#drug — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #drug, aggregated by home.social.
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STRANGE NEWS: #Khat litters the #USA
UK INDEPENDENT: Thousands of pounds of the #Drug khat have been smuggled into the U.S. over the past month — but what exactly is it?
Khat, which is pronounced like “cot,” is a flowering evergreen shrub typically grown in parts of #Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
The shrub’s leaves can be chewed for their #Stimulant-like effect, according to the #DEA....
People using khat often store it in their cheeks, like #ChewingTobacco,
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/khat-drug-stimulant-smuggle-us-b3042330.html -
#AirIndia flight probe flags hydraulic loss, #pilot #drug test
"flight control system detected te loss of three hydraulic systems for several seconds.. #hydraulic #failure caused te autopilot to disengage & triggered a 2-second stall warning, before te systems recovered.. “Te pilot in command was found non-negative for psychoactive substance in te confirmatory test” report added. Te confirmation of use of psychoactive substance is a serious concern"
🤦♂️More #narcotics shit☠️
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/air-india-probe-flags-hydraulic-loss-pilot-drug-test -
#AirIndia flight probe flags hydraulic loss, #pilot #drug test
"flight control system detected te loss of three hydraulic systems for several seconds.. #hydraulic #failure caused te autopilot to disengage & triggered a 2-second stall warning, before te systems recovered.. “Te pilot in command was found non-negative for psychoactive substance in te confirmatory test” report added. Te confirmation of use of psychoactive substance is a serious concern"
🤦♂️More #narcotics shit☠️
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/air-india-probe-flags-hydraulic-loss-pilot-drug-test -
#AirIndia flight probe flags hydraulic loss, #pilot #drug test
"flight control system detected te loss of three hydraulic systems for several seconds.. #hydraulic #failure caused te autopilot to disengage & triggered a 2-second stall warning, before te systems recovered.. “Te pilot in command was found non-negative for psychoactive substance in te confirmatory test” report added. Te confirmation of use of psychoactive substance is a serious concern"
🤦♂️More #narcotics shit☠️
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/air-india-probe-flags-hydraulic-loss-pilot-drug-test -
#AirIndia flight probe flags hydraulic loss, #pilot #drug test
"flight control system detected te loss of three hydraulic systems for several seconds.. #hydraulic #failure caused te autopilot to disengage & triggered a 2-second stall warning, before te systems recovered.. “Te pilot in command was found non-negative for psychoactive substance in te confirmatory test” report added. Te confirmation of use of psychoactive substance is a serious concern"
🤦♂️More #narcotics shit☠️
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/air-india-probe-flags-hydraulic-loss-pilot-drug-test -
Scientists Gave #Mice #Cocaine. This Is What It Did to Their #Brains
Researchers found that a single dose left persistent changes to the #genomes of #neurons, a discovery that could have implications for treating #addiction
Suggest cocaine, #drug used by ~25M people, may rewire the genomes inside cells of the brain’s reward system, called dopaminergic neurons. Sheds light on mechanisms that drive addiction, and possibly inform treatments in humans.
