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Glasgow 2009: 5th International Conference on the History of Drugs and Alcohol
The biannual conference of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society is being hosted for the first time in the UK by the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare, Glasgow, a research collaboration between the University of Strathclyde and Glasgow Caledonian University.
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A hedge fund manager makes his money, takes his cash, writes a letter — a la Jerry Maguire — and heads off to smoke some.
I was in this game for the money. The low hanging fruit, i.e. idiots whose parents paid for prep school, Yale, and then the Harvard MBA, was there for the taking. These people who were (often) truly not worthy of the education they received (or supposedly received) rose to the top of companies such as AIG, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers and all levels of our government. All of this behavior supporting the Aristocracy, only ended up making it easier for me to find people stupid enough to take the other side of my trades. God bless America.
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(via andrew sullivan)
designated driver
A ten year old boy flipped a van full of inebriated adults and a couple other children after traveling up to 90mph on a Tennessee highway.
Inside the crashed van, police said one of the passengers, 38-year-old Paula Elaine Evans, was trying to swallow as many pills as she could. A man, 43-year-old Randy Lewis, who was wearing a shirt that read “Buy This Dad a Beer,” told police he had drank at least 15 beers, the Kingsport Times-News reported.
The sheriff’s office said Lewis acknowledged drinking liquor besides the beers.
The young driver lost control Sunday of the speeding van, which rolled, coming to rest on its top. Everyone in the van was taken to a hospital with minor injuries.
The children were related to the adults, but authorities did not specify how.
A Portland Moment
Or so my Portland friend characterized it.
Last Sunday all of the old folks had spilled out of the concert hall after the symphony orchestra’s matinee, and they were walking to their cars — guardedly, as this was, after all, downtown. Street people, you know.
And my friend was walking behind a gaggle of elders when what should appear on the near horizon but the ultimate nightmare — five or six scruffy black-clad ruffians, droogy-looking guys in their twenties and early thirties.
Fear and trembling.
And just as the one party passed the other, with perfect timing, one of the ruffians said to another, “Well, I hope ya don’t think I only wanted ta eat her pussy ’cause I wanted ta score another bag offa her.”
moral pharmacology
Might drugs help us behave better towards one another?
When voiced in such a way, this proposal can sound absurd, not least since we may suspect that such mental manipulation would render us ‘artificially’ moral. Where would be the benefit of being kinder or more humane as a consequence of medication? This is an understandable (though reflexive) response. However, if we stop to consider what is actually happening in certain psychiatric settings, then we may begin to interrogate this proposal more systematically. I shall argue that within many clinical encounters there may already be a subtle form of moral assistance going on, albeit one that we do not choose to describe in these terms. I argue that we are already deploying certain medications in a way not totally dissimilar to the foregoing proposal: whenever humans knowingly use drugs as a means to improving their future conduct.
pcp, schizophrenia, and mice
PCP induces all the symptoms of schizophrenia. Scientists studied the effects of the drug on mice, then produced proteins that combated each symptom. This research was used to create new classes of drugs to treat the disease.
To understand how the recreational drug plays tricks on the mind, neuroscientists gave it to lab rats. Those researchers could counteract the strange behavior of their furry assistants by stimulating brain proteins called glutamate receptors. Big drug companies, including Eli Lilly, took note of that discovery and started searching for molecules that can push the same psychological buttons in humans.
In the Sept. 15 issue of Chemical and Engineering News, Carmen Drahl told that story, along with the tales of three other experimental medications that could turn the tide against schizophrenia. Each compound operates in a completely different way, and all of them have been tested on human volunteers.
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A gentleman who thought he injected an air bubble while shooting cocaine — and felt he needed to take drastic measures to save himself — tried to cut off his arm at a Denny’s with a butter knife.
Coming Out the Nose
I just saw a TV ad for Flomax that noted possible side effects of “runny nose and a decrease in semen.”
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Federal agents found pot in a Miami mall.
The Mall of the Americas in Miami was home to a business not usually found among the food courts, retail stores and movie theaters of similar locations: a hydroponic nursery with more than 200 marijuana plants.
Federal agents seized the plants on Friday. The grow operation was found deep in a storeroom at the mall. Authorities say the growers used the mall’s electricity to power their equipment, adding the flimsy wiring could have caused a fire.
Ninja Vigilantes Nipped
Two young men dressed as ninjas were apprehended before they were able to deliver letters to drug dealers and drug users in their neighborhood warning them to stop their impure actions.
