Off Their Feed: Game of Thrones Drama, Roid Abuse, The War on Drugs This week on The Point's "Off Their Feed," the panel goes over some of the week's best (and worst!) tweets from notable tweeters. This week we've got Larry K... By: townsquare … Continue reading →

Amritsar: Teacher steers students away from a life of drugs Punjab, the land of plenty. The state today is faced with an enemy within - drugs. And it's most lethal attack has been on one of the holiest cities for the ... By: ibnlive … Continue reading →

Drugs does a body good... https://www.youtube.com/msdessertjunkie https://www.youtube.com/junkienet. By: sunsetlover … Continue reading →

Standing Committee - Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Amd) Bill, 2011 The Parliamentary Standing Committee on finance has recommended modifications to the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) (Amendment) Bill, 2011... By: Rajya Sabha TV … Continue reading →

Adverse Reactions to Psychiatric Drugs: Yolande Lucire MBBS, Peter Breggin MD Yolande Lucire, PhD MBBS: Dr Lucire is a forensic psychiatrist. Her expertise encompasses epidemic hysteria, epidemic somatization and moral panics. She give... By: Ginger Breggin … Continue reading →

Two states in the USWashington and Coloradolegalized recreational marijuana use this year. More than half of Americans now support legalizing marijuana, up 20 percentage points in the last decade. But the concept of legalizing drugs is not as radical and modern as it may seem. For thousands of years, most drugs, including marijuana, morphine, and cocaine, were produced, sold and consumed legally. It was not until the early 20th century, under an initiative led by American missionaries and temperance groups, that the concept of a global prohibition of drugs took hold. Even then, many countries, particularly drug-producing ones, were reluctant to embrace prohibition. Opponents predicted that criminalizing drug use would never eliminate demand and the cost of interdiction would fall disproportionately on them. They were right. The US and Europe should rethink their drug policy, not only marijuana but all other drugs too. Prohibition of drugs has not been effective at eradicating their use. As the global drug trade continues to thrive, developing countries pay most of the price. The cost to them not only includes law enforcement, but the violence and corruption associated with the drug trade, which undermines economic development and keeps millions in poverty. A better use … Continue reading →

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Drugs that are often used in emergencies and typically kept in ambulances may deteriorate beyond a safe level in a few weeks or months, according to a new study from Belgium. That's because - unlike drugs stored in the controlled settings of hospitals - drugs stored in ambulances are exposed to temperature variations, sunlight and motion, said Dr. Mark Merlin, who studied drug deterioration but wasn't involved in the new research. "It's a very different concept and we're learning that expiration dates are very different (in ambulances)," said Merlin, an emergency physician at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in New Jersey. He added that because few studies have looked at the subject, emergency physicians and technicians tend to throw out drugs before their printed expiration date. "We don't know when to throw them out and as a result we're usually very conservative," he said. For the new study, Sabrina De Winter and her colleagues at the University Hospitals Leuven compared commonly used injectable drugs stored for one year at room temperature, in the back of an emergency response vehicle and in a refrigerator - as they're supposed to be. The drugs included muscle relaxers cisatracurium … Continue reading →