https://www.404media.co/mice-cocaine-research-addiction-fens-forum/
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1094028/ Natasha never expected to become addicted to prescribed opioids while battling endometriosis #addiction #deprescribing #Drug #Health #heroin #Medication #Medicine #opioid #overdose #Pharmaceuticals #pills #prescription #rehab #treatment #UK #UnitedKingdom
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Natasha never expected to become addicted to prescribed opioids while battling endometriosis
Natasha Trajkovski was 21 when she was first prescribed opioids. After having a C-section, she was diagnosed with…
#NewsBeep #News #Medication #addiction #AU #Australia #deprescribing #Drug #Health #heroin #medicine #Opioid #overdose #Pharmaceuticals #Pills #prescription #rehab #treatment
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Natasha never expected to become addicted to prescribed opioids while battling endometriosis
Natasha Trajkovski was 21 when she was first prescribed opioids. After having a C-section, she was diagnosed with…
#NewsBeep #News #Medication #addiction #AU #Australia #deprescribing #Drug #Health #heroin #medicine #Opioid #overdose #Pharmaceuticals #Pills #prescription #rehab #treatment
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Natasha never expected to become addicted to prescribed opioids while battling endometriosis
Natasha Trajkovski was 21 when she was first prescribed opioids. After having a C-section, she was diagnosed with…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Medication #addiction #deprescribing #drug #Health #heroin #medicine #opioid #Overdose #Pharmaceuticals #Pills #prescription #rehab #Treatment
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Natasha never expected to become addicted to prescribed opioids while battling endometriosis
Natasha Trajkovski was 21 when she was first prescribed opioids. After having a C-section, she was diagnosed with…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Medication #addiction #deprescribing #drug #Health #heroin #medicine #opioid #Overdose #Pharmaceuticals #Pills #prescription #rehab #Treatment
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/589364/ Natasha never expected to become addicted to prescribed opioids while battling endometriosis #Addiction #deprescribing #Drug #Éire #Health #heroin #IE #Ireland #Medication #medicine #Opioid #Overdose #pharmaceuticals #Pills #prescription #Rehab #treatment
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How to Eat Fried Worms actor Blake Garrett’s death ruled accidental overdose
Carol told the outlet her son had been living a “good life” in the past three years and…
#NewsBeep #News #Celebrities #accidental #actor #after #AU #Australia #Blake #child #death #died #Drug #eat #Entertainment #former #Fried #Garrett #garretts #how #overdose #ruled #star #suffering #To #Worms
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How to Eat Fried Worms actor Blake Garrett’s death ruled accidental overdose
Carol told the outlet her son had been living a “good life” in the past three years and…
#NewsBeep #News #Celebrities #accidental #actor #after #AU #Australia #Blake #child #death #died #Drug #eat #Entertainment #former #Fried #Garrett #garretts #how #overdose #ruled #star #suffering #To #Worms
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Burnham urged to ditch dangerous #UK-US NHS #drug deal
#Burnham urged to scrap the UK-US trade deal on #medicines as #health organisations and #doctors’ groups warn it is dangerous and prioritises #pharmaceutical company profits over the lives of #NHS #patients
Health groups call on expected next PM to rip up agreement, which analysis suggests could lead to 229,000 excess deaths by 2036
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Development of "bubble bots," biocompatible #microrobots comprising protein-shelled gas bubbles that autonomously navigate to #tumors for targeted #drug delivery.
#Nanotechnology #Bioengineering #sflorg
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How a #racist #hatemonger #masterminded America’s #WaronDrugs
#HarryAnslinger conflated #drug use, #race, and #music to #criminalize #nonwhiteness and create a #prisonindustrialcomplexIn this edition of #Cannabis #Conversations, Dr. #EthanRusso discusses clinical #endocannabinoiddeficiency and ways to target the #endocannabinoidsystem for #therapeutic benefit with Martin A. Lee, Co-Founder of Project #CBD. https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbnZiVlJ2c3E3ZUVSWUJqS2cxeW5aODZGT0JCQXxBQ3Jtc0tsbXZPTG9iLXhJWXpTc2FpRnpNdndHVGZSX2FXNWVYMVV2dVF0eHp0STQyQ2R2UW81RzBpVjJSX0tHY24zdmVUT1QxY1BoWFNqNE9CUHVDaTVFdUxIVHl4OTRSRnlTYWo5dlFOSDdrWHUwcTZDbkhqNA&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.projectcbd.org%2Fscience%2Fcbd-clinical-endocannabinoid-deficiency-dr-ethan-russo&v=IffacdsVsG4
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#scum
#McKinsey pay $650m to settle #US #opioid case
"Prosecutors said McKinsey provided #Purdue advice to “turbocharge” #OxyContin sales. It was charged w conspiring to misbrand a #drug & obstruction of #justice.. former snr partner at McKinsey agreed to plead #guilty to #obstructionofjustice for destroying #records.. Purdue pleaded guilty in 2020 to #criminal #charges covering widespread misconduct including conspiring to #defraud US officials & pay #illegal #kickbacks"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2919450/consultants-pay-650m-to-settle-us-opioid-case -
#VicePresident #KamalaHarris says she would 'double' #DOJ #resources to #CrackDown on #drug #cartels.
Her comments were followed by #falseclaims from #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump that she wants to #legalize #fentanyl.
