Day: January 6, 2014

Drrrruuuugggs III Meth

Now there’s a nightmare.
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Drrrruuuugs II, Let's talk Maryjuanna

I decided to destroy some myths about marijuana after reading a very nice piece by Peter Hitchens.
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Dddddruuuugs? Let's Talk Opiates

There are many mythologies about drugs of abuse.
I am allied in spirit and attitude with a great writer on the problems of recreational drugs, Anthony Daniels, who writes as Theodore Dalrymple.
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Grant Money Run Amok

I can’t make this up.
Some nice and well meaning emergency physician/academic gets 2.2 million in grant money.
To study the benefits of, believe it or not
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Global Warming is Irritating the Polar Vortex

The narrative is being warmed up (pardon the pun).
Warming is irritating the polar vortex and causing cold to spin down from Canada.
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More on Brain Death and Persistent Vegetative State/Coma

Follow up on the short discussion of the Jahi case and the longer one on Terri Schiavo.
Guidance for Neurologists on how to determine brain death
http://surgery.med.miami.edu/laora/clinical-operations/brain-death-diagnosis
Discussion from the National Inst of Neurological Disorders on characteristics of Coma and Persistent Vegetative State (PVS).
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/coma/coma.htm

Info on the Lightbulb Legislation

Received from someone who knows.
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