Study: Cut nicotine in cigarettes

The FDA should regulate tobacco and develop a plan to reduce nicotine levels in cigarettes, the Institute of Medicine urged Thursday. Its report calls on Congress and the president to give FDA the authority to enforce standards for nicotine reduction and to regulate companies' claims that their products reduce exposure or risk.



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Stop-smoking drug approved for free on NHS

A prescription-only pill to help people quit smoking has received draft approval for use on the NHS.Varenicline (Champix) is the first non-nicotine drug developed specifically to help smokers give up, and was licensed in the UK in 2006



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NIDA Identifies Genes That Might Help Some People Abstain From Smoking

The breakthrough research was conducted by Dr. George Uhl at NIDA's Intramural Research Program and a team led by Dr. Jed Rose at the Center for Nicotine and Smoking Cessation Research at Duke University Medical Center.



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Super-Ways >> 15 Ways to Stop Smoking.

Though easy to grab the habit, giving up smoking is no easy task. Amongst all addiction, nicotine addiction is the hardest to quit, infact it is harder to quit than cocaine and alcohol. Most people inspite of having the knowledge that smoking is harmful for health still continue to smoke; it is because they are addicted to nicotine.



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ROCKER OZZY OSBOURNE TOOK ANY DRUG

Ozzy Osbourne says nicotine is the hardest drug he ever had to give up.The rocker, who has battled alcoholism and illegal substance addictions throughout his life, admits he continued to smoke while wearing nicotine patches, even though it made him ill.



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How Does Stop Smoking Shot Treatment Help Quit Smoking

Several medicines combine to make a stop smoking shot. The Stop smoking shot restricts the movement of the nicotine receptors within your brain. Thus, being a smoker you no longer enjoy the effects of nicotine.



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Health, Diet, Nutrition News & Skin Care Information - Nicotine

Nicotine is a colorless, poisonous alkaloid, derived from the tobacco plant and used as an insecticide.Nicotine is highly addictive. Nicotine provides an almost immediate "kick" due to a discharge of epinephrine from the adrenal cortex. This results in a release of excess glucose which is followed by depression and fatigue, leading smokers to see



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Get Drunk WITHOUT drinking!

Its called AWOL - or Alchohol WithOut Liquid.... sounds cool, wonder how trashed you can get?



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Online refraction calculater

Calculate refaction angles through various substances like water, alchohol, glass or diamonds! Cool utility for physics geeks like myself.



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Is video game addiction anything like alchoholism?

A blogger takes a self-quiz for alchol abuse to see if there are any similarities between his addiction to computer strategy games and alchohlism.



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Alchohol cloud found in space

Astronomers say they have spotted a cloud of alcohol in space that measures 463 billion kilometres across, a finding that could shed light on how giant stars are formed from primordial gas (or get us all very, very drunk).



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What The Kids Don't Know About the Racist, Alchoholic Behind Von Dutch...

Even those who admire Von Dutch don’t call him a nice guy. No, they use words like bitter and racist and violent. They describe someone who was jaded young and spent much of his life hiding from the world. His name was a reflection of that, the very symbol of his obstinacy, anger and distrust of the world.



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Sink Ya Drink

Get wasted in this fast paced alchohol drinking game.



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Ty Pennington Issues Statement After DUI Arrest

“Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” host Ty Pennington has issued the following statement after being arrested early Saturday morning in Los Angeles on the suspicion of driving under the influence of alchohol and drugs more...



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Adults Arrested for Giving Alchohol to Minors When Pics Posted to MySpace

After a kegger in his honor, police said a 17-year-old birthday boy posted the photos a partygoer took on MySpace.com.Tipped to the public evidence, Myrtle Creek police looked into the popular youth Internet site and identified everybody in the photos. Three adults were arrested on suspicion of furnishing alcohol to minors and citing nine minors



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Slysoft Inc. Acquires Game Jackal Pro (clone of Alchohol 120%)

Slysofth, popular for its world famous DVD security bypassing software, AnyDVD, has recently acquired from Jackal Consulting, an Australian based company, Game Jackal Pro. Check it out, sounds like a good, cheap alternative for Alcohol 120%!



