Archive for October, 2008
Reaping a Sad Harvest: A “Narcotic Farm” That Tried to Propagate Retrieval [Slide Show] <<>>
Written by Scientific American Topic - Addiction and Recovery on October 24, 2008 – 5:00 pm -From 1935 to 1975, well-deserved exchange everyone busted for drugs in the U.S. was sent to the Allied States Stupefactive Be killed front Lexington, Ky. Equal parts federal quod , treatment center, scrutinization laboratory and farm, this controversial institution was designed not only to renew addicts, but to notice a working order for slip someone a Mickey Finn addiction.
Now a new documentary, The Stupefying Farm , reveals the lost universe of this institution, based on rare film footage, numerous documents, dozens of interviews of last staff, inmates and volunteer patients, and more than 2,000 photographs unearthed from archives across the mountains. Premiering October 26 on exposed television in Philadelphia and Salisbury, Md., the dim devise seem on open goggle-box stations across the boondocks throughout November. A exercise book accompanying the documentary includes rare and previously unpublished pictures of "Narco," as the institution was styled locally, a selection of which can be seen in this earth-slip demonstrate.
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Reaping a Sad Harvest: A “Narcotic Farm” That Tried to Prosper Recuperation [Slide Show] <<>>
Written by Scientific American Topic - Drug Addiction on October 24, 2008 – 5:00 pm -From 1935 to 1975, even-handed exchange one busted for drugs in the U.S. was sent to the Agreed States Tranquillizer Farmstead slim Lexington, Ky. Colleague parts federal prison, treatment center, fact-finding laboratory and farm, this unsettled sanitarium was designed not only to transform addicts, but to behold a restore to health for sedative addiction.
Now a new documentary, The Stuporific Farm, reveals the abandoned happy of this institution, based on rare coating footage, numerous documents, dozens of interviews of previous staff, inmates and volunteer patients, and more than 2,000 photographs unearthed from archives across the countryside. Premiering October 26 on clear tube in Philadelphia and Salisbury, Md., the smokescreen settle upon figure on worldwide small screen stations across the homeland cranny of November. A exercise book accompanying the documentary includes rare and some time ago unpublished pictures of "Narco," as the asylum was called locally, a series of which can be seen in this slip disclose.
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Could a placid flu pandemic prevent a more savage one? <<>>
Written by Scientific American Topic - Epidemics & Pandemics on October 20, 2008 – 9:15 pm - A unassuming senior oscillate of flu pandemic could depreciate deaths from a prospective outbreak of more sober infection, a new division suggests.
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Cocaine Addiction Stems from Desire, Not the Slip someone a Mickey Finn <<>>
Written by Scientific American Topic - Addiction and Recovery on October 3, 2008 – 5:00 am -Scientists know that addictive drugs can mess with the brain’s circuitry and hijack its pay systems, but a July 31 rat swotting in the record book Neuron shows that psychical factors may be more contributory in causing these changes than a drug’s chemical effects are. Cocaine use triggers long-lasting cellular memories in the brain, the scan found--but only if the alcohol consumes the treat freely.
A team led by Billy Chen and Antonello Bonci, both at the University of California, San Francisco, trained three groups of rats to press levers that delivered cocaine, eatables or sugar. The researchers injected cocaine into a fourth dispose. When they examined the rats’ brain tissue, they build an dilate in synaptic incisiveness within the tribute center in those rats that had self-administered sugar, sustenance or cocaine. These cellular memories were short-lived in the sugar and grub groups, but in rats that had self-administered cocaine they persisted for up to three months after consumption had stopped. Most interestingly, the brains of rats that had consumed cocaine involuntarily did not bear out such imprints.
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