Is the future of drugs safe and non-addictive? | Science | The Guardian
A “Brave New World” of vaccines and genetic sequencing.
Is the future of drugs safe and non-addictive? | Science | The Guardian.
We drank for……
A member of Alcoholics Anonymous once sent columnist Ann Landers the following:
We drank for happiness and became unhappy.
We drank for joy and became miserable.
We drank for sociability and became argumentative.
We drank for sophistication and became obnoxious.
We drank for friendship and made enemies.
We drank for sleep and awakened without rest.
We drank for strength and felt weak.
We drank “medicinally” and acquired health problems.
We drank for relaxation and got the shakes.
We drank for bravery and became afraid.
We drank for confidence and became doubtful.
We drank to make conversation easier and slurred our speech.
We drank to feel heavenly and ended up feeling like hell.
We drank to forget and were forever haunted.
We drank for freedom and became slaves.
We drank to erase problems and saw them multiply.
We drank to cope with life and invited death.
After reading the letter and posting it in her column, Ann Landers made this comment:
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
Abandoned Portsmouth – The Swan
One many closed down pubs in Pubs in Portsmouth. Smoking ban, recession and cheap supermarket booze taking its toll.
Thought I’d restart the Abandoned Portsmouth Theme.
Drug-drivers to face jail time under new law | Society | The Guardian
Drug-drivers to face jail time under new law | Society | The Guardian.
About time too, interesting to see how they distinguish between the effects of different drugs and degrees of intoxication.
Spice Island
Testing the new lens for night shots.
Spice Island Pub in Old Portsmouth at night.
HDR Fusion
BBC News – Can a hallucinogen from Africa cure addiction?
Interesting Alternative Treatment for addiction, more damming though is the comment on the Failings of Western Medicine in developing treatments for Addiction.
The reliance on Profit making Pharmaceutical companies for new treatments leaves many areas of research massively underfunded.
A pill won’t cure the mental and spiritual aspects of addiction but there must be better ways to help with the short term physical withdrawals in the 21st Century.
The problem with addiction research
- Measuring success scientifically with addiction is problematic – addicts can be clean for months or even years before relapsing
- Most existing addiction treatments were created as a by-product of other research. Methadone was initially developed as a pain killer for German soldiers during WWII
- In the last 20 years, only one new drug has been developed for opiate addiction
- Buprenorphine, sold as Suboxone, is a substitute drug much like methadone but it can be subscribed by a doctor and taken at home rather than in a clinic
- “The treatment of addiction is woefully poor in the western world,” says Ben Sessa. “After about 150 years of study into alcohol addiction, abstinence rates after a year are no better than about 25%.”
- For opiates, abstinence rates after a year are about 10%
via BBC News – Can a hallucinogen from Africa cure addiction?.
St Peters Bishops Waltham
St Peter’s Bishops Waltham
Trying out new sigma 10-20mm.
Forgot there was no IS so really needed a tripod in low-light.
2 Shot HDR.