Archive for the ‘Drugs’

28 April, 2008

A cup of coffee a day, will keep the doctor away

A cup of coffee a day, will keep the doctor away

Besides a nice wake-up in the morning, coffee may also cut the risk of dementia by blocking the damage cholesterol can inflict on the body. The drink has already been linked to a lower risk of Alzheimer’s Disease. Researchers from the University of North Dakota in the U.S. looked at the effect of caffeine on […]

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26 February, 2008

Help, I cannot get addicted anymore!!!

Help, I cannot get addicted anymore!!!

A new vaccine against addictions has been developed by a group of researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Canada. For now, the vaccine only works on cocaine, but promising tests have been made with the vaccine against methamphetamines. The new vaccines not only relieves addiction but also decreases withdrawal symptoms. The way the vaccine works, […]

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16 November, 2007

Remove yourself from your body

Remove yourself from your body

Haven’t you every wanted to just remove yourself from your body, just for a while, and see how that feels like? Well, that might become reality, instead of science-fiction. Specialists of the Flemish University Hospital in Antwerp have accidentally aroused a patient into a out-of-body-experience, while trying to treat the patient from a annoying buzz […]

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19 September, 2007

Meth, the world’s most dangerous drug

Meth, the world’s most dangerous drug

Meth, crystal meth, speed, ice, crank, tweek/tweak, glass, uppers, yaba, shabu shabu. Just some synonyms for the drug methamphetamine. After seeing the documentary on National Geographic about meth, I got interested in the way the drug works and effects the body. The results of use are, although the process is slow, disasterious, both on inside […]

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23 August, 2007

Coffee, oh delicious coffee

Coffee, oh delicious coffee

Coffee contains several compounds which are known to affect human body chemistry. For instance caffeine, which acts as a stimulant. The word caffeine is also called guaranine when found in guarana, mateine when found in mate, and theine when found in tea; all these names are considered chemical synonyms for the same chemical compound. Caffeine […]

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