psychoactive drugs
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Latest Defence of Facebook Doesn’t Make Any Sense
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a new statement defending his company late Tuesday in the wake of U.S. Senate testimony from whistleblower Frances Haugen. And while comparing Facebook in the 2020s to Big Tobacco in the 1990s isn’t new, it really is striking to see Zuck make the same arguments that companies like Philip Morris…
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Study: Alcohol Linked to More Than 700,000 Cancer Cases Worldwide Every Year
New research this week is the latest to find that alcohol use is a major cancer risk, one that people aren’t necessarily too aware of. The study estimated that over 700,000 cases of cancer worldwide can be attributed to alcohol annually.
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Space Force Wages Its First War (on Cocaine)
Whoever dumped some 30 kilograms of cocaine that washed up on a beach near Cape Canaveral, Florida, unintentionally gave the Space Force its first taste of the War on Drugs.
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A Man Overdosed on a Homeopathic Drug, Which Is Supposed to Have Nothing in It
From the desk of medical irony comes this recent case study from Germany. Doctors there say a patient of theirs ended up sick in the emergency room after being poisoned by a homeopathic remedy — quack treatments that by definition are supposed to contain virtually no active ingredient. Thankfully, the man recovered without any lasting…