Covid-19 Small Molecule Therapies Reviewed (▻https://blogs.sciencema...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/10569397
Covid-19 Small Molecule Therapies Reviewed | #COVID19 #drugs #treatment
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How the #blockchain Could Help Those Struggling With Addiction
▻https://hackernoon.com/how-the-blockchain-could-help-those-struggling-with-addiction-b96d2d2814Image courtesy: PexelsDrug addiction is a huge problem in the United States. From alcoholism to nicotine dependence to addiction to more serious #drugs like opioids, the health implications and human/financial costs are significant. According to Regis College, deaths related to heroin overdoses increased dramatically from 2010 to 2016. By 2016, synthetic opioids took center stage in overdose deaths, with heroin trailing. The opioid crisis has reached the point where now opiate overdoses are the number one cause of death in individuals under the age of 50.The healthcare costs of Illicit drugs alone exceed $11 billion annually, and overall costs including incarceration, crime, lost work, and productivity are $249 billion. Drug use is not just found in poor neighborhoods or among the (...)
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Knowing Your Rights in the #workplace:
▻https://hackernoon.com/knowing-your-rights-in-the-workplace-f71559775ad0?source=rss----3a8144eaMarijuana and Illegal DrugsOver 80% of employers think #marijuana contributes to poor quality job candidates, and as legalization continues on, it becomes a growing concern for business leaders everywhere. From increased operating costs, to workers compensation, to inebriated employees, a lot can go wrong in the workplace when illegal #drugs are involved.Workers who test positive for illegal drugs in their systems have on average a higher rate of both absences and terminations compared to colleagues. Business leaders who choose to drug test employees enjoy office environments with reduced insurance costs, high levels of health and safety measures, and even improved morale and communication. But not every business agrees on how effective drug testing is and some would even consider it (...)
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This is what mind-altering drugs and technology mean for free will ...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/8040772This is what mind-altering drugs and technology mean for free will | #emotions #bestof #identity #neuropharmacology #determinism #will #neuromodulation #hedonism #responsibility #cognition #drugs #influence #mind #freedom #free #technology #doping #decisionmaking
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Die Uhr tickt wieder für Potse und Drugstore
▻http://www.berliner-woche.de/schoeneberg/soziales/die-uhr-tickt-wieder-fuer-potse-und-drugstore-d147534.htmlKnapp neun Monate sind es noch hin, bis das Jahr 2018 zu Ende geht. Für die Einrichtungen „Potse“ und „Drugstore“ ist dieses Datum ein rotes Tuch.
Der Eigentümer will die Räume in der Potsdamer Straße 180 nun wirklich nicht länger das Bezirksamt vermieten. Die jugendlichen Autonomen aber sollen eine andere Bleibe bekommen.
„Die Gewobag hatt eine Anmietung der #Bülowstraße 90 für Potse und Drugstore in Aussicht gestellt“, erinnert Baustadtrat Jörn Oltmann (Grüne). „Daran halte ich fest und nehme die Gewobag beim Wort.“ Bezirksamt und städtische Wohnungsbaugesellschaft seien noch dabei, Dinge wie Lärmschutz abzuklären, erläutert Jörn Oltmann. Er will mit den „Kollektiven“ von #Potse und #Drugstore bis Mitte April das Flächenangebot besprechen. Die Rede ist von 500 Quadratmetern. Die Punks haben indes ganz andere Vorstellungen von Raumgrößen als das Bezirksamt.
Die Fraktionschefin der Linken in der Bezirksverordnetenversammlung (BVV), Elisabeth Wissel, will von Begehrlichkeiten der Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und des Bezirksamts erfahren haben. Der Senat will in der Bülowstraße laut Wissel Künstlerateliers einrichten, das Bezirksamt Wohnungen in den oberen Etagen. Wissel zweifelt, ob diese verschiedenen Nutzungen zu vereinbaren sind, und fürchtet zudem, dass durch einen offenen Torzugang zu Potse und Drugstore auch die Klientel des benachbarten Straßenstrichs und der Drogenszene angezogen würden.
