OVERVIEW

Not ME ME

 

 

Drugs Making News

 


Good News


Intoxicants


Reproduction


Diet

From http://www.healingdaily.com/conditions/pharmaceutical-companies.htm
Greed


Bad News

NY Times Afghan with poppies and a missile
Drug War


Performance Enhancers


Emerging Diseases

from http://www.haileylaw.com
Drugs and the Courts

 

Familiar Faces

 

 

KAVA

How do we classify it?
As a nutrional supplement sold at GNC or
as an herbal remedy for depression or
as an intoxicant like alcohol or
as a mild hallucinogen on the order of cannabis
used socially in Fiji for 3000 years as we use coffee and tea and
for religous and spiritual purposes as many here use wine.
Should it be regulated?
by the FDA
by the DEA
by the AMA
by the FBI
by the RCC?

 
should the decision be made by doctors, anthropologists, bishops, parents,police, pharmacists, congressmen, the free-market?


How do we think of these various molecules and how should we?

 

 

 

 

generation

PROJECT D.A.R.E.: NO EFFECTS AT 10-YEAR FOLLOW-UP
D.A.R.E. Remains Popular Despite Lack of Documented Effects

"one explanation for the popularity of programs such as D.A.R.E. is that they appear to work. Adults rightly perceive that most children who go through D.A.R.E. do not engage in drug use, not realizing that the vast majority of children, even without any intervention, do not engage in drug use." American Psychological Association press release

 

It is hard to get information on illegal drugs that doesn't have an agenda attached, most sources are interested in discouraging or promoting use.

 

Marijuana is at the top because all use is considered abuse - because it is illegal - but then where is alcohol?

 

 

Another way of judging risk by the Lancet

As a result bad information has influenced policies throughout the century.

The scientific approach can help but it is necessary to appreciate its limits.

 

OtherWorries

Drug interactions between legally prescribed pharmaceuticals is the big killer.