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You probably have never heard of 2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodoamphetamine) (DOI), let alone heard that it is commonly abused. Yet the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) wants to ban the synthetic psychedelic, a promising research chemical that has figured in more than 900 published studies, by placing it in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, a category supposedly reserved for drugs with a high abuse potential and no recognized medical applications—drugs so dangerous that they cannot be used safely, even under a doctor's supervision. Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), which defeated ...
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Europe is currently facing a shortage of organs, leading to increasingly long waiting lists for transplants. As well as improving the quality of life of their recipients, transplants also help save money for public health systems. For example, a kidney transplant recipient costs Spain €30,000 less per year than a patient on dialysis, according to the Spanish National Transplant Organisation. The Hungarian presidency of the Council of the EU has now introduced a new proposal aimed at increasing "organ availability, enhancing efficiency and accessibility in transplant systems, and improving qual...
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Doctors should reduce “unnecessary” prescriptions and blood tests in a bid to curb their profession’s contribution to the climate crisis. That’s according to new guidance released by the UK’s Royal College of Physicians (RCP) this week. Its ‘Green Physician Toolkit’ suggests a range of actions that doctors can take, including talking to patients about how to protect themselves from the deadly impacts of rising emissions. “It can of course be challenging to prioritise sustainability at a time when there is very high demand for clinical care, but we have to keep in mind that reducing climate cha...
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This week's featured article is "Child Welfare Systems Are Trapping Innocent Families" by Emma Camp. This audio was generated using AI trained on the voice of Katherine Mangu-Ward. Music credits: "Deep in Thought" by CTRL and "Sunsettling" by Man with Roses The post <I>The Best of Reason</I>: Child Welfare Systems Are Trapping Innocent Families appeared first on Reason.com.
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Talc was classified as “probably carcinogenic” to humans by the cancer agency of the World Health Organization (WHO). A working group of 29 scientists from 13 countries met at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon, France, and published their findings in The Lancet Oncology00384-X/abstract) last week. The classification is the “second highest level of certainty that a substance can cause cancer”. Talc’s previous classification was as a “possible carcinogen.” Talc was classified “on the basis of a combination of limited evidence for cancer in humans (for ovarian cancer)...
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It wasn't long before Jennifer Williams noticed there was something unusual about the two young girls she was fostering. Three-year-old Arya Hernandez was bright, outgoing, and without any of the behavioral issues Williams had become accustomed to over more than a decade as a foster parent in Georgia. But 4-month-old Emma seemed sickly. The baby's soft spot was too big for her age and in the wrong part of her head, and the whites of her eyes were discolored. She was also bowlegged and held her limbs in an unusual, awkward way. Williams was only taking care of the girls for the weekend while th...
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Taxing broad-spectrum antibiotics that contribute most to drug resistance could reduce prescriptions in favour of other medicines, UK-based researchers say. The main contributor to antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which is when bacteria no longer respond to medicine, is overuse and misuse of antibiotics. Antibiotics are categorised as narrow-spectrum (i.e. targeting specific bacteria) or broad-spectrum (those used more broadly). While narrow-spectrum drugs can help slow AMR, they require knowledge of the bacteria causing an infection, whereas broad-spectrum antibiotics don’t. Researchers looked...
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After OxyContin manufacturer Purdue Pharma filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2019, members of the Sackler family, which controlled the company, arranged a resolution that included personal protection from civil liability for contributing to opioid-related deaths. That shield was part of a mass settlement that promised myriad litigants a total of $6 billion. The Supreme Court narrowly rejected that deal today. "The bankruptcy code does not authorize a release and injunction that, as part of a plan of reorganization under Chapter 11, effectively seeks to discharge claims against a nondebtor wit...
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A popular weight-loss drug may help people who struggle with a serious sleep disorder, according to a new study. Tirzepatide, the medication in the weight-loss drug Zepbound and the diabetes treatment Mounjaro, appeared to reduce the severity of sleep apnoea, according to a new study. The findings were published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, and included 469 people with obesity and obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). OSA is a disorder where people stop breathing while they are asleep because the tissue in the throat relaxes and collapses during sleep, fully or partially blockin...
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Many countries have been experiencing increasing medicine shortages, with the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbating the problem. In the US, active drug shortages hit an all-time high of 323 in this year’s first quarter, according to the University of Utah Drug Information Service, up around 86 per cent from a 10-year low of 174 last reached in 2017. A statement last week from the Pharmaceutical Group of the European Union (PGEU), meanwhile, highlighted doctors' and pharmacists' concerns about a rise in drug shortages in Europe. The group's annual survey also found that drug shortages affected all Eur...
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