El Chapo caught on camera by Sean Penn as biopic mystery unfolds. HSBC has form: remember Mexico and laundered drug money. The man who exposed the lie of the war on drugs. Pablo Escobar was “the first to understand that it’s not the world of cocaine that must orbit around the markets, but the markets that must rotate around cocaine”.
Of course, Escobar didn’t put it that way: this heretical truth was posited by Roberto Saviano in his latest book Zero Zero Zero, the most important of the year and the most cogent ever written on how narco-traffic works. Here is a book that speaks what must be told at the end of another year of drug war spreading further and deeper, that tells what you will not learn from Narcos, Breaking Bad or the countless official reports. Director Matthew Heineman: ‘Suddenly I was alone with my camera in the middle of this shootout’ One must hope that audiences appreciate the extraordinary scene with which the documentary Cartel Land opens: deep within a forest in Mexico, a group of men cook crystal meth, and discuss their metier.
“We know what harm we do with all the drugs,” muses one of them, masked. “But what are we going to do? We come from poverty. If we were doing well, we’d be like you, travelling the world or doing good jobs” – he addresses the director directly, but it could be many of us, almost accusing our good fortune, in contrast to his lot. The great entactogen - empathogen debate. The Great Entactogen - Empathogen Debate David NicholsRichard YensenRalph MetznerWilliam Shakespeare Dr.
David E. Nichols Profession, Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacology Purdue University. ‘Stoner sloth’ anti-drug campaign gets reality check as medical experts walk away. A leading drug research centre has distanced itself from the NSW government’s bizarre “stoner sloth” campaign, which attempts to warn teenagers against the dangers of sustained marijuana use by depicting them as disturbingly oversized versions of the South American mammal.
In a pyrrhic victory for the NSW government, the stoner sloth campaign has gone viral but the anti-drug message appears to have lost out to the internet’s dual love of mocking failed ad campaigns, and sloths. The campaign was initially linked to the National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre (NCPI), which has responded with a statement saying their involvement was limited to providing an initial basic analysis of other anti-cannabis campaigns, and some general recommendations.
Heroin trade continues to claim lives as UK drug gangs compete for power. New Study Is The First Ever To Map The Human Brain On LSD. Psychedelics have been subject to an array of stigma and hysteria over the course of recent decades; the War on Drugs has sought to destroy the reputation of many compounds and plants, classifying them as dangerous and severely restricting their scientific research.
Self-experimentation has been made illegal and one-sided science, along with an enormous propaganda effort, have portrayed them as mania-inducing, ambition-annihilating tools of escapism. The 21st century is witnessing somewhat of a reformation in this area. Just Another Night in a Shooting Gallery Philippe Bourgois. The Road to Recovery. Dictionary of street drug. Neurotransmitters and Drugs Chart. NHS urged to respond to growing health dangers of chemsex. One of Britain’s leading medical experts on “chemsex” – the use of illegal drugs during sex – has called for a broader NHS response to the phenomenon after a survey found high levels of risky behaviour among HIV-positive users in London.
David Stuart, who runs a chemsex support service at Europe’s busiest sexual health clinic, 56 Dean Street in London, said the response to the trend should not be “skewed by stigma, shame and moral judgments” as in the Aids epidemic in the 1980s. Three chemsex drug users in London, who spoke to the Guardian on condition of anonymity, described how they had been drawn into heavy drug use at group sex parties known as “chillouts”.
Two of the men became addicted to the craze, spending days at a time at chillouts, and have been receiving treatment since early this year. Chemsex is mainly participated in by gay men using drugs such as GHB, GBL and mephedrone, enabling them to have sex sessions with numerous partners lasting hours or even days. Paul Krugman warns: ‘Darkness’ of economic malaise and early death is spreading over the middle class. Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman said in a New York Times editorial on Monday that the economic collapse of the American middle class may be to blame for the spike in suicides and deaths by addiction and alcoholism among white Americans.
Krugman was referring to data from a recent paper by economists Angus Deaton and Anne Case which found that premature deaths have surged among one U.S. demographic, whites ages 45 to 54 with a high school diploma or less. A significant portion of these deaths were attributable to alcohol and drug dependency or suicide. Cocaine, Ket, Pills and More: This Is What Your Eyes Look Like When You Take Different Drugs. Eyes are the window to your soul – that doesn't stop being true no matter how many illegal substances you consume on a night out.
