Word: counteracts
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...state's SCORxE program - designed to educate physicians with unbiased and accurate information about prescription drugs. The basic issue: Should representatives of the program bring the doctors pizza for lunch? Sarah Ball, the indefatigable pharmacist who leads SCORxE, says no. The whole point of SCORxE, after all, is to counteract Big Pharma's hard-sell drug marketing. But sometimes you have to fight fire with fire, says Dr. Robert Malcolm, a psychiatrist and adviser to SCORxE. "We are competing with people who bring food," he says...
...controversy. They represent an unusual and, at least initially, somewhat expensive new role for government. A few other states have similar programs, and the idea has taken hold in Australia and Canada. But in deeply conservative South Carolina, it is surprising to find enthusiasm for using state money to counteract private-industry marketing...
...despair. Writing for the catalog, she wonders why she and others are so interested in the convicts' stories: "Is it a sense of impotence of our effect, of our power to act in the world in a meaningful way? Are these women's stories a life affirmation to counteract the existential abyss that can sometimes fill our horizons in our time?" For Maureen Upfold, the message is simpler: Know who you are and where you came from, and don't waste a second being ashamed of what you find...
Marketing concerns aside, alcoholic energy drinks raise scientific questions: Does caffeine counteract the effects of alcohol? Or does it make drinking even more dangerous? Researchers have consistently found that caffeine won't keep you from getting drunk. In fact, from a psychological perspective, drinking caffeine with your alcohol is much riskier than drinking alcohol alone. One of the fascinating things about how humans process alcohol is that we have at least some capacity to overcome its effects by sheer force of will. Mark Fillmore, a psychologist at the University of Kentucky, has found that study volunteers who are warned that...
...representative Gregory S. Lyss ’85 said at the time that this success demonstrated the Council’s ability to “effectively counteract unsavory policies floated by the College...