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There is a new teen drug known as “Smiles” that is freaking people out–and rightly so. It not only causes hallucinations and heart arrhythmias, but it’s also killing kids.
Sold in powder or tablet form, 2C-I–also known as “Smiles”–is a class of drugs related to amphetamines, which is typically mixed with a stabilizing substance like chocolate or candy before ingesting. More
WTF, Gen Y? Certainly everyone our age has seen enough movies and heard about enough addicted celebrities to know that things go along swimmingly for your average drug user until they start using heroin. Then you’re having sex with strangers and stealing your mom’s TV and hiding suppositories up your bum maybe getting stabbed by your ex-girlfriend (RIP Elliott). This is not a route you want to take. Yet taking it more people are, across the country and at younger ages. More
Still on the fence about whether Lance Armstrong engaged in illegal doping during his professional career? One of his former teammates, Tyler Hamilton, is not. In fact, in his new book, Hamilton rips Armstrong apart and calls him a major liar and cheater. More
As much as it pains me to say this, Lance Armstrong may have lied. He may have cheated. And he may have just been caught. Fans of this seven-time Tour de France winner are waking up today to the news that he is quitting his battle against drug charges from the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) and forgoing his titles and his legacy as a true American hero. It’s a move that makes it appear he is guilty after all. More
Over the last year or so, we’ve been hearing a lot about bath salts, which sound calming and lovely, but are in fact very dangerous drugs. The synthetic chemical compounds, which were sold completely legally in bodegas and smoke shops until recently, can lead to hallucinations, suicidal thoughts, high blood pressure, and even violence. Lawmakers have been passing bans on both the local and federal levels–but it’s proving more difficult than they initially thought. More
Before bath salts and Breaking Bad, there were plant-based hallucinogens, and they weren’t used as a cure for boredom: Many of them were (and still are) used to achieve a natural high in the pursuit of religion. More
Nurses at a North Carolina hospital noticed something strange recently: more and more newborns testing positive for marijuana during screening tests. In fact, the spike was so drastic that researchers decided to look into the matter. Turns out that certain soaps – surprisingly popular ones from big names like Aveeno and Johnson & Johnson – are the cause.
Before you toss out your baby soap – or, rather, attempt to smoke it – know that the infants were not actually high. (Sadly, no babies watching The Big Lebowski with a giant bowl of all dressed.) “It’s not marijuana in any way, shape or form,” said study researcher Catherine Hammett-Stabler of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Yes, the newborns tested positive for THC (the active ingredient in marijuana), but you can rest assured they weren’t teething on any frozen pot cookies. More
Lance Armstrong certainly has his share of haters. After 16 years of doping allegations that he was eventually cleared from, the seven-time Tour de France champion was served papers this week accusing him of doping once again–charges that you and I are wrongly paying for with our tax dollars. More
According to new numbers from the CDC, for the first time, teens smoke more pot than cigarettes. Which, to be honest, is actually kind of great because almost every study on the subject has found marijuana to be less harmful, and because marijuana use tends to be much less frequent and persistent than cigarette use. But if pot use among teens is on the rise–which it seems to be, though not by much–adults need to catch up and start giving kids practical, straightforward information about the drug. More
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A rash of violent, horrific crimes (including cannibalism) across the United States have authorities looking more closely at a widely-available, legal synthetic drug known as “bath salts.” Unfortunately, much like “spice,” the synthetic marijuana that Demi Moore was rumored to have used before she was hospitalized last year, bath salts are made up of various chemical compounds and sold under a variety of names–making them harder to criminalize than drugs like cocaine or marijuana. They’re also much, much more dangerous. More
When drive home tonight, be sure to turn your music down–otherwise, your neighbors are apt to think you are an irresponsible slut who drinks too much, has unprotected sex and likes to get stoned. At least that’s the conclusion from a new study about people who like their Lady Gaga on the loud side. More
Today, on my Alma Mater’s campus, which is in the Northwestern-most city in the continental United States, there are probably bidding each other “Happy Holidays,” because the people who go to that school are really big fans of marijuana. And while the roots of “420” as a day to burn one down are debated among weed smokers and “scholars” (read: weed smokers who also read and write papers), the fact is that, on this high holy day, people smoke a lot of pot. But what actually happens to your body when you smoke marijuana? More
The latest in a slew of dangerous club drugs, ketamine–or better known as “special K”, is making its way around the party scene with teens and young adults, but according to new studies, it’s causing a lot more health concerns than just addiction. More
One of the biggest arguments against providing equal and affordable access to women’s health care, including birth control, has consistently been that it’s just too expensive, and that it’s not the responsibility of the government. That if low-income women don’t want to have children, they shouldn’t have sex. And if they do have sex and get pregnant, there will be adoptive parents waiting with open arms. But those arguments doesn’t consider one giant, heartbreaking sector of the population who are being given the short end of the stick in about a million ways: children who are born to addicts of meth and other drugs, who are difficult to adopt, who are born with a landslide of problems, who, too often, are left in the care of unfit parents, and who are anything but inexpensive. More
