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...View of Diabetes Before Dr. Frederick Banting and his colleagues at the University of Toronto isolated insulin in the 1920s, doctors tried to treat diabetes with high doses of salicylates, a group of aspirin-like compounds. (They were desperate and also tried morphine and heroin.) Sure enough, the salicylate approach reduced sugar levels, but at a high price: side effects included a constant ringing in the ears, headaches and dizziness. Today's treatments for diabetes are much safer and generally work by replacing insulin, boosting its production or helping the body make more efficient use of the hormone. But researchers...
...cultivation of poppies, from which heroin is derived. But he admitted last week that "poppy production and the production of heroin are the major problem of Afghanistan." And terrorist coffers are rich with the profits: the U.N. says groups like the Taliban pocketed hundreds of millions of dollars last year from a record 3,600 tons of opium, with farmers - taking home up to ten times a policeman's pay - expecting further growth this year. While the U.N. advocates deploying coalition troops to smash drug labs thriving in the north, Karzai is pleading for $300 million in international...
...cell, where he was serving 15 life sentences, one for each person he was convicted of murdering. An investigation later revealed he had killed as many as 260 patients over 23 years, most of them women living alone whom he visited for checkups and injected with fatal doses of heroin...
...year-old girl until assured by an Iranian that it would not offend local mores for a male doctor to tend to her. Iranian doctors taught the Americans to weed out addicts who showed up looking for morphine; before the quake, Bam authorities had been battling a thriving heroin trade. A local physician, put out by the presence of the Americans, was calmed by an official's promise that he would benefit from their $8 million of equipment when they left. In fact, the transfer is still...
...from punitive to forgiving. Drug use is incredibly nuanced and confusing--even alcohol required two constitutional amendments and a fight between "Tastes great" and "Less filling" that has never been adequately settled. Limbaugh used to portray all drugs as equal, whether they were painkillers or marijuana or heroin--which is not only stupid but also a really poor business plan if you're considering becoming a dealer. I had never tried marijuana until a friend left me some lovely brownies a few years ago, and not once since that experience have I been nervous about spiraling into harder drugs, unless...