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by richardatlarge 5y ago
From the link provided below, article by Volkow, re: cocaine and Ritalin in the brain (Eight healthy male subjects, 20 to 51 years of age): For both drugs, their fast uptake in striatum paralleled the experience of the "high." F
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by richardatlarge 5y ago
Nothing along those lines, more to the point that what makes a good drug (say Ritalin) versus a bad drug (eg cocaine) has nothing to do with pharmacology.
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by richardatlarge 5y ago
The Rx industry knows if it can make it synthetically the rules totally change, as with the dangerously potent fentanyl. The head of NIDA showed in brain studies that cocaine and Ritalin were indistinguishable. No synthetic cannabis, so it
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by richardatlarge 5y ago
The Rx system of synthetics has both sides happy: big pharma and the cartels
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Difficult question. As I document in the book, America has a long tradition of embracing synthetic ‘solutions’ to human problems, from barbiturates to Ritalin and Oxy. While at the same time demonising ‘natural’ substances. It’s a class bas
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Do nothing (2009) – on meditation and a quiet mind(tricycle.org)
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by richardatlarge 5y ago
This was already posted a few days ago. I thought HN automatically assessed submissions for duplicates?
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by richardatlarge 5y ago
Weird to be scrolling HN and see a link to my own book from years back; totally out of the blue with a different title. Thought someone had ripped off my title. Hmm... and a link I put up hours ago is first on the front page. Odd for sure
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by richardatlarge 5y ago
Some examples here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_artificial_non-nucle...
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The F.S.O. Safer could spill a million barrels of crude at any moment(newyorker.com)
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Wikipedia banned seven users after reported 'infiltration' by a Chinese group(engadget.com)
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The Moral Bankruptcy of Facebook(newyorker.com)
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Substack – making serious money – but it’s publish or perish(fortune.com)
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Psychology research has long shown that outside factors impact poor performance but are not a factor in skilled work, which may apply here
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China’s noisy ‘dancing grannies’ silenced by device that disables speakers(theguardian.com)
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I’ve discouraged friends from investing in CC as I could never see a material basis for value, present or future. I wonder what if anything exists that is similar that is not a Ponzi scheme. Ask yourself this: if you woke up in the morning
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The human tendency to over-water plants(dirtwise.substack.com)
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I was only making a joke, because my experience is a shocker, but then again, I'm referring to letters being mailed, on a stamped envelope. If you look at something like shipments from Amazon, that's a whole different story. But I
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by richardatlarge 5y ago
overseas? well that's a lot of places; USPS to NZ can be insanely slow, everybody knows that
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by richardatlarge 5y ago
wow, can't believe you have time to write all that. I agree with your examples, not sure the hostile tone, though, as if I have some big agenda. hardly. I just think that what Roderick is saying 30 years ago applies today. I'd foc
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by richardatlarge 5y ago
That's not news worthy! I'm from the US, living in NZ, and let me tell you, unless the delay is more than 6 months, the average time it takes won't change significantly. My mother still sends me b/day cards and has learn
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Truth, Conspiracy, and the Death of Reason(static.substack.com)
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Coping with the Clutter of Houseplants(dirtwise.substack.com)
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Post-Mortem: Apple Computers Is Dead, Long Live Apple Inc(static.substack.com)
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