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Methamphetamine – the Respiratory System & Covid-19: Bad Combination
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is the agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that leads public health efforts to advance the behavioral health of the nation. SAMHSA's mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America's communities.
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Trip-killers: a concerning practice associated with psychedelic drug use
Psychedelic drugs such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and psilocybin (‘magic mushrooms’) induce hallucinations and distort thought-processes. The intensity of a psychedelic ‘trip’ can cause distress, agitation, and even psychosis. A recent report showed that at least 8.4% of drug-related presentations to European emergency departments involve psychedelics. This proportion may increase as the clinical use of these agents expands.
There are multiple ways to control a ‘bad trip’ and avoid hospitalisation. One is to take psychedelics under the supervision of a ‘trip-sitter’—a non-intoxicated friend who can provide psychological support. Another is to use additional psychoactive drugs—‘trip-killers’—to attenuate or prematurely end the psychedelic experience. Trip-killers are not new, but have received increased attention on social media in recent years.
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Big Tobaccos Playbook for Marketing to the Young: Campaign for Tobacco Free KidsTobacco companies are deploying a suite of tactics to reach young people and create an immersive, “surround sound” marketing effect on social media... For nearly 75 years, tobacco companies have understood the importance of influencer marketing. In 1949, Philip Morris outlined its marketing strategy for college students stating that they needed to: “‘get ‘em’ young, train ‘em right’ ” recognizing that college students “are widely copied by others. They set styles…[and] because they’re young and if we sell them, we have customers for a long time. ”
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Two of the world’s largest publicly-traded tobacco companies — British American Tobacco (BAT) and Philip Morris International (Philip Morris) — are exploiting the popularity of social media to market addictive products to young people.
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“Vaping can effect your whole life – not just your lungs.”
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Who knew? We all knew, but we continue to follow Big Alcohol and Big Cannabis narratives that have either coercively or seductively lead to concealment of growing harms, not least accidents beyond the road toll. Permission models always drive demand, and when that demand leads to mixing and increasing use of psychotropic toxins, you get more and more of this damage. #PublicHealthMatters #cannabisindustry #alcoholawareness
Prevalence of alcohol and other drug detections in non-transport injury events
Key findings
- AODs were detected in 37% of non-transport injury cases where AOD testing was completed. AOD detections were particularly common in cases of intentional self-harm (47%) and interpersonal violence (69%).
- Of tested patients, alcohol was the most commonly detected substance (25%), followed by cannabinoids (14%), benzodiazepines (13%), amphetamine-type substances (11%), opioids (4%) and cocaine (2%).
- Population-level surveillance of AOD-related injury events is needed to inform prevention approaches that address AOD use as a risk factor for all causes of injury.
(Source: Emergency Medicine Australia)
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