October 6th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Culture
By Melanie Phillips A silent coup has taken place in drugs policy. The legalisers have captured the Home Office. The government has quietly downgraded its attempt to reduce the number of people taking illegal drugs. This astonishing development became clear last Friday, when the Home Office minister Bob Ainsworth told a conference that the government [...]
October 6th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Culture
By E. Patrick Curry Lester Grinspoon blithely dismisses any serious health considerations in the smoking of marijuana. Indeed, Dr. Grinspoon – a longtime proponent of legalization of not only marijuana but also of a wide range of psychedelic drugs – has routinely dismissed most evidence of the deleterious effects of smoked marijuana, attributing it to [...]
October 6th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Culture
Most Canadians pay little attention to news that another marijuana grow-operation in a suburban neighbourhood has resulted in arrests and seizure of a few hundred pot plants. But would they care more if they knew that marijuana operations cost homeowners about $34 apiece extra each year on their electricity bills? According to Klaas Degroot, board [...]
October 6th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Culture
Un Renews Pledge Of Allegiance To Prohibition Without Assessing The Disastrous Results Of International The Transnational Radical Party (TRP) and the International Antiprohibitionist League (IAL), two organizations that hare promoting a worldwide campaign to reform the three UN Conventions on Drugs to allow a legal regulation of illicit drugs have participated in the 46th session [...]
October 6th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Culture
ELIJAH LIBERAL, an attendant at Elmer’s Gas and Go was arrested today and charged with second-degree murder in the deaths of four area teenagers. The bodies of Frankie Hypo and his companions, John Vein, Michael Sharp, and Robert “Bobbie” Venous were pulled from the twisted wreckage of Hypo’s Z-28 on US Route 66 early this [...]
October 6th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Culture, For Parents
Cook with your family Plan one on one dinners/weekend brunches Enable your child to be artistic (writing, drawing painting, comic book drawing, photography, computer graphics) Get involved with your child’s organized sports/Exercise together Suggest school clubs and societies for your child to join, like drama or foreign language club Encourage your child to play a [...]
October 6th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Culture
Alcohol-Free Dance (Rave) Parties Raves are late-night dance parties that are held in dance clubs or at temporary venues such as warehouses, open fields, parks or empty buildings. Some simply take place in suburbia in the homes of youth whose parents are out of town. The rave trend started in Europe in the 80s and [...]
October 6th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Culture
Victims of drug-facilitated assault do not have the chance to say no or physically resist. Gamma Hydroxy Butyrate (GHB) and Rohypnol are two of the most common drugs used to incapacitate victims for drug rape or robbery. Figures indicate that drug rape has risen by 60 percent in the last two years and is still [...]
October 6th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Culture, For Parents
If you are suspicious that your child may be using drugs, don’t ignore the warning signs! Kids seldom grasp the concept of addiction and think of themselves as immune to danger. For some, drugs become a tempting escape from their world. If many of these signs seem applicable to your teen, don’t despair. Effective help [...]
October 6th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Culture, For Parents
According to behavioral health and family-life consultants, substance abuse problems are highly treatable. With professional help and family involvement, the chances for recovery are excellent. If you suspect your child may be experimenting with drugs, the following is recommended: Do not go it alone. Ask for emotional support. Let trusted friends, family or clergy in [...]
The world’s best business model has always been addiction. Tobacco and alcohol have been around for ages, but new temptations and spinoffs are being marketed all the time: meth, painkillers, energy drinks, you name it.
Importantly, the study also finds that the risk of violence from patients with psychoses who also have substance use disorder is no greater than those who have a substance use disorder but who do not have a psychotic illness – in other words, schizophrenia and other psychotic illnesses do not appear to be responsible for any additional risk of violence above the increased risk associated with substance abuse.
Smoking marijuana over an extended period of time appears to greatly boost a young man’s risk for developing a particularly aggressive form of testicular cancer, a new study reveals. [...]
Relief from pain. In some people, prescription pain relievers also cause euphoria or feelings of well being by affecting the brain regions that mediate pleasure. This is why they are abused. Other effects include drowsiness, constipation and slowed breathing. [...]
On Sunday researchers at the University of Buffalo reported that Ritalin, used on children diagnosed with ADHD, may cause long-term changes in the brain. Many clinicians regard Ritalin as short-acting but the research with gene expression in an animal model suggests that it has the potential for causing long-lasting changes [...]
The body produces many chemicals and hormones, i.e., histamines, steroids, thyroid hormone, digitalis-like substances, adrenalin, etc, all of which work by attaching to corresponding brain receptors. The key is that these natural substances produced by the body are present in nanogram amounts [...]
As California State Assembly member Tom Ammiano put it: “What if California could raise hundreds of millions of dollars in new revenue to preserve vital state services without any tax increase?” [...]
“The fight against drugs is actually the fight for Afghanistan,” said Afghan President Hamid Karzai when he took office in 2002. Judging by the current situation, Afghanistan is losing. [...]
Among the things everybody knows is that Democrats, being the party of the little people, raise money in small contributions, whereas Republicans, being the party of fat cats, raise funds in huge basketfuls from wealthy corporate types. At least, that’s the way the world is usually portrayed by the “Today Show,” The New York Times and the Democratic Party. So it’s of more than passing interest to see [...]