Showing posts with label drugs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drugs. Show all posts
Monday, August 4, 2025

Brain drugs, a review (performance enhancement, side effects, and addiction)

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 From the Free Press,  tasting notes on a variety of performance enhancing drugs for concentration, finally converging on what sounds like n...
Friday, July 25, 2025

Tour de France competitions: conditioning, bikes, and drugs?

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 Agence France Presse (AFP) reports on the bike race, and speculates on the historical competition between drug takers and drug testers. Pog...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

The science and politics of vaping in the U.S

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 The Washington Post has the story: FDA lets Juul market vapes in the U.S. three years after trying to ban them Federal regulators first ann...
Monday, July 21, 2025

Helping meth users quit, by paying them

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 The NYT has the story: Upended by Meth, Some Communities Are Paying Users to Quit Unlike with opioids, there is no medication to suppress c...
Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Doping in the Tour de France: new dimensions

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 There was a time when only riders had to be tested for doping, but advances in electric motors and batteries mean that bikes too can be sus...
Sunday, April 13, 2025

Ritalin and Adderall

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 The NYT has a long story this morning on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and the amphetamines prescribed to treat it, which...
Sunday, April 6, 2025

CDC’s laboratory on sexually transmitted diseases is shut by Trump administration

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 Statnews has the story: CDC’s top laboratory on sexually transmitted diseases is shut by Trump administration ‘We are blind,’ researcher sa...
Thursday, March 13, 2025

Colombia proposes coca leaf legalization

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 The Guardian has the story: Colombia urges UN to remove coca leaf from harmful substances list Foreign minister says legalisation of main i...
Monday, February 24, 2025

Mexico focuses on cross-border gun traffic after U.S. designates drug cartels as terrorists

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  Politico has the story (from the Associated Press): Mexico to reform constitution in wake of US terrorism designations The move by the Tru...
Saturday, February 8, 2025

US Ranks Highest in Global Overdose Deaths

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 Here's a sobering news article from JAMA: US Ranks Highest in Global Overdose Deaths by Samantha Anderer, JAMA. February 7, 2025. doi:...