But can your eyes really tell when you're actually on something? From pupils the size of a needlepoint to huge black holes with barely visible irises, we snapped our way through Berlin's nightclubs to see if people's eyeballs could tell us the night's story. H. America's poorest white town: abandoned by coal, swallowed by drugs. Karen Jennings patted her heavily made up face, put on a sardonic smile and said she thought she looked good after all she’d been through.
Superman ‘ecstasy’ pill deaths are result of ‘illogical and punitive drugs policy’ The deaths of four men who had taken pills they thought were ecstasy are the result of the government’s “illogical and punitive drug policy”, a former drugs tsar has said.
Dr David Nutt, who advised the last government on drug policy until 2009, said the policy had targeted the production and sale of MDMA, only to see it substituted by a more toxic substance. LSE IDEAS DRUGS REPORT FINAL WEB01. Marc Lewis: the neuroscientist who believes addiction is not a disease. For decades the medical profession has largely treated addiction as as a chronic brain disease. The US government’s National Institute on Drug Abuse characterises addicts as compulsive drug seekers and users who continue taking drugs despite harmful and unwanted consequences. “It is considered a brain disease,” the institute says, “because drugs change the brain; they change its structure and how it works.” Dr Marc Lewis, a developmental neuroscientist – perhaps most famous for detailing his own years of drug addiction and abuse in Memoirs of an Addicted Brain – strongly refutes this conventional disease model of addiction.
The Trip Treatment. On an April Monday in 2010, Patrick Mettes, a fifty-four-year-old television news director being treated for a cancer of the bile ducts, read an article on the front page of the Times that would change his death. His diagnosis had come three years earlier, shortly after his wife, Lisa, noticed that the whites of his eyes had turned yellow. By 2010, the cancer had spread to Patrick’s lungs and he was buckling under the weight of a debilitating chemotherapy regimen and the growing fear that he might not survive. The article, headlined “Hallucinogens Have Doctors Tuning in Again,” mentioned clinical trials at several universities, including N.Y.U., in which psilocybin—the active ingredient in so-called magic mushrooms—was being administered to cancer patients in an effort to relieve their anxiety and “existential distress.” Meeting the Drug-Addicted Male Escorts Pressured to Take Mephedrone and GHB at Chemsex Parties. BBC slammed for How Drugs Work show which 'glamorises' illegal substances.
By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 11:56 GMT, 28 January 2011. Thoughts and Reflections From Using GHB (GBL) For ~7 Months on a Daily Basis - Hardcore Self-Improvement. The Narco Chronicles. A Brief History of Microdosing. Cure for anxiety and insomnia – take LSD for breakfast say scientists. DEA Approves Ecstasy For Anxiety, MDMA Trials Begin In California - Decoded Magazine. GHB: The First Authentic Antidepressant (Claude Rifat) - Hardcore Self-Improvement. The great British booze problem: how a few glasses a day has led to an epidemic for the NHS – video. Problem drinkers account for most of alcohol industry's sales, figures reveal.
The alcohol industry makes most of its money – an estimated £23.7bn in sales in England alone – from people whose drinking is destroying or risking their health, say experts who accuse the industry of irresponsible pricing and marketing. While the industry points to the fact that most people in the country are moderate drinkers, 60% of alcohol sales are either to those who are risking their health, or those – labelled harmful drinkers – who are doing themselves potentially lethal damage, figures seen by the Guardian show. Work by Prof Nick Sheron of Southampton University, co-founder of the Alcohol Health Alliance of more than 40 concerned organisations and colleagues, has established that people who drink dangerously are the industry’s best customers. Britain on the booze: how a night of alcohol impacts the NHS - as it happened. Irish Es are smiling – ecstasy and other drugs temporarily legal in Ireland. Decriminalisation of class A drugs on the agenda in Ireland.
What Britain could learn from Portugal's drugs policy. Ireland set to decriminalise cannabis, cocaine and heroin. Personal use of weed, cocaine and heroin is set to be decriminalised in Ireland over the next year, according to reports in The Irish Times. National Drugs Safety minister Aodhán Ó Ríordáin announced the radical new plans at an LSE talk yesterday, along with his intentions to open the country's first ever supervised injection centres. Legal highs blanket ban will outlaw poppers and laughing gas.