October 15th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Prevention
NIDA Director Nora Volkow, M.D., discusses the latest findings on drug addiction and the brain, painting a far more sophisticated picture of the addiction [...]
October 6th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Prevention
Preamble: We believe in the people of Baltimore. We believe the people of Baltimore will now activate in themselves the power to redeem the core identity of the city as the best place in America to live, work and raise a family. We believe in the future of Baltimore. We, the undersigned, do hereby acknowledge [...]
October 6th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Prevention
Many of the founders of prevention organizations as well as many of the foot soldiers in the war on drugs are parents who have lost children to illegal drugs or to illicit use of pharmaceuticals substances. Steven H. Steiner, Sr., is one of those bereaved parents who has become a “General” in this terrible battle. [...]
October 6th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Prevention
The fall edition of the UPDATE publication from ONDCP’s National Media Campaign, bears the headline “Weeding Out the Truth - Campaign Initiative Focuses on Marijuana.” It states about the campaign: “The Campaign message is that marijuana puts kids at risk. It’s harmful to young bodies and imnds that are still developing. Marijuana affects the brain [...]
October 6th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Prevention
The following are excerpts from a talk given by Dr. Keith Schuchard, a parent and University of Texas Professor of English, on the topic of drug use in society, and particularly marijuana, and the need for parents in participate in the effort to keep drugs away from our children. Amazingly, Dr. Schuchard, one of the [...]
October 6th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Prevention
According to information obtained by HNN, former UK deputy drug czar Mike Trace, is masterminding a European legalisation campaign at the same time as he has been appointed Head of Demand Reduction at the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime in Vienna, UNDCP .Several documents containing letters, minutes from secret meetings, secret plans, [...]
October 6th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Prevention
Is This A Sinister Conspiracy To Get The World Hooked?
Commentary by Melanie Phillips
The sensational disclosure that the former deputy drug czar Mike Trace has assembled a secret network to pressurise governments into legalising drugs lifts a veil on an operation as sinister as it is extensive.
The implications are simply astounding. Despite his official role in [...]
October 6th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Prevention
Here are two links to pages on the website of the U.S. Department of Justice that have information important to anyone would works in drug prevention. One site looks at the damage children can suffer if exposed to the chemicals used in the production of methamphetamine, and a problem that every parent should be aware [...]
October 6th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Prevention
Today we have started the campaign, The 2003 Vienna Declaration, to support the UN Conventions on Drugs and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and by that to also counteract the pro drug advocates and their efforts to seek political support to undermine the UN conventions. If they succeed it will open [...]
October 6th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Prevention
1. Captured: Mexican Cartel Leader
One of the most wanted, feared, and violent drug traffickers in the world was captured on March 14th by law enforcement in Mexico. Osiel Cardenas-Guillen was head of a major Mexican drug trafficking organization that controlled large-scale marijuana and cocaine trafficking from Mexico to the United States.
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In the wake of a meeting of the UK government’s advisory body on drugs to discuss the harmful effects of ecstasy, Professor Keith Laws and Professor Fabrizio Schifano will reveal research findings about the drug at the university’s Health and Human Sciences Research Institute Showcase on October 21. [...]
Lester Grinspoon, MD, a psychiatrist and associate professor at Harvard, is frequently used as an “expert” in support of “medicalization of marijuana.” He has publicly attested to his personal use of illicit drugs and on several occasions has published statements in leading medical journals that cocaine is neither harmful [...]
It has been known for more than two decades that many illicit drugs inflict damage on the immune system leaving the body open to a host of opportunistic infections, not the least of which is the HIV virus. Other drugs accelerate the progression of HIV to full blown AIDS. In fact, a study [...]
Relief from pain. In some people, prescription pain relievers also cause euphoria or feelings of well being by affecting the brain regions that mediate pleasure. This is why they are abused. Other effects include drowsiness, constipation and slowed breathing. [...]
On Sunday researchers at the University of Buffalo reported that Ritalin, used on children diagnosed with ADHD, may cause long-term changes in the brain. Many clinicians regard Ritalin as short-acting but the research with gene expression in an animal model suggests that it has the potential for causing long-lasting changes [...]
The body produces many chemicals and hormones, i.e., histamines, steroids, thyroid hormone, digitalis-like substances, adrenalin, etc, all of which work by attaching to corresponding brain receptors. The key is that these natural substances produced by the body are present in nanogram amounts [...]
Among the things everybody knows is that Democrats, being the party of the little people, raise money in small contributions, whereas Republicans, being the party of fat cats, raise funds in huge basketfuls from wealthy corporate types. At least, that’s the way the world is usually portrayed by the “Today Show,” The New York Times and the Democratic Party. So it’s of more than passing interest to see [...]
A full page ad appeared Sunday, April 25, l999 in the Denver Rocky Mountain News. It had a picture of Steve Allen and an appeal to Parents. A partial quote from the ad read: Are you as disgusted as I am at the filfth, vulgarity, sex and violence TV is sending into our homes? are you fed up with steamy unmarried sex situations, filthy jokes, perversion, vulgarity, foul language, violence, killings, etc.? [...]
A study from Israel’s Ben-Gurion University looked at driving under the influence of various types of music using a virtual Volkswagen New Beetle. The music used was Kenny G, “Stranger on the Shore” at 56 bpm, Spyro Gyra’s “Cashaca,” at 112 bpm, and DJ Jurgen, pop trance mix at 132 bpm. The study’s findings are just [...]