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Thank you, Monterey PD!
"September 13, 2024, at 5:47 P.M., #Monterey #Police Officers responded
to a report of a stolen electric #scooter. The scooter had a #GPS device attached to
it and the reporting party believed it was located in a wooded area near Mark
Thomas Drive and Josselyn Canyon Road. Monterey Officers responded to the scene and located a campsite in the wooded area. Inside the campsite, Officers found the stolen scooter, a stolen electric
#bicycle, controlled substances, #drug paraphernalia and a loaded .45 caliber
#handgun.” https://files.monterey.gov/News-Releases/2024/24_0916-Firearm-Arrest.pdf
#BikeTooter #BikeTheft #MontereyCounty #LawEnforcement #ActiveTransportation
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This article may contain useful information but it has a misleading headline and does not give the whole picture...
"This ancient disease still kills 1 million people every year. - A new generation of drugs promised salvation from hepatitis B and C. What went wrong?"
First 👉 why the word "ancient"? It is irrelevant.🙄 Many human diseases have been around a long time.
Second 👉 #hepatitisB and #hepatitisC are NOT the same disease at all. One is a double-stranded #DNA virus and the other is a single-stranded #RNA virus. Conflating them just confuses the reader.
Third 👉 hepatitis B is a #VaccinePreventableDisease. The best way to deal with it is to VACCINATE people, not treat people that did not need to get it in the first place.
https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis-b/vaccination/index.html
This information is not new. There is no vaccine for hepatitis C, so #PublicHealth measures and #drug #treatment are the only options.
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On the 1st day of #testimony in #HunterBiden’s federal #gun trial, #jurors heard his audio of his memoir, where he recounted his #drug use in graphic detail. A federal prosecutor told jurors “no one is above the #law,” & defense said the he did not “knowingly” lie when filling out forms to purchase a weapon.
Prosecutors showed the jury the laptop belonging to Hunter that has long been a target of #RightWing activists & politicians, spurred by #Trump & #RudyGiuliani’s #ConspiracyTheories.
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The world can no longer afford two things:
🔸the costs of economic inequality;
🔸and the rich.Between 2020 and 2022, the world’s most affluent 1% of people captured nearly twice as much of the new global wealth created as did the other 99% of individuals put together
And in 2019 they emitted as much #carbon #dioxide as the poorest two-thirds of humanity.
In the decade to 2022, the world’s billionaires more than doubled their wealth, to almost US$12 trillion.The evidence gathered by social epidemiologists, including us, shows that large differences in income are a powerful #social #stressor that is increasingly rendering societies dysfunctional.
For example, bigger gaps between rich and poor are accompanied by higher rates of #homicide and #imprisonment.
They also correspond to more #infant #mortality, #obesity, #drug #abuse and @COVID-19 #deaths, as well as higher rates of teenage pregnancy and lower levels of child well-being, social mobility and public trust
The #homicide rate in the United States
— the most unequal Western democracy
— is more than 11 times that in Norway (see go.nature.com/49fuujr).
#Imprisonment rates are ten times as high, and infant mortality and obesity rates twice as high.These problems don’t just hit the poorest individuals, although the poorest are most badly affected.
Even #affluent people would enjoy a better quality of life if they lived in a country with a more equal distribution of wealth, similar to a Scandinavian nation.
They might see improvements in their mental health and have a reduced chance of becoming victims of violence; their children might do better at school and be less likely to take dangerous drugs.The costs of inequality are also excruciatingly high for #governments.
For example, the Equality Trust, a charity based in London (of which we are patrons and co-founders), estimated that the United Kingdom alone could save more than £100 billion ($126 billion) per year if it reduced its inequalities to the average of those in the five countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that have the smallest income differentials
— Denmark, Finland, Belgium, Norway and the Netherlands5.
And that is considering just four areas: greater number of years lived in full health, better mental health, reduced homicide rates and lower imprisonment rates.
Many commentators have drawn attention to the environmental need to limit economic growth and instead prioritize sustainability and well-being.
Here we argue that tackling inequality is the foremost task of that transformation.
