Drug Use: 20 Things You Might Not Know Animation

Drug use: 20 things you might not know animation – Drug use: 20 things you might not know animation Would you take a mystery white powder without knowing what it was? Would you drive after taking drugs? And if you got stopped by police carrying drugs in the US, would they be discovered? This animation explains some of the key findings from the UK and the US of the Guardian/Mixmag Global Drug Survey of over 15000 people. Where do you fit in?

Opinion Line Extra (Feb. 23)

Filed under: causes of drug addiction

With regard to selling liquor in grocery stores: It should be kept in mind that alcohol is, in terms of damage to society, the most harmful drug of all, legal or illegal. So is it in our best interest to make it more readily available …
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FDA names new head of tobacco governance group

Filed under: causes of drug addiction

The Food and Drug Administration has replaced the head of its tobacco governance group with a former associate commissioner with ties to an anti-smoking advocacy group and a pharmaceutical company. … Matt Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco …
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De Quincey's wicked book

Filed under: causes of drug addiction

“In modern society the main cause of drug addiction…is a literary tradition of romantic claptrap, started by Coleridge and De Quincey, and continued without serious interruption ever since,” he asserts. “This claptrap is the main source of popular and …
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