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...should we give more weight to the risks of taking a positive action—in this case, consuming a potentially useful drug??than to the risks of inaction? Why is it scarier that a drug will cause us heart trouble than that not taking a targeted cancer-killer will result in our deaths? Rationally speaking, it’s not: A death from a heart attack is not much worse than a death from colon cancer. So, if I have cancer and Gleevec makes it 20 percent less likely that I will die from that cancer...
Virtually everybody who cares about music had some kind of “gateway drug??—an artist or band that was just “mainstream” enough to be visible to our young and impressionable eyes, but ballsy enough to put out music that reformatted our synapses and led us to a treasure trove of lesser-known acts. For me, that drug was the living embodiment of the 1990s, Beck Hansen...
...HUPD officer reported the possibility of three people smoking marijuana in Mather Lot after determining the area smelt of the drug??s odor. The responding officer searched the party for marijuana. Finding none, the party was sent away...
...stop the egg fertilization and implantation necessary for pregnancy, but it has no effect on an implanted egg if a woman is already pregnant. It therefore provides an important option for women who want to avert pregnancy, especially if they do not want to choose abortion. Given that the drug??s effectiveness is directly linked to how soon after sex it is taken, making it available without a prescription is fundamental to maximizing that effectiveness. Otherwise women may end up waiting days over weekends and holidays to get a prescription, which reduces the chances the drug will work...
Until 2002, the FDA had not approved a study involving the therapeutic impact of psychedelic drugs since the 1970s. The Harvard study is the fourth such study to be approved in the past two years—the other studies examine the drug??s potential salutary effects for conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder...