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Showing posts with label drugs. Show all posts
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10/19/13
FLOWERS CAN KILL
A drug that eliminates free will and can wipe the memory of its victims is currently being dealt on the streets of Colombia.
The drug is called scopolamine, but is colloquially known as ‘The Devil’s Breath,' and is derived from a particular type of tree common to South America.
Stories surrounding the drug are the stuff of urban legends, with some telling horror stories of how people were raped, forced to empty their bank accounts, and even coerced into giving up an organ.
Deadly drug: Scopolamine is made from the Borrachero tree, which blooms with deceptively beautiful white and yellow flowers
VICE’s Ryan Duffy travelled to the country to find out more about the powerful drug. In two segments, he revealed the shocking culture of another Colombian drug world, interviewing those who deal the drug and those who have fallen victim to it.
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4/8/13
THE HOUSE I LIVE IN
Directed by Eugene Jarecki,
Executive Produced by
John Legend,
Brad Pitt,
Danny Glover,
Russell Simmons
Filmed in more than twenty states, THE HOUSE I LIVE IN tells the stories of individuals at all levels of America's War on Drugs. From the dealer to the narcotics officer, the inmate to the federal judge, the film offers a penetrating look inside America's criminal justice system, revealing the profound human rights implications of U.S. drug policy. Winner of the 2012 Sundance Grand Jury Prize.
3/19/13
AMYL NITRITE
advertisement for RUSH poppers featuring CAPTAIN RUSH~
drummer magazine~ circa 1975~
Amyl nitrite is a potent vasodilator (i.e., it expands blood vessels, resulting in lowering of the blood pressure). Alkyl nitrites function as a source of nitric oxide, which signals for relaxation of the involuntary muscles. Physical effects include decrease in blood pressure, headache, flushing of the face, increased heart rate, dizziness, and relaxation of involuntary muscles, especially theblood vessel walls and the anal sphincter. There are no withdrawal symptoms. Overdose symptoms include nausea, emesis (vomiting),hypotension, hypoventilation, dyspnea (shortness of breath), and syncope (fainting). The effects set in very quickly, typically within a few seconds and disappear soon after (within minutes).
It is also used as an inhalant drug that induces a brief euphoric state, and when combined with other intoxicant stimulant drugs such as cocaine or ecstasy (see MDMA), the euphoric state intensifies and is prolonged. Once some stimulative drugs wear off, a common side effect is a period of depression or anxiety, colloquially called a "come down"; amyl nitrite is sometimes used to combat these negative after-effects. This effect, combined with its dissociative effects, have led to its use as a recreational drug (see poppers).
Poppers is a slang term given to the chemical class called alkyl nitrites that are inhaled for recreational purposes, especially as an aphrodisiac. Today poppers are mainly sold in cap vials but historically received the names "poppers", "boppers", and "snappers" from the sound of snapping off the neck of glass ampoules to release their vapors.
10/15/12
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7/26/11
JUST SAY NO, HAS BECOME YES, YES, YES
An unprecedented 1 in 66 Americans is a diagnosed psychotic
By Robert Johnson
Outselling even common drugs to treat high blood pressure and acid reflux, antipsychotic medications are the single top-selling prescription drug in the United States.
Once reserved for hard-core, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest type of mental illnesses to treat hallucinations, delusions or major thought disorders; today, the drugs are handed out to unruly kids and absent minded elderly.
A recent story in Al Jazeera by James Ridgeway of Mother Jones illuminates the efforts by major pharmaceutical companies to get doctors prescribing medicines like Zyprexa, Seroquel, and Abilify to patients for whom the drugs were never intended.
Focusing on psychiatrists because they rely on subjective diagnoses, the drug reps have been so successful that they've changed the criteria for mental illness and disability payments. Ridgeway quotes former New England Journal of Medicine editor Marcia Angell.
"[T]he tally of those who are so disabled by mental disorders that they qualify for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) increased nearly two and a half times between 1987 and 2007 - from one in 184 Americans to one in seventy-six. For children, the rise is even more startling - a thirty-five-fold increase in the same two decades. Mental illness is now the leading cause of disability in children." Under the tutelage of Big Pharma, we are "simply expanding the criteria for mental illness so that nearly everyone has one." Fugh-Berman agrees: In the age of aggressive drug marketing, she says, "Psychiatric diagnoses have expanded to include many perfectly normal people."
