Institute, a right-to-libertarian think tank. It's called "Drug War Crimes: The Consequences of Prohibition" -- and it's an indictment of the war itself. I'll tell you more about the book in a follow-up posting soon, but the bottom line is that the negative costs of the drug war are undoubtedly higher than we'd pay if we did the smart thing and legalized drugs and treated abusers for health problems, not as criminals.

"Drugs of Abuse"

"Drugs of Abuse" 04/16/2005 02:52 AM

Cost of drugs

Cost of drugs 07/15/2004 05:26 AM
Any of you old enough to be worried about the price of drugs? It goes on and on.

The War On Drugs In The Classroom

The War On Drugs In The Classroom 11/10/2003 11:30 PM
The video shows police officers and K-9 units ordering suspects to the ground while they conducted a sweep. A tip had come in about clandestine drug activity, and in previous weeks one youth had been caught trying to distribute hundreds of prescription drug pills. During the sweep, police detained 107 underage suspects while they searched their backpacks. Police found no drugs, and were only able to report that some 12 backpacks had been singled out by the police dogs. Now if you were thinking this was a typical rave-turned-police bust, you're wrong. This was just before first period at Stratford High School in the sleepy Charlotte suburb of Goose Creek, South Carolina.

ScriptCenter: ATM for Drugs

ScriptCenter: ATM for Drugs 06/24/2005 04:01 PM

New ATM-like prescription machines are being rolled out in California and Virginia, where new changes in states' laws allow medicines to be dispensed without a pharmacist. This new machine, called the 'ScriptCenter,' has been installed at a Longs Drug in Del Mar, California, and coughs up as much Furosemide and Metformin as your pharmacist has loaded into it. That's the thing—it's not like there's a robot in there with a mortar and pestle. Instead, you call your orders in like normal, and the techs load the machine up with your drugs, which you unlock with a secret code and pay for with a credit card. That means you can pick up your prescriptions any time you want, not just when the pharmacy is open.

A New Way to Get Refills [MedGadget]

This Is Your Brain on Drugs

This Is Your Brain on Drugs 05/31/2004 05:26 AM
Scientists are developing technology to peer into the brains of people taking antidepressants, hoping to cut down on the arduous process of evaluating the drugs. As of now, each patient is an individual clinical trial.

Make drugs not war

Make drugs not war 03/20/2003 08:56 PM
Why would you purchase a former missile base? To manufacter LSD, of course.

Two charged over drugs haul

Two charged over drugs haul 12/24/2004 12:23 PM
Two people appear at a special court charged in connection with a major drugs find in County Antrim.

More using drugs to get a million-dollar
look

More using drugs to get a million-dollar
look 08/15/2004 06:53 PM
Straits Times Aug 15 2004 11:15PM GMT

Sex, drugs and cans of spam

Sex, drugs and cans of spam 02/19/2004 10:16 AM
Viagra and diet pills jamming inboxes everywhere

'Sports' drugs even more damaging

'Sports' drugs even more damaging 08/10/2004 11:04 PM
Tests show anabolic steroids abused by athletes to increase performance weaken the body's natural defence against infection.

Rio asks for troops in drugs war

Rio asks for troops in drugs war 04/14/2004 11:54 AM
Rio authorities request 4,000 soldiers to help stop a drugs war between rival gangs in the city's slums.

Five held over £35m drugs haul

Five held over £35m drugs haul 04/14/2004 02:37 PM
Five people are arrested as customs officers seize cannabis worth £35m at Liverpool Docks.

New era of cancer drugs (USATODAY.com)

New era of cancer drugs (USATODAY.com) 06/07/2004 07:14 AM
USATODAY.com - A new generation of experimental cancer-fighting drugs - most of them so new that they don't yet have names - might one day change the way doctors treat advanced cancers, scientists announced Sunday.

Cancer Drugs Aim at More Targets

Cancer Drugs Aim at More Targets 06/07/2004 06:01 AM
In a 'cluster bomb' approach, drug companies are doing clinical trials of a new generation of cancer drugs that can attack cancer cells on multiple fronts. Some worry about side effects of the new therapy.

Our Insane War on (Some) Drugs,
Continued

Our Insane War on (Some) Drugs,
Continued 04/25/2004 10:13 PM

Reason: Pill Sham. Here's a bit of legal information that may interest Rush Limbaugh: Under Florida law, illegally obtaining more than 28 grams of painkillers containing the narcotic oxycodone—a threshold exceeded by a single 60-pill Percocet prescription—automatically makes you the worst sort of drug trafficker, even if you never sold a single pill. Even if, like Richard Paey, you were using the drugs to relieve severe chronic pain.

