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Smart kids more likely to take drugs in adulthood

Tue, Nov 15, 2011

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A new study which capitalized on an extensive ongoing survey, shows that children with high IQs, especially girls, are more likely to indulge in illicit drug use in their 30′s than people with lower IQs. Dr. James White of Cardiff University and his team of researchers used data gathered from the British Cohort Study, an ongoing [...]

Cocaine found at Kennedy Space Center… again

Tue, Mar 15, 2011

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NASA’s Inspector General’s Office says an investigation is under way after a white powdery substance found at the Kennedy Space Center tested positive for cocaine. I wanted to insert some puns somewhere in this post about astronauts, cocaine, high and outer space, but by the time I finished researching for this post I remembered that [...]

Two hours worth of gaming is like snorting a line of coke…therapist says

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

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It’s ignorance like this that never sees to baffle me. Steve Pop is an overnight notorious psychotherapist who, like most of today’s center stage and tomorrow’s props, became famous after stating live on BBC Radio that “spending two hours on a game station is equivalent to taking a line of cocaine in the high it produces [...]

I take thee…Cocaine

Thu, Feb 10, 2011

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Of all drugs, cocaine creates the greatest psychological dependence, because it stimulates key pleasure centers within the brain and causes extremely heightened euphoria. Drugs like this mess with the brain’s circuitry and hijack the reward system. Cocaine cravings are said to be so strong that just the memory of the feelings associated with use of [...]

9 reasons why there wasn’t stress in the good old days

Mon, Jul 6, 2009

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Nowadays, people seem to be more and more stressed, even average people that at least apparently don’t take big gambles. Researchers have put a lot of time and money into the study of this problem, and came up with a whole lot of theories, but really, don’t let those fool you. Here’s the real deal, [...]

In Madrid and Barcelona cocaine is in the air

Sun, May 17, 2009

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It’s quite impossible not to be aware of the fact that someone is smoking marijuana somewhere around you because of its particular smell. However, who would have suspected that the air people breathe in a certain area of a city could in fact hide traces of 5 powerful drugs in it? This is what researchers [...]

Honey bees on cocaine dance more

Sun, Dec 28, 2008

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A study conducted by entomology and neuroscience professor Gene Robinson from the University of Illinois sheds new light on the way insect brain works proving that honey bees on cocaine tend to overreact. Usually, foraging honey bees alert the others from the hive about food sources only when more food is necessary or when the [...]

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