The latest state-level data, which asks participants if they used marijuana in the past month, is particularly useful, as it covers the first year of legal recreational marijuana in Colorado and Washington. While the rate of monthly teen marijuana use did tick upward in those states, the change wasn’t statistically significant, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), which released […]
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Saturday, December 19th, 2015
GINA KOLATA, - The New York Times
Stephan: The drug problem America really has: Heroin, now largely a rural or small city White problem and, the big hitter, prescription pharmaceuticals. As with guns we can't seem to tell ourselves the truth about drugs. Marijuana. Really.
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Fatal drug overdoses reached a new high in 2014, killing more than half a million Americans, more than were killed in auto accidents, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Twice as many Americans died from drug overdoses in 2014 as in 2000.
Most of the deaths involved heroin or prescription narcotic painkillers like OxyContin. These drugs accounted for 28,647 deaths in 2014, or 61 percent of the overdose deaths. Deaths from heroin and narcotic painkillers increased 14 percent last year, to nine per 100,000 from 7.9, according to the C.D.C. (emphasis added)
Men and women of all races and ethnic groups and nearly all ages were affected by drug overdoses, but the national numbers were affected mainly by increases in deaths in 14 states: Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania […]
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Saturday, December 19th, 2015
Lorraine Chow , - EcoWatch
Stephan: I presented this story in two earlier parts, one the statement of the physicians in the area where this study took place. Here is the latest confirming the initial assessment, and now formally presented. Yet another example of a society that makes profit the social priority. Inevitably people suffer. We won't know the full effects of this contamination for years, but we do know it won't be good.
“Eighty-five percent of all samples tested positive for glyphosate and 62 percent for AMPA, which is the environmental metabolite, but in the case of cotton and sterile cotton gauze the figure was 100 percent,” Dr. Damian Marino, the study’s head researcher.
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Glyphosate, a widely popular herbicide that has been linked to cancer by the World Health Organization’s cancer research arm, was detected in 85 percent of cotton hygiene products tested in a preliminary study from researchers at the University of La Plata in Argentina.
Sixty-two percent of the samples also tested positive for AMPA (or aminomethylphosphonic acid), a derivative of glyphosate. (emphasis added)
According to Revolution News, the samples—which included gauze, swabs, wipes and feminine care […]
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