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GENIUS: anti-drunk driving ad uses color changing ink and coasters at bars

Bloody Coasters (for Mumbai Traffic Police) were printed using a special invisible red ink, wich spreads only when moistened. When a customer places his frosted, moist glass of alchohol on it, the red ink starts spreading; and the normal face starts bleeding. the message: drunk driving kills



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Alchohol and tobacco have incorrect rating

In the current ABC system alcohol would be rated a class A drug and tobacco class B.



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Britney collapsed because of drugs?

It wasn't the partying or alchohol that knocked her out - one our after midnight, according to National Enquirer. They say Spears took an overdoze of ecstasy and Cocaine.



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Exclusive Lindsay's little sister Ali Lohan PICS from Teen Vogue

Will she become another Britney or Alchoholic and annoying LINDSAY



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Lindsey Lohan still wants to drink alchohol

Yes, she’s been attending some meetings, and it’s going to be a slow process,” says her publicist, Leslie Sloane. “This is a positive. Let’s hope that the press doesn’t turn it into a negative.”Sloane says she’s asking the media not to intrude on the meetings or follow Lohan, 20, to and from the gatherings.



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Caught Driving Drunk? Eat Your Underwear to Absorb the Alchohol

Creative ideas ACTUALLY attempted to quickly lower your (BAC) blood alchohol content...



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WASHINGTON TIMES WILL CALL FOR SPEAKER HASTERT’S RESIGNATION

Foley is nothing less than a Pedophile, and there is no excuse for his behavior Alchohol Abuse or not. I also have no idea what Hastert knew or when he knew it. If Hastert did know about Foley’s actions and he attempted to bury the story then I would agree with the times… The question is What did Hastert know?



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iBreath

The iBreath connects to any iPod and detects “your blood alchohol content level, accurate to within 0.01 BAC.”



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Ruby on Rails Rake Tutorial (aka. How Rake turned me into an alchoholic)

In this article we're going to discover why Rake was created, and how it can help our Rails applications. By the end you should be able to write your own tasks, and learn how to get ***** drunk using rake in no less then three steps.



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How to fight hay fever. Alternative Methods

As someone that suffers from this its always nice to have an alternative to drugs. Now just have to see if it works.



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Premature Death Syndrome in Professional Wrestling Claims 18 in 10 Years

Over the last ten years, there has been at least eighteen deaths in professional wrestling, all of these happening to superstars under the age of 50. The wrestlers have been the victims of accidents, suicide, and alcohol abuse, but the majority of deaths in professional wrestling are from heart failure due to previous or current drug use.



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Potentially Incompatible Goals at F.D.A.

Managers are now largely judged on how quickly their employees make a decision on new drug applications, safety officials say. Questions about the safety of already-marketed drugs are increasingly seen as sand in the gears, they say.



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A new drug may clear the haze of chemo - Los Angeles Times

Modafinil, used to treat narcolepsy, enhances concentration for cancer patients.



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Drug-sniffing dog suspended for "harrassing female passengers".

My friend's dog harasses me every time I see it but I don't care, because it's A DOG!



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Airport's canine drug agents fired for peeing on luggage

Two of Thailand's top canine agents in the country's war against drugs have been fired for "unbecoming conduct" that included urinating on luggage and rubbing up against female airport passengers.



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From Blockbuster to Bust: Why the FDA Allows Miscues

. Cases such as Vioxx and Avandia have become all too common. But why does this occur? How are potentially harmful drugs allowed to make it to market and be sold to millions of people for years before being found unsafe and removed from the market.



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The Yin and Yang of the FDA

Speed and safety, notes the New York Times' Gardiner Harris, are the yin and yang of drug regulation: the FDA must strike a balance between people's desire for immediate access to drugs, and for the drugs to be proven safe.



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Switching off the cancer gene

A gene implicated in the development of cancer cells can be switched on using drugs, report researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. The finding could lead to a new class of targeted cancer therapies with potential to benefit many different cancer types.