Particularly vulnerable because medication decisions are often out of their hands the old and the young suffer most.
For kids: the number diagnosed with bi-polar disorder rose 40-fold between 1994 and 2003 and one in five comes away from a psychiatrist with a prescription for an antipsychotic.
Dosing the elderly at nursing homes has become so common that sales reps have coined the term "five at five" -- meaning 5 milligrams of Zyprexa at 5 pm to sedate difficult residents.
For all their nefarious wrangling, in 2009, Lily agreed to pay $1.4 billion, including a $515 million criminal fine. The largest ever in a health care case and the largest criminal fine on any corporation in the U.S.
That year, Lilly sold $1.8 billion of Zyprexa alone.
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The 15 highest grossing prescription drugs in the U.S.
($9 billion of the total for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, plus $3.2 billion for depression and anxiety.)
15. Oxycontin.
Made by Purdue Pharma. Used as a painkiller for moderate to severe pain .
Gross: $3.0 billion
One-year growth: 6.9%
Five-year growth: 287.5%
14. Avastin
Made by Genentech. Used by cancer patients as part of "tumor-starving" therapy.
Gross: $3.1 billion
One-year growth: 3.3%
Five-year growth: 82.4%
13. Cymbalta
Made by Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY). Used to treat depression and anxiety disorders.
Gross: $3.2 billion
One-year growth: 14.2%
Five-year growth: 166.7%
12. Enbrel
Made by Amgen (AMGN) and Pfizer (PFE). Used to treat inflammatory diseases including arthritis.
Gross: $3.3 billion
One-year growth: 0%
Five-year growth: 6.5%
11. Remicade
Made by Centocor. Used to treat Crohn's Disease and rheumatoid arthritis.
Gross: $3.3 billion
One-year growth: 3.1%
Five-year growth: 32%
10. Epogen
Made by Amgen (AMGN). Used by patients with chronic kidney failure to treat anemia.
Gross: $3.3 billion
One-year growth: 3.1%
Five-year growth: 3.1%
9. Actos
Made by Takeda. Used to treat Type 2 diabetes.
Gross: $3.5 billion
One-year growth: 2.9%
Five-year growth: 34.6%
8. Crestor
Made by AstraZeneca (AZN). Used to reduce cholesterol.
Gross: $3.8 billion
One-year growth: 26.7%
Five-year growth: 192.3%
7. Singulair
Made by Merck. Used to treat asthma.
Gross: $4.1 billion
One-year growth: 10.8%
Five-year growth: 36.7%
6. Seroquel
Made by AstraZeneca (AZN). Used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder .
Gross: $4.4 billion
One-year growth: 4.8%
Five-year growth: 46.7%
5. Abilify
Made by Otsuka and Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY). Used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Gross: $4.6 billion
One-year growth: 15%
Five-year growth: 142.1%
4. Advair Diskus
Made by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). Used to treat asthma symptoms.
Gross: $4.7 billion
One-year growth: 0%
Five-year growth: 20.5%
3. Plavix
Made by Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY) and Sanofi Pharmaceuticals. Used to prevent blood clots by patients at risk for strokes and heart attacks.
Gross: $6.1 billion
One-year growth: 8.9%
Five-year growth: 110.3%
2. Nexium
Made by AstraZeneca (AZN). Used by patients with acid reflux to treat heart burn.
Gross: $6.3 billion
One-year growth: 0%
Five-year growth: 23.5%
1. Lipitor
Made by Pfizer (PFE). Used to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke.
Gross: $7.2 billion
One-year growth: -5.3%
Five-year growth: -16%
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resposted by kate mcconn- lnglewood/antebellum corespondent
8/21/09
THE WORLD'S FIRST COCAINE BAR
antebellum may be the world's first fetish art gallery, but bolivia has outdone us.. announcing ROUTE 36 in la paz, bolivia. the world's first cocaine bar. according to writer Jonathan Franklin- the new trend of 'cocaine tourism' can be put down to a combination of Bolivia's notoriously corrupt public officials, the chaotic "anything goes" attitude of La Paz, and the national example of President Evo Morales, himself a coca grower. (Coca is the leaf, and cocaine is the highly manufactured and refined powder) READ MORE-
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