Nicotine 101: The Truth About What It Is and What it Does - Filter
Mar 11, 2019 · What Nicotine Is and What it Does. Nicotine is naturally occurring chemical derived from plants of the nightshade family—which include tobacco, but also foods like tomatoes, potatoes and eggplant. Though often thought of as a bad guy, nicotine itself is actually fairly safe. As with most substances, there is a lethal dose of nicotine, but the ...
A Harm Reduction Guide to Better Booty-Bumping Kits - Filter
Jan 13, 2023 · Once you prise off the plastic cover that holds the needle, what you’re left with underneath is a much better shape for boofing than a Luer lock. Left: BD 28g .5cc syringe with plastic cover removed. Right: BD 3ml Luer lock syringe with detachable 25g needle removed. Bend off the needle (dispose safely) and then put the orange cap back on.
Many People Left to Make Their Own Stimulant Pipes and Face
Sep 27, 2023 · A cross the globe, people who use stimulants have devised creative, sometimes ingenious, smoking tools. Often used to heat up and inhale crack cocaine or methamphetamine, these homemade implements are regularly made of whatever’s available—particularly in jurisdictions where access to new pipes and stems, such as …
No Drug Education: The Rise and Fall of DARE - Filter
May 1, 2024 · P raised by politicians, parents and presidents, police officers taught DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) to fifth and sixth-grade students in around 75 percent of United States school districts at the peak of its popularity in the 1980s and ‘90s. Funded by the US government, the program was exported to dozens of other countries, too. . Altogether, DARE reached an estimated 50 million ...
FDA Authorizes NJOY Vapes in Its Biggest Positive Decision Yet
by Alex Norcia April 26, 2022. O n April 26, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized several NJOY Ace vaping products. It is the most significant positive decision to date on the premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs) that all vapor companies had to file with the agency. Decisions were expected in September 2021; as late as ...
Filter - Harm reduction journalism from a dedicated nonprofit
6 days ago · Filter sits down with Dr. Marewa Glover, to discuss New Zealand’s successful adoption of tobacco harm reduction. Participants in a vaping group at Saint Ann’s Corner of Harm Reduction, a pioneering syringe services provider in New York, describe their experiences of switching from cigarettes.
Marijuana and Working Memory: Research Contradicts Stereotypes
Sep 20, 2024 · R esearchers looking into the effects of medical marijuana use on brain processes say in a new federally funded paper, published by the American Medical Association, that cognitive attributes such as working memory, reward processing and inhibitory control were not significantly affected after a year of cannabis consumption.. The results appear to run contrary to long-held stereotypes about ...
DEA Raises ADHD Med Production Quotas. It Could Just Fix the …
Sep 10, 2024 · The DEA unveiled the update in the Federal Registrar on September 5, and the order went into effect the same day. The agency is raising its aggregate production quota (APQ) for lisdexamfetamine by around 24 percent, and raised the APQ for dextroamphetamine by around 18 percent. The latter is only for use as an active ingredient in Vyvanse or ...
New York’s Proposed Rules for Growing Cannabis in Your Home
Jan 23, 2024 · N ew York regulators have released a preview of proposed rules for home cultivation of marijuana by adults ahead of the plan’s formal consideration by the state Cannabis Control Board (CCB) at a meeting set for January 24.. The proposal, which comes more than a year after adult-use retail marijuana sales began in New York, would allow adults to grow up to three mature and three immature ...
21 to Drink? The Debate Around America’s Outlier Status - Filter
Aug 26, 2020 · The Debate Around America’s Outlier Status. by Zachary Siegel August 26, 2020. A merica’s minimum drinking age law, set nationally at 21 since 1984, appears to be written in stone. But in 2008, a glossy campaign to lower the drinking age, called the Amethyst Initiative, shook up the age-old debate about youth drinking for the first time in ...