Stadtrat Oltmann hat unterdessen noch einen weiteren Standort ins Spiel gebracht. Wo das sein soll, verrät er (noch) nicht. Die SPD drängt ihn, die bauaufsichtlichen Querelen um die Bülowstraße 90 auszuräumen, die laut Fraktionsvize Christoph Götz auch nach Monaten des Planens und Verhandelns noch immer bestünden.
Das Haus in der Bülowstraße betrachtet die SPD allerdings nur als Interimslösung. Ihr schwebt mittelfristig ein „Haus der Jugend“ vor: „vernünftige Räume“ für die Punker-Zentren, aber auch für weitere Jugendangebote, Proben- und Konzerträume für Bands, Künstlerateliers und anderes. „Ein entsprechendes Finanzierungsangebot einer kommunalen Gesellschaft liegt uns vor und wird der BVV noch im April vorgestellt“, verspricht Christoph Götz. Dem entgegnet Stadtrat Oltmann: Zu diesem Zweck brauche es ein bebaubares Grundstück. „Mir ist nicht bekannt, wo dem Bezirk ein solches Grundstück zur Verfügung stehen könnte.“
Hingegen ist die Zukunft der ebenfalls im Gebäude an der Potsdamer Straße untergebrachten Kinder- und Nachbarschaftseinrichtung „PallasT“ gesichert. Der Investor des Neubauvorhabens in der Goebenstraße 1-2, die UTB Projektmanagement GmbH, hat sich bereiterklärt, entsprechende Räume einzuplanen. Das Jugendamt hat über die Mietkonditionen Einigkeit erzielt. Ab 2020 sollen in der Goebenstraße rund 300 Quadratmeter im Erdgeschoss und im ersten Obergeschoss zur Verfügung stehen.
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Over a million children under the age of six are currently on psychiatric drugs in America – NaturalNews.com
▻http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-08-27-over-a-million-children-under-the-age-of-six-are-currently-o... the situation only gets worse as kids get older, with 4,130,340 kids aged 6 to 12 taking some type of psychiatric drug.
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True, it’s absolutely crazy. Doctors ought to be lined up and, well, have great violence done to them. No wonder the US has gone bonkers.
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Je viens de lire l’article et c’est tout simplement effarant ! 1 américain sur 6 prend des drogues psychiatriques (je sais pas comment traduire ce terme). Et parmi les enfants, 274.804 enfants de moins d’1 an sont sous traitement o_Ô
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If you are going to smoke #cannabis, you may want to wait until the end of your #adolescence: all other factors (socio-economic, notably) being equal, neurocognitive impact of cannabis use is inversely correlated with starting age.
▻https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/development-and-psychopathology/article/div-classtitleadolescent-cannabis-use-change-in-neurocognitive-function-and-high-school-graduation-a-longitudinal-study-from-early-adolescence-to-young-adulthooddiv/409F2E21BE7E216535404A4BF9EB1038 #drugs #drogues #addictions
“The main objective of this prospective longitudinal study was to investigate bidirectional associations between adolescent cannabis use (CU) and neurocognitive performance in a community sample of 294 young men from ages 13 to 20 years. The results showed that in early adolescence, and prior to initiation to CU, poor short-term and working memory, but high verbal IQ, were associated with earlier age of onset of CU. In turn, age of CU onset and CU frequency across adolescence were associated with (a) specific neurocognitive decline in verbal IQ and executive function tasks tapping trial and error learning and reward processing by early adulthood and (b) lower rates of high-school graduation. The association between CU onset and change in neurocognitive function, however, was found to be accounted for by CU frequency. Whereas the link between CU frequency across adolescence and change in verbal IQ was explained (mediated) by high school graduation, the link between CU frequency and tasks tapping trial and error learning were independent from high school graduation, concurrent cannabis and other substance use, adolescent alcohol use, and externalizing behaviors. Findings support prevention efforts aimed at delaying onset and reducing frequency of CU”
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"Drug use, they [the Nixon administration] thought, was the common denominator among the groups- low-income blacks, the counterculture & the antiwar movement - against whom #Nixon had unified “ignored America”. This is how ’War on Drugs’ started and the collateral damage is still ongoing today.
