TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
A report released recently by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) shows one in every 20 Americans misused prescription painkillers last year. This discovery is particularly relevant because the drug war, combined with changes to U.S. health care law, may have helped exacerbate the so-called opioid epidemic. In 2015, an estimated 119 Read More…
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) just announced they will ban the popular pain relief supplement kratom by placing it on the Schedule 1 list, which denotes “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse” – the most restrictive classification under the federal Controlled Substances Act. This move to ban yet another Read More…
One of the most shameful episodes in the history of psychology is the use of frontal lobotomies. Despite very scant evidence of their effectiveness – and in spite of much evidence of serious negative after-effects – lobotomies were standard procedure through the US and Europe for around two decades, until the mid-1950s. In the US, Read More…
No matter how much doctors push the treatment, chemotherapy might not be the best option in the fight against cancer, as a new study shows up to 50 percent of patients are killed by the drugs — not the disease, itself. Researchers from Public Health England and Cancer Research UK performed a groundbreaking study examining for the Read More…
Fresh on the heels of the CDC labeling kratom as an emerging “public health threat,” the notoriously fascistic U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has filed a notice of intent to not only list it as a controlled substance, but the DEA is planning to add it to the most restrictive classification possible. Mitragyna speciosa, aka kratom, Read More…
Cancer has become one of mankind’s greatest challenges. Despite years of research and virtually bottomless funding, the disease remains a mystery, the cure elusive. If there is any cause that is sure to generate profit, and stir people’s emotions, cancer is it. The quest for a cure has become a multi-billion dollar industry, a pursuit Read More…