Archive for February 2010
Poor sleep to blame for drug use
If you believe latest research, you can forget everything you've heard about how drug use is the result of complex mix social and biological drives. It seems that the amount of sleep you get can imcrease the likelihood of you using drugs.
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Wealth and Drugs
No doubt the link between poverty and drug use has had its fair share of media attention. After all, when you think of a junkie, do you think of a polished looking kid in designer jeans or a minority youth from a background of extreme poverty?
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Nature v nurture?
No doubt many of us have come across a friend who claims to have an 'addictive' personality type or thought of addiction as the result of the pharmacology of drugs acting on the individual. But how many of us truly believe it?
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Man admits spiking wife's coffee
BBC.co.uk report that a UK man has been jailed for two years for spiking his estranged wife's coffee with 3g of amphetamine and cannabis.
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Debating the merits of DMT
Listen to this round table discussion that covers the pros and cons of DMT(tryptamines), the dangers and the unknowns from a street level and a divine perspective. Invaluable listening for those psychonauts about to ingress, or those who are curious.
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Toys used to hide drugs
Children's toys were used to try to smuggle more 50kg of drugs, worth more than $9 million, into Australia. Tonka trucks, pink teddy bears and even nappies were used to hide the drugs.
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Caffeine and alcohol: 'dangerous'?
These days, it seems that energy drinks and alcohol are the new vodka and tonic. No big deal right? Well, a new study suggests otherwise.
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Will drug sites be blocked?
The Australian government plans to introduce country-wide internet censorship in the next 12 months. What will that mean for websites and forums where drugs are discussed? Is this policy a threat to harm reduction?
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Addiction Predilection?
Why is it that some people get addicted to drugs, and others never do? Is it the sort of thing you can predict – about another person, about yourself – before you even start?
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Rudd wants drinking age lifted to 21
Appearing on ABC1's Q&A program last night, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd told a group of 200 young Australians that he'd personally like to see the legal drinking age lifted to 21 in order to reduce binge drinking and P-Plate deaths.
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