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Another trial in Australia followed 30 cocaine injectors, 16 of whom were treated with dexamphetamine and 14 with a placebo. Cocaine-positive urine tests in the dexamphetamine group fell from 94% to 56%, while the placebo group showed no change after 14 weeks. A similar study of modafinil at the University of Pennsylvania in 2005 found reduced cocaine use in addicts...
...develops a tolerance to them, even very high doses of the drugs are not toxic.) The consequences of high-dose use are important, since addicts in treatment often try at least once to use illegal drugs "on top" of their maintenance drug. So far, however, studies of dexamphetamine and similar drugs have not revealed major safety problems. Although a few patients have had psychotic episodes from using "on top," those particular patients turned out to have previously suffered psychosis. "There's pretty consistent evidence that the side effects are generally nominal," says John Grabowski, a professor of psychiatry...
These investments, which for years produced stellar returns for Harvard and other elite universities with similar portfolios, have posed problems in the current financial climate, which University of Chicago finance Professor Steven N. Kaplan said has led to a “capital squeeze” for endowments like Harvard?...
...similar sort of re-framing that led the American fiasco in Vietnam to occur. The hardliners in the foreign policy apparatus in the late years of the 50s refused to see the fight in Vietnam as one of local politics, denied the overriding issues of nationalism and dressed it up as a Communist bogeyman for the American public and the world. Communism turned out not to be a monolith, just as Islam isn’t, but a force shaped by local history and regional circumstances. The results of this were disastrous. This sort of logic, that simplifies, reduces...
...prospects of powerful firms or the government using collective intelligence are truly shocking. Governments across the world could use sense-driven networks—cellular phone towers, for example—to track down dissidents and protesters. American health insurance providers, already notorious for their predatory practices, could use similar tactics to preemptively deny coverage to those who they suspect are at risk for a certain disease. And Comcast, one of the largest telecommunications providers in the country, has already come under fire for limiting the bandwidth of consumers who supposedly paid for an “unlimited?...