Posts for ‘Community & culture’ topic
Hero or Heroin: A History
Heroin is an opioid drug synthesised from morphine that has existed in current form since the late nineteenth century. Its name derives from the Greek word for ‘hero’ due to the ‘heroic effects’
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Do sportspeople influence how much you drink?
There’s a widespread belief in the community that elite sportspeople are role models, including when it comes to how much we drink. However, new research doesn't back this up.
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Government SMS alcohol ed. campaign targets footy players
The Victorian Government has spent a whopping $180,000 on SMSs targeting young guys about the dangers of alcohol and looking after your mates. Would receiving one make any difference on how you behaved or how much you drank? Or is it all a waste of money?
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Smart drugs = unfair advantage?
A study of nearly 2,000 undergrads at the University of Kentucky in the U.S. found that 34 percent said they had taken drugs like Ritalin without a prescription in order to get higher grades.
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Reducing street violence
If you had to choose between increasing the price of alcohol served after midnight, raising the drinking age, or closing bars at 2 am which one would you choose?
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Healthcare for addicts?
Recently, Claire Murray, a former drug addict and dying young mother, was refused a place on the transplant waiting list after her initial liver transplant failed when she resumed her drug habit last year. Is this fair?
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To tell or not to tell
Is disclosing drug use to parents the last taboo? Have you told your parents about taking an illicit drug? If so, what was the fall out? Did you regret it, or did it take your relationship with them to a better place? If not, what’s stopping you?
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Addictive Personality Type?
Most of us have probably met someone who claims to have an ‘addictive personality’. But does such a thing really exist?
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Do sniffer dogs deter?
Sniffer dogs assist police in making more arrests, and these arrests become newsworthy for the general public, who in turn believe the police are doing ’something’ about ‘drugs’. But are they actually a detertent?
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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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