▻https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/44zven/how_did_the_baby_boomer_generation_go_from_open/czujwry #drogues #drugs #War_on_Drugs #USA #police -
#Book: The Dark Net - Inside the Digital Underworld - Jamie Bartlett (2014)
Nominated for the Debut Political Book of the Year, the Transmission Prize and the Orwell Prize.
Jamie Bartlett is a journalist, blogger, incl. for The Telegraph, and director of the Centre for the Analytics of Social media (CASM).
▻http://seenthis.net/messages/405569
▻http://www.jamiebartlett.orgIn this book Jamie Bartlett explains why he thinks the dark net is becoming mainstream. He shows the shift towards a consumer centric attitude (customer service), where sellers build and care about reputation, customer reviews & grading. Prices go down, quality goes up. In order to appeal some even go as far as advertising “fair trade” organic cocaïne, straight from the Guatemalan farmer instead of the drug lords.
The dark net is going mainstream. #Aphex_Twin announced his last album directly on the dark net. Even #Facebook has a dark net .onion entry in order to be accessible via TOR.
Bartlett predicts that social media going to expand its foothold in the dark net.
▻http://www.amazon.fr/Dark-Net-Jamie-Bartlett/dp/0434023175
Beyond the familiar online world that most of us inhabit—a world of Google, Facebook, and Twitter—lies a vast and often hidden network of sites, communities, and cultures where freedom is pushed to its limits, and where people can be anyone, or do anything, they want. This is the world of Bitcoin and Silk Road, of radicalism and pornography. This is the Dark Net.
In this important and revealing book, Jamie Bartlett takes us deep into the digital underworld and presents an extraordinary look at the internet we don’t know. Beginning with the rise of the internet and the conflicts and battles that defined its early years, Bartlett reports on trolls, pornographers, drug dealers, hackers, political extremists, Bitcoin programmers, and vigilantes—and puts a human face on those who have many reasons to stay anonymous.
Appearance on #TED: "How the mysterious dark net is going mainstream"
▻https://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_bartlett_how_the_mysterious_dark_net_is_going_mainstream?language=enTalk at Google:
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZzXEa9kpnEBook reviews:
In French:
▻http://www.ladn.eu/actualites/the-darknet,article,24787.html
Ce livre est un voyage auprès des âmes sombres du net, des sous-cultures créatives, et des plus destructrices. Au nom de l’innovation, de la liberté, de l’anonymat, ou encore de la perversité et de la haine, les sans-visage mènent une vie parallèle dans un monde souvent discuté, jamais vraiment exploré.