Greater @equality will reduce unhealthy and excess consumption, and will increase the #solidarity and #cohesion that are needed to make societies more adaptable in the face of climate and other emergencies. -
Experimental #antibiotic kills deadly #superbug, opens whole new class of #drugs
Relatively large molecule clogs a transport system, leading to lethal toxicity. In this case, the new #drug—dubbed #zosurabalpin—fights off the #GramNegative #bacterium carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, aka CRAB. Though it may sound obscure, it's an opportunistic, invasive #bacteria that often strikes hospitalized and critically ill patients, causing deadly #infections worldwide. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/experimental-antibiotic-reveals-entirely-new-way-to-kill-drug-resistant-bacteria/ -
Experimental #antibiotic kills deadly #superbug, opens whole new class of #drugs
Relatively large molecule clogs a transport system, leading to lethal toxicity. In this case, the new #drug—dubbed #zosurabalpin—fights off the #GramNegative #bacterium carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, aka CRAB. Though it may sound obscure, it's an opportunistic, invasive #bacteria that often strikes hospitalized and critically ill patients, causing deadly #infections worldwide. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/experimental-antibiotic-reveals-entirely-new-way-to-kill-drug-resistant-bacteria/ -
Experimental #antibiotic kills deadly #superbug, opens whole new class of #drugs
Relatively large molecule clogs a transport system, leading to lethal toxicity. In this case, the new #drug—dubbed #zosurabalpin—fights off the #GramNegative #bacterium carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, aka CRAB. Though it may sound obscure, it's an opportunistic, invasive #bacteria that often strikes hospitalized and critically ill patients, causing deadly #infections worldwide. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/experimental-antibiotic-reveals-entirely-new-way-to-kill-drug-resistant-bacteria/ -
Experimental #antibiotic kills deadly #superbug, opens whole new class of #drugs
Relatively large molecule clogs a transport system, leading to lethal toxicity. In this case, the new #drug—dubbed #zosurabalpin—fights off the #GramNegative #bacterium carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, aka CRAB. Though it may sound obscure, it's an opportunistic, invasive #bacteria that often strikes hospitalized and critically ill patients, causing deadly #infections worldwide. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/experimental-antibiotic-reveals-entirely-new-way-to-kill-drug-resistant-bacteria/ -
Experimental #antibiotic kills deadly #superbug, opens whole new class of #drugs
Relatively large molecule clogs a transport system, leading to lethal toxicity. In this case, the new #drug—dubbed #zosurabalpin—fights off the #GramNegative #bacterium carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, aka CRAB. Though it may sound obscure, it's an opportunistic, invasive #bacteria that often strikes hospitalized and critically ill patients, causing deadly #infections worldwide. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/experimental-antibiotic-reveals-entirely-new-way-to-kill-drug-resistant-bacteria/ -
‘Astonishing’ #molecular #syringe ferries proteins into human cells
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00922-4
"Technique borrowed from nature, and honed using artificial intelligence, could spur the development of better #drug-delivery systems.
Researchers have hijacked a molecular ‘syringe’ that some viruses and bacteria use to infect their hosts, and put it to work delivering potentially# therapeutic proteins into human cells grown in the laboratory." -
"Prominent members of #Mexican *#drug cartels* are using #Twitter to recruit new members, send warnings to rival #gangs, post gory images and videos, and glorify the #narco lifestyle. Some of these accounts were banned by Twitter’s safety team between 2012 and 2015, but they have been reinstated since #Elon #Musk bought the company last year."
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This is a very interesting podcast episode on how a small analytical #chemistry / #pharmacology company found a #carcinogen (N-nitrosodimethylamine) in a batches of a widely-used and approved #drug Zantac (ranitidine) for hyperacidity and peptic ulcer. The small-molecule drug is unstable on storage. Some commentary also on how FDA missed this and why broader independent chemical analysis is needed. #DrugRegulation
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-big-take/id1578096201?i=1000585612634
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I'd like to join in on some conversations so here are some #hashtags #TPD #targetedproteindegradation #PROTAC #PROTACs #degraders #chemicalbiology #biochem #cellbiology #biotech #biopharma #ligase #ubiquitin #proteasome #ligand #labhumor #chemistry #biology #proteome #proteins #drug #pharma #startup
