Many People Left to Make Their Own Stimulant Pipes and Face
WEBSep 27, 2023 · A cross the globe, people who use stimulants have devised creative, sometimes ingenious, smoking tools. Often used to heat up and inhale crack cocaine or methamphetamine, these homemade implements are regularly made of whatever’s available—particularly in jurisdictions where access to new pipes and stems, such as through safer smoking kit programs, is banned.
CDC Recommends Drug-Checking Amid Historic Overdose Deaths …
WEBDec 24, 2020 · Already on the rise throughout 2019 and into the beginning of 2020, fatal overdoses appeared to accelerate, totaling 81,000 deaths as the COVID-19 crisis isolated people and disrupted drug economies. “The increase in overdose deaths is concerning.” said Dr. Deb Houry, director of CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, in ...
21 to Drink? The Debate Around America’s Outlier Status - Filter
WEBAug 26, 2020 · The Debate Around America’s Outlier Status. by Zachary Siegel August 26, 2020. A merica’s minimum drinking age law, set nationally at 21 since 1984, appears to be written in stone. But in 2008, a glossy campaign to lower the drinking age, called the Amethyst Initiative, shook up the age-old debate about youth drinking for the first time in ...
Our Pathways to the Legal Regulation of All Drugs - Filter
WEBJul 14, 2022 · A mid a century-long drug war in the United States, things are getting worse.. Currently, over 100,000 annual deaths are attributed to “overdose,” most involving more than one drug. That’s a 16-fold increase since I was born, in 1980, and the highest number in US history.Yet the people with the loudest voices promote the same ineffective responses: Lock sellers up and hire more police ...
Deprogramming From AA—When a Fellowship Resembles a Cult
WEBMay 2, 2019 · Rachel Bernstein. Katherine met Bernstein through Monica Richardson, the founder of an international Facebook group called “Deprogramming From AA or Any 12 Step Group.”. It has over 1,000 members, all of whom are at some point in the process of leaving a 12-step group. Richardson has led a crusade …
The “Date-Rape Drug” Narrative Has Been Weaponized Against
WEBSep 22, 2020 · A year later, a study aimed to fill that void, examining the prevalence of drugs in alleged sexual assault cases between May 1996 and June 1998—a time-frame that aligns with the boom in the GHB date-rape narrative. Alcohol was by far the most common drug, present in 40 percent of the 1,179 cases, followed by cannabis (18 percent ...
Two Years After Oakland’s Psychedelic Decrim, What’s Been ... - Filter
WEBby Alexander Lekhtman August 2, 2021. O ver two years ago, in June 2019, the city of Oakland, California became the first in the US to decriminalize plant-based entheogens including psilocybin, iboga, ayahuasca and mescaline cacti. Since then, the reform seems to be having its intended effect of preventing arrests for these substances.
Nicotine 101: The Truth About What It Is and What it Does - Filter
WEBMar 11, 2019 · What Nicotine Is and What it Does. Nicotine is naturally occurring chemical derived from plants of the nightshade family—which include tobacco, but also foods like tomatoes, potatoes and eggplant. Though often thought of as a bad guy, nicotine itself is actually fairly safe. As with most substances, there is a lethal dose of nicotine, but the ...
Heroin Pipes: How the “Hammer” Was Built for Harm Reduction
WEBNov 25, 2019 · The resulting design. PHRA’s heroin pipe can work for powdered “China white” but was designed for Washington State’s “black tar” heroin, which has a viscous consistency that’s just about impossible to snort. The pipe consists of a longer tube that feeds into a shorter tube connected at a right angle.
Learning the Blues: West Coast Grapples With Shifting Drug …
WEBDec 16, 2021 · Learning the Blues: West Coast Grapples With Shifting Drug Supply. “ Forever, the prevalence of what kinds of drugs people did was completely boring,” Alex Kral, an epidemiologist from the nonprofit health research institute RTI international, told Filter. He has been studying the drug market in San Francisco and elsewhere for 28 years.