Word: toxication
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...Easy to make and hugely profitable (a "point," or 0.1 g, sells for about $35 in Australia but costs only about 70? to make), ice is as toxic to societies as it is to users. Addicts are prone to reckless criminality and extreme violence as well as paranoia and convulsions. Just as worrying, says Shaun Evans, law-enforcement adviser to the Pacific Islands Forum, ice has brought other crime in its wake: "In the past, organized criminals stuck to one commodity, like heroin or LSD. Now we have polycriminals. Anything that will make money, they will do it." Evans...
Jacobs immediately started the only treatment doctors had to offer--attacking the tumors with intensive chemotherapy and radiation to try to kill the malignant growths. For seven weeks, her body was bombarded with radiation twice a day and poisoned with toxic chemotherapy drugs once a week...
Jacobs is part of an exciting vanguard--the first wave of cancer patients who are benefiting from a more targeted, molecular-based assault on the disease. Old-fashioned chemotherapy and radiation treatments were blunt weapons that killed healthy cells along with malignant ones; the treatments were far too toxic for most patients to endure. By comparison, the new-generation drugs are precision-guided missiles that zero in on tumors with a minimum of collateral damage. Used in combination with advanced techniques for classifying tumors by their molecular signatures and screening patients by their DNA, the drugs are transforming cancer from...
Easy to make and hugely profitable (a "point," or 0.1 gram, sells for about $A50 in Australia but costs only about $A1 to make), ice is as toxic to societies as it is to users. Addicts are prone to reckless criminality and extreme violence as well as paranoia and convulsions. Countries like Australia and New Zealand (where high-purity crystal meth is fast displacing less potent forms of the drug) are robust enough to absorb some of the damage. Island societies are not. Ice abuse has caused social and economic mayhem in Guam, Palau and Hawaii, says Shaun Evans...
...junk food. Arkansas raises about $40 million a year from a soft-drink tax of about 2¢ a can. Nationally, he says, "we could raise $1.5 billion from a penny-a-can tax on soft drinks. With $1.5 billion, we could create a 'nutrition Superfund' to clean up the toxic environment. You could get Beyonce Knowles away from Pepsi and Shaquille O'Neal from Burger King and have them promote healthy eating instead...