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Although recreational stimulant use can be addictive - about 10% to 20% of people who use amphetamines to get high (particularly if they snort, smoke or inject) will continue to use, despite negative consequences - addiction rates are much lower when drugs like Ritalin and Adderall are prescribed for ADHD. It's not clear whether the pattern of addiction under medical supervision for enhancement would follow the former or the latter - or whether it would even meet the bar for addiction. Medically speaking, without the element of harm, regular drug use - or even dependence - alone doesn't qualify as addiction...
...distinguish between all kinds of issues here," says Michael Gazzaniga, director of the Sage Center for the Study of Mind at the University of California at Santa Barbara and an author of the Nature editorial. "Habits are not addictions, necessarily." Nonetheless, because addicts tend to rationalize their use and because stimulants can engender overconfidence, using drugs as enhancement can be problematic for the minority of users who may develop a true addiction...
...Mariana Trench (the deepest point in the world), the Rose Atoll near American Samoa and several remote islands in the middle of the Pacific, including Wake Island. The monuments will be declared protected under the Antiquities Act, a 1906 law that gives the President the authority to restrict the use of public land owned by the Federal Government via executive order without consulting Congress. Initially designed to protect prehistoric Indian ruins in the American West from grave robbers, the law has been used more recently as a way to fast-track protection of areas without the lengthy Congressional process...
Both Israel’s blockade and its military actions will only serve to galvanize public support for Hamas among residents of Gaza. It is clear that Hamas is willing to both use and exploit the civilians who it purports to represent by operating in civilian areas and intimidating those who act to end violence. However, Israeli aggression that starves and kills civilians while also cutting them off from basic humanitarian necessities will only increase in a growth in anti-Israeli and pro-Hamas sentiment. In order to achieve real success in those long-term goals, Israel must devise...
...rockets indiscriminately at civilian targets. While Israel attempts to avoid civilian casualties, Hamas stores its weapons under mosques and schools and hides its operatives in hospitals. While Israel lines up trucks filled with humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza, Hamas steals medicine and food from the people for use by its militants. Indeed, Israel ought to be held to a higher standard, but the staff’s argument today ignores the plight of those who have lived under constant rocket fire for the past seven years...