If you were, say, a German surgeon performing an operation to remove illicit drugs from the body cavity of a ‘body packer’, what would be your options for disposing of the drugs – without breaking the law or transgressing ethical boundaries? Just such a conundrum is described in a 2004 article for the German medical […]
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Theory ‘o Everything: Rats, Coffee, Drugs, Booze, Decisions
A new study involves rats, coffee, amphetamines, booze, decision-making, and lots more. It answers a good percentage of the questions you might care to ask about psychology or anything else. The study is: “Sensitivity to Cognitive Effort Mediates Psychostimulant Effects on a Novel Rodent Cost/Benefit Decision-Making Task,” Paul J Cocker, Jay G Hosking, James Benoit […]
Atmospheric Cocaine: The Italian Experience
“Are You Inhaling Secondhand Coke?” asks Elizabeth Norton’s report in ScienceNow, going on to say; We’ve all seen those color-coded air-quality charts on the news—warnings about smog, ozone, and pollen. Now it may be time to add a new alert to the list: illegal drugs. Researchers have found that regions with greater cocaine and marijuana […]
Toss expired medicines into a test tube?
There may, conceivably, maybe be a use for medicines that have become too old to use, suggests the celebrated inventor Prakash Vaithyanathan, a high school teacher in Chennai, India. On the Enexions web site he sketches his idea for an experiment: DISPOSAL OF EXPIRED MEDICINES Just out of curiosity I tried experimenting with just one […]