In English:
- ▻http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-dark-netinside-the-digital-underworld-by-jamie-bartlett-book-revi
– ▻https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329820.900-meeting-the-human-faces-of-the-internets-dark-places
– ▻http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/9308562/the-dark-net-by-jamie-bartlett-review
– ▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-tour-of-the-webs-other-dark-side/2015/06/25/19a5ee2e-0e11-11e5-9726-49d6fa26a8c6_story.html
– ▻http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2014/10/15/book-review-the-dark-net-inside-the-digital-underworld-by-jamie-bartlet
List of articles written by Jamie Bartlett:
▻http://www.jamiebartlett.org/articles
–On Ross Ulbricht (Silk Road) conviction & Doctor X. Salon, June 2015
– How we became obsessed with online privacy The Telegraph, June 2015
– On the Nathan Barley World of the Klout Obsessives The Telegraph, April 2015
– Bot army unleashed onto Twitter to troll online misogynists, The Telegraph, April 2015
– Islamic State and encryption: what to do? The Telegraph, March 2015
– Ethereum: ethical hackers plot to transform the internet The Spectator, March 2015
– The radical right are now the most vocal supporters of free speech. How? Little Atoms, February 2015
– Cover of Darkness: will online anonymity win out? Aeon, January 2015
– Why do we feel the need to tweet after tragedy? The Telegraph, January 2015
– Review of Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower: The Many Faces of Anonymous The Guardian, November 2014
– Review of Russell Brand’s ’Revolution’ Harry’s Place, November 2014
– Most British Jihadis are dumb thrill-seekers The Telegraph August 2014
– How the dark net drugs markets work Sunday Times, August 2014
– Battle of ideas moves online New York Times, August 2014
– Wikiwashing and paid Wikipedia editors The Telegraph, July 2014
– My interview with Tommy Robinson The Telegraph, June 2014
– Mo Ansar and the rise of the bogus social media commentator The Telegraph, May 2014
– On the Anarcho-primitivists The Telegraph, May 2014
– On the Transhumanists The Telegraph, April 2014
– Dying online: digital grieving and Twitter grief The Telegraph, April 2014
– Algorithms will soon rule the world The Telegraph, March 2014#dark_net #darknet
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#drugs #pornography #terrorism #anonymity #privacy
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“Manos Sucias” and the Colombian Movie Story
▻http://africasacountry.com/manos-sucias-and-the-colombian-movie-storyIt has become a trope in Colombian cinema to deal with stories of violence, especially of drug-related violence. In 1998, La vendedora de rosas captured perfectly the destroyed lives of.....
#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #Buenaventura #Colombia #Drugs #film #Movie_Trailers #Valle_del_Cauca #War_on_Drugs
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A Closer Look at #Mexico’s Drop in Violence
▻http://africasacountry.com/a-closer-look-at-mexicos-drop-in-violenceThe Institute for Economics and Peace recently issued its 2015 “Mexico Peace Index.” The report assesses Mexico along seven indicators—homicide, violent crime, weapons crime, incarceration, police funding, organized crime, and.....
#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #Ayotzinapa #Drugs #EPN #Felipe_Calderón #Mérida_Initiative #plan_mexico
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#Tripoli woman caught with #explosive_belt, #Drugs
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/tripoli-woman-caught-explosive-belt-drugsLebanese security forces have arrested a woman in the northern city of Tripoli after discovering an explosive belt and drugs in her home, a security source told AFP on Friday. The Lebanese women, who was not named, is in her thirties and married to a Syrian who is currently in prison in #Lebanon for firing at soldiers, the source said. She was not wearing the explosive belt at the time of her arrest overnight, the source said, adding that the owner of her apartment had also been detained. read more
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Lebanese man tries to slip brother hash at his drug trial
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/lebanese-man-tries-slip-brother-hash-his-drug-trialA Lebanese man was arrested inside a Beirut courtroom Monday after trying slip hash to his brother during his trial for drug abuse, security officials said. In a statement posted online, #Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces said a prisoner, identified only by his initials J.A., asked a judge to shake his brother’s hand at the end of his trial session. The judge granted his request, allowing the brothers to make contact where one handed an unspecified amount of hash to the other. read more
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**Why We Took Cocaine Out of Soda - James Hambl...
▻https://joindiaspora.com/p/2608195*Why We Took Cocaine Out of Soda - James Hamblin - The Atlantic* • ▻http://goo.gl/VC8an [  ](▻http://goo.gl/VC8an) #history #drugs #soda - [via Diaspora* Publisher](►http://goo.gl/tmeFB) - -
Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPIs) Clostridum Difficile-Associated Diarrhea (CDAD) Can be Associated With Stomach Acid Drugs
►http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/SafetyInformation/SafetyAlertsforHumanMedicalProducts/ucm290838.htm?source=govdelivery
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How marijuana became legal - Sep. 11, 2009
▻http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/11/magazines/fortune/medical_marijuana_legalizing.fortune/index.htmMedical marijuana is giving activists a chance to show how a legitimized pot business can work. Is the end of prohibition upon us?