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Chinese hospitals used fake drips

The food and drug administration in the north-eastern state of Jilin found 18 hospitals and more than 30 pharmacies were sold or were selling false batches of the albumin.



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FDA Scientist Reprimanded For Warning Public

Reports are out that a deputy director of the Division of Drug Risk Evaluation, part of the Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology (formerly the Office of Drug Safety) was reprimanded for recommending that the popular diabetes drug Avandia receive a “black Box” warning after taking her staffs advice.Rosemary Johann-Liang was on the verge of le



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Blohan is a Suicidal, Lesbian, Drug Using Attacker. Allegedly."

We've all heard some wild and crazy story about Lindsay Lohan, but this report from News of the Worldhas got to be the most sensational of all. The British tabloid interviewed Lee Weaver, former bodyguard to the troubled star, and to hear him tell it, Lindsay Lohan has a total death wish, and is completely uncontrollable.



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Chinese hospitals used fake drips

Chinese investigators say nearly 60 hospitals and pharmacies in north-eastern China have been using fake blood protein in patients' drips. Experts suggest that the fake product could be life-threatening for those already in a serious condition. The scandal is the latest to expose weaknesses in China's regulation of food and drug standards.



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FDA Reform: The Prescription Drug User Fee Act

The FDA's incompetence in securing America from the harmful risks of badly evaluated drugs has cost countless deaths. Change is needed...



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Bayer pharmaceutical spreading AIDS via drugs on purpose

There are documents that were showed to the American Government, proving that Bayer knew, without any doubt, that their product was contaminated with the AIDS virus! Here is the MSNBC news broadcast that broke the story about this cover up where Bayer admits to distributing medication laced with AIDS in America to Americans until they got busted.



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"Cheese", the new drug taking Dallas and surrounding areas by storm.

Cheese or Cheeze is a recreational drug that surfaced in the United States in 2005. Cheap, and easy to produce, Cheese may very well be the new Meth. It is formed by combining heroin with crushed tablets of certain over-the-counter common cold medication, such as Tylenol PM.



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UK troops receiving 'trigger happy' drug

BRITISH troops are being prescribed with a controversial drug which has been blamed for making US pilots "trigger-happy" and causing friendly fire deaths.The Ministry of Defence has admitted that it prescribes the amphetamine dexedrine, which is capable of keeping users awake for as long as 60 hours.



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Lindsay Lohan’s Former Bodyguard Revealed The Star’s Private Life

The former bodyguard of Lindsay Lohan has made her secret life of sex, drugs and alcohol public since the 20-year-old checked herself into Promises.



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Aussie on Bali drugs charges

AN Australian DJ who regularly performs at Gold Coast nightclubs has been arrested in Bali on drugs charges.



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Ask a Cokehead

What's so great about Coke anyway ? Times reporter Melena Ryzik has spent the last five months interviewing young New Yorkers about how, in spite of the fact that drugs are widely known to be bad, "cocaine is a prominent part of a night out."



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Crackweed, the new and exciting drug combo

It will probably also destroy your mind, so please be careful.



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When it comes to food and drugs, following the money is good advice

When it comes to food and drugs, following the money is good advice. North American manufacturers, looking to save money, have increasingly turned to China for cheap ingredients. The consequences appeared earlier this year when more than 4,000 cats and dogs died as a result of tainted pet food. If you follow the money in China, however...



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NJ - Bill would require pharmacies to fill orders no matter beliefs

A pharmacy would be required to fill prescriptions for any drug it stocks. The bill, approved 56-18 by the Assembly, establishes a pharmacy's duty to fill lawful prescriptions without undue delay and without consideration for a pharmacist's moral, philosophical or religious beliefs.



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Common Blood Pressure Drug Could One Day Slow Or Halt Parkinson%27s

The drug isradipine%2C commonly used to treat blood pressure and stroke%2C could one day help to slow down or even stop the progression of Parkinson%27s disease%2C according to new research by US scientists.%0D%0A%0D%0AThe study is published in the early online edition of the journal %3Ci%3ENature%3C%2Fi%3E.%3C



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