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Here's to Good Health (but No Toast)
More controversially, he has also promoted a 14-day “detox” program featuring his supplements and smoothies. But Mr. Mullen, who has rheumatoid … “It was pretty rough in those days, lots of heroin and crack,” he said. In three years there, he became …
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Alternative option for addicts in planning
MARION — A former pastor hopes to create a downtown detox center to provide a different approach for the community to fight the ongoing drug war. Doug Ford, the longtime … He said it would supplement the forms of aid already available. “Bring …
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Challenging the drug war lies
"Knowing that someone uses a drug, even regularly, does not tell us that he or she is 'addicted,'" Hart writes. "It doesn't even mean that the person has a drug problem." But what's really refreshing about this book is that Hart shows how drug use and …
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Boxer keeps on fighting the good fight
Ironically, the hardest hitting chapter in this book has to do with tragedies Chuvalo faced outside the ring. Chuvalo describes these events as “a personal holocaust.” His son Jesse, a heroin addict, committed suicide in 1985. Chuvalo traces Jesse's …
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New York Publishes Book On How-To On Heroin – New York Health Department publishes How-To on Heroin Guidebook.

Question by viggo.blixen: Why is the film “Trainspotting” called Trainspotting?
I’m on the way to buy the book, having seen and memorized the film years ago. Having just ridden the AmTrak (American passenger rail) for 16 hours thru the midwest and grown up around freight rail, I am curious.

Internet research reveals that the book (& film) is named for a scene that didn’t make it into the film. Can anybody summarize this scene? Why on Earth is a film about heroin addiction named Trainspotting without the pivotal scene depicting the obsessive hobby? How do my Junk-riddled buddies relate to trains, other than taking a train to Tommy’s idealistic Scotland before he tries the junk?

Perhaps I should just read the book, no?    Read more...

The US spent billion to fight the drug war in Afghanistan, and guess what …
The United States is withdrawing troops from Afghanistan having lost its battle against the country's narcotics industry, marking one of the starkest failures of the 2009 strategy the Obama administration pursued in an effort to turn around the war …
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As US withdraws from Afghanistan, poppy trade it spent billions fighting still …
U.S. officials say they have established a competent, well-trained Afghan counternarcotics police agency and a special drug court to discourage the trade. But the long-term sustainability of those efforts is uncertain as the West reassesses spending …
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Program note – Ionisation
For his percussion ensemble work Ionisation (1931), Edgard Varèse uses this scientific principle both as the work's title and as an extra-musical idea that impacts its form. For much of the piece, the composer explores instruments of indefinite pitch …
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Question by robhowell27: Something to think about! So why not legalize it and make money, and stop terisom.?
By Smokey, 5-05-06 (marijuana myths courtesy of twotonetony)

MARIJUANA, MYTHS ABOUT MARIJUANA, AND OTHER NON-“STONER” REASONS THAT MARIJUANA SHOULD BE LEGALIZED.

First of all, this is information on marijuana from a purely factual stand point, so even if you are against marijuana PLEASE READ THIS. there are too many ignorant people against marijuana…you dont have to smoke it to be for it’s legalization.

MARIJUANA MYTHS

1. Marijuana causes brain damage    Read more...

The Gross Reason Berlin's Dogs Are Overdosing on Human Drugs
For the average dog, the term "cold turkey" describes a delicious snack, not a case of sudden drug withdrawal. Except, perhaps, in Berlin. The German capital is currently reeling from news of a … Dogs have been found with heart palpitations …
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Maryland's Synthetic Marijuana Ban Takes Effect
“It's worse than heroin withdrawal. The dreams are so realistic that when you wake up you don't know how to discern what's reality and what's not.” Eichler had to go to the hospital for his synthetic marijuana use. A heart monitor was tucked inside his …
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DEA: Law and Science Unto Itself
“If BNDD (Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, predecessor to DEA) files are any indication, many. . . marijuana users are getting 'high' on parsely, alfalfa, or some other weed.” Common plants which have been confused with marijuana include …
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