Jesse Trojaniak, 19, and Tadieusz Tertkiewicz, 20, told police they were “modern day Ninjas” also called Shinobi Warriors on their way to deliver warning letters to known drug dealers and drug users to stop their “impure” activities.
They told police they planned to leave the letters on the front doors of these individuals they had singled out.
Their weapons, Rowan said, were to be a precaution in case they were confronted by the drug dealers.
The letters warned drug users and drug dealers that the “Shinobi will stop your cruel and sadistic intentions with justified yet, merciful force.”
Lower Stories: Marion in Mansfield
Marion partied and did a lot of drugs, starting at age eleven. He looked fifty when he was thirty. Marion would steal anything. He lost his right arm and suffered terrible burns on his torso after trying to steal copper wiring from an unoccupied house that still had its power turned on.
Stoned or straight, Marion had a very bad temper. On one occasion, he and Brian were driving to Athens to pick up fifty pounds of weed. They got lost and Marion became so angry he pulled over and made Brian get out of the car. Marion eventually found the house, did the deal, and picked up Brian on the way home.
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I do not like this new United Airlines commercial at all. I find its imagery profoundly disturbing on some visceral level.
And there’s no organ in “Rhapsody in Blue.”
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U.S. currency has the highest traces of cocaine of any currency in the world and the Bush administration had the CIA forge a letter linking Iraq and Al Qaeda.
Just Curious
Does anyone have faith when they watch a professional sporting event these days, the upcoming Olympics for instance, that anything you are seeing has been accomplished simply by old fashioned gumption and hard work?
British Tabloids: Amy Winehouse Better Than Britney
Ms. Winehouse’s acclaim could not have come at a better time for the sultry, beehived songstress, whose husband Blake Fielder-Civil received on the same day a twenty-seven month prison sentence for his June, 2006 conviction on dual charges of beating a Hoxton pub landlord and attempting to smoke a wicker chair.
While worldwide support for Ms. Winehouse has ebbed and flowed — depending upon her daily batshit-crazy antics — the devotion of her UK media fan base reflects traditional British values of loyalty, perseverance, and clinging tenaciously to lost causes.
Non-anecdote (within a non-series)
Today was to have been the day I hit the ground running, embarking with confidence on renewed schemes to amass Wealth and to promote and create Art.
Ah, the irony
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I just saw a television commercial for a prescription sleep-aid that included this phrase, spoken in that soothing voice they all use: “If you walk, eat, or drive while sleeping, contact your doctor.” Drive? Isn’t that a little like saying “If you happen to murder somebody while taking our product, contact your doctor”?
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Ely Lilly and Noxxon Pharma have figured out a way to combat migraines with strands of RNA. Normally, the strands are so delicate as to be destroyed by the body’s defenses and rendered ineffective. However, the left-handed rotation of these molecules runs in the opposite direction of most RNA, so they slip through the body undetected and attach themselves to a chemical that causes migraines.
Kids Today….
US teens are having less sex, doing fewer drugs and smoking fewer cigarettes than those who grew up in the 1990s, a study released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found. They are also more likely to use condoms when they do have sex, wear a seat belt and avoid getting into a car with a driver who’s been drinking, the national study of youth risk behavior found.
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I was just fixing to post this mess down below when I got word of Bo Diddley’s death. Thought about postponing the below-down mess, then said to myself, No.
Hey. What are friends and ‘flockers for?
I know. I know. I am the Queen of Broken Promises — but this week I do hope to post a meditation on the death of Yves Saint Laurent.
In the meantime, I leave you with this, the conclusion to Anne-Marie Shiro’s front-page piece in today’s New York Times. I wept when I read it.
“Every man needs aesthetic phantoms in order to exist,” Mr. Saint Laurent said at the [2002] announcement of his retirement. “I have known fear and the terrors of solitude. I have known those fair-weather friends we call tranquilizers and drugs. I have known the prison of depression and the confinement of hospital. But one day, I was able to come through all of that, dazzled yet sober.”
Provigil, Viagra for the Mind
Johann Hari documents his experience with Provigil, a drug originally intended to help narcoleptics, that has been found to enhance mental acuity and IQ.
It was, they said, Viagra for the brain. It was originally designed for narcoleptics in the seventies, but clinical trials had stumbled across something odd: if you give it to non-narcoleptics, they just become smarter. Their memory and concentration improves considerably, and so does their IQ.
It’s not an amphetamine or stimulant, the article explained: it doesn’t make you high, or wired. It seems to work by restricting the parts of your brain that make you sluggish or sleepy. No significant negative effects have been discovered. Now students are using it in the run-up to exams as a “smart drug” – a steroid for the mind.