Reimporting Drugs: No Cheap Fix

Reimporting Drugs: No Cheap Fix 04/29/2004 09:02 AM
Business Week Apr 29 2004 1:18PM GMT

Canadian Net drugs safe

Canadian Net drugs safe 09/17/2004 08:08 PM
globetechnology.com Sep 18 2004 0:09AM GMT

Cognitive Enhancement Drugs

Cognitive Enhancement Drugs 12/22/2004 01:40 AM
Slashdot Dec 21 2004 12:31AM GMT

Thank heaven for good drugs

Thank heaven for good drugs 09/04/2004 06:36 AM

Bill Clinton called into the special Larry King roundup on his bypass surgery. He sounded great. Of course I projected my own experience onto his. I sounded great too, at that point in the process. They're pumping relaxing drugs into your system. I don't think you could feel anxious, no matter what. Good drugs.

It didn't really come home what was going to happen until the guy came in to shave my chest the morning of the surgery. He didn't stop there. Basically every single square inch of my body was shaved, except for the top of my head. I tried to make light conversation, but my mind was on what was about to happen.

Before they carted me away I had to go into the lavatory and wash everything I could reach. That's when I fell apart. Sobbing, crying, wanting to get out of there. I looked at my chest and realized this was the last time I was going to see it. I had a pretty good idea of what they do in bypass surgery, and I had a visual image there and then of my vital organs coming out through a big hole there. I collapsed, got up and put myself in the rolling bed they had brought in, and let them roll me into the surgery part of the heart clinic.

Somewhere along the line they must have hooked up something intravenously, because while I was waiting in the corridor for someone to come get me, I got really high. Cracking jokes, and sort of observing all the preparations for the surgery. I'm not sure if I was actually in the operating room, but let me tell you, I sure didn't mind. Next thing I knew I was crawling my way through some weird weird ideas into a strange reality, the recovery room. There was an attendent there, reading a magazine, giving me ice cubes to suck on (I was really thirsty) and giving me more opiates to keep me from freaking out. When morning came (24 hours since the beginning of the surgery) they brought me breakfast, and made me get out of bed to eat it. I did.

They don't let you lie in bed for any long period after the surgery, if they did you'd get even sicker, gotta get moving asap. The amazing thing is that your body can do it. I remember the first walks I took around the cardiac ward were the most gratifying of my life. But I wasn't out of the emotional hole yet. Maybe I'll write more about that after Bill Clinton has his surgery.

Yesterday he cracked a great joke, "Like the Republicans, I want four more years." Here's lookin at you kid. Murphy-willing, knock wood, I am not a doctor (or a Republican), it should be a lot more than four more years.

New Tricks for Anticholesterol Drugs?

New Tricks for Anticholesterol Drugs? 09/01/2004 01:16 PM
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{fray} drugs - the worm within

{fray} drugs - the worm within 05/07/2004 12:14 PM
{fray} the worm within .. what it’s like

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Canada may cut off drugs via mail, Net

Canada may cut off drugs via mail, Net 01/07/2005 02:25 AM
Chicagotribune.com - Thu Jan 6, 01:32 pm GMT

"My life now is still like it was in the
'60s, but without all the sex and drugs"

"My life now is still like it was in the
'60s, but without all the sex and drugs" 11/17/2003 04:22 AM
Wired News has a nice write-up on ibiblio .. Where Sharing Isn't a Dirty Word .. isnt naughty .. Click .. Wired

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Generic drugs are cheaper...sometimes

Generic drugs are cheaper...sometimes 01/19/2004 07:18 AM
A n AP story says that generic drugs are cheaper than half price brand name drugs from Canada. What the FDA doesn't say is that most of the time, you can't get generics. The FDA acknowledges that there is a 20 year lag time due to patents. So, if you want an old drug, fine, but most of the time, I suggest, foreign drugs are still cheaper, if you can get them from a reputable source that hasn't been bullied yet.

Generic Drugs Forum

Generic Drugs Forum 11/05/2003 03:01 AM
marcus evans Oct 21 2003 2:59PM ET

Sex and drugs and internet searches

Sex and drugs and internet searches 12/03/2003 03:02 AM
Google joins others in banning ads from illegal online pharmacies. Other search services use "content partnerships" to get around their own bans on sex-related ads.

Has the war on terror hurt the war on
drugs?

Has the war on terror hurt the war on
drugs? 03/14/2005 06:14 PM
New reports reveal that global demand for illegal substances is higher than ever despite actions to curb supply.

Blueprint points to better drugs

Blueprint points to better drugs 04/15/2005 06:51 PM
globetechnology.com Apr 15 2005 10:48PM GMT
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