America’s Concentration Threatened By Adderall Shortage
Is Adderall the crystal meth of the middle and upper classes? Well, both drugs became huge at around the same time. The Fix writes that prices are skyrocketing and panic and withdrawal... The post...
View ArticleNationwide Shortage Of Ritalin And Adderall
In November Jacob Sloan posted a story about a chronic shortage of Adderall in New York City. Now the New York Times reports that the shortage extends to Ritalin and generic versions,... The post...
View ArticlePharma Moves To Make OxyContin For Kids
For when a bandaid isn’t enough. Via The Daily: The maker of OxyContin is seeking Food and Drug Administration approval to label the controversial painkiller for use by children as young as... The post...
View ArticlePrescription Drug Overdoses Kill More People Than Heroin and Cocaine Combined
Looks like the most dangerous drug pusher in your city is the one that wears a white coat: Via the LA Times: Prescription drug overdoses now claim more lives than heroin and... The post Prescription...
View ArticleWestern Drug Companies Paid East Germany To Use Its Citizens As Guinea Pigs
At least a handful of the unwitting subjects died as a result of the pharmacological experiments. An instance of capitalist and communist collaboration during the Cold War, via the Independent:...
View ArticleStudy Suggests Psychiatric Drugs In Water Supply Are Altering Fish Behavior
Anxiety medications flushed down toilets in our pee causing heightened appetite and boldness in fish. Soon the global water supply will be a giant soup of antidepressants. Via the Los Angeles Times:......
View ArticleFormer DSM Chairman Says The Psychiatric Manual Is Attempting To Turn...
Via Wired, Allen Frances, chairman of the task force behind the previous edition of psychiatrists’ widely-used Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, is vocally critical of the new DSM, arguing that it is...
View ArticleTraces Of Prozac In Water Make Fish “Antisocial, Aggressive And Even Homicidal”
Good thing there aren’t traces of Prozac in the water we drin– oh, wait. ABC News reports: Fish swimming in water with a trace of the anti-depressant Prozac became edgy, aggressive and... The post...
View ArticleCan Weed Help You Deal with Your B*llsh*t Day Job?
Now, the following story isn’t something I’m proud of. Truth be told, reading about Graham Hancock’s Giving Up the Green Bitch ordeal was sort of eye opening for me, not in the... The post Can Weed...
View ArticleThe Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADHD)
Finally some tough questions are being asked about one of Big Pharma’s most successful manufactured “diseases,” ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). The New York Times reports that the...
View ArticleEpilepsy Drug Allows Adults To Learn Perfect Pitch And New Languages As If...
Early childhood-style learning abilities as a side effect? Via NPR: Takao Hensch, professor of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard, is studying a drug which might allow adults to learn perfect...
View ArticleHow To Make Your Own Designer Drugs
Mike Power says that designing your own narcotics online isn’t just easy — it can be legal too. How does he know? He did it himself and describes the results at Medium:... The post How To Make Your Own...
View ArticleObama Is The Face Of Viagra In Pakistan
In the future, America’s textbooks will debate his presidential performance, while around the world he is immortalized as a famed mascot for sexual stimulants. Raw Story reports: Despite unpopularity...
View ArticleBig Pharma: America’s New Mafia
Here’s an article that I think Disinfonauts will truly appreciate. Daniela Drake explores Big Pharma’s control over the American people. Daniela Drake via The Daily Beast: Pharmaceutical companies have...
View ArticleFrom suicidal shrimp to spiked tap water: where unused medications end up
Isabel Sterne via Hopes&Fears: The issues caused by the improper release of pharmaceuticals sound like something out of a sci-fi story: feminized flounder found in New York City’s Jamaica Bay, low...
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