The 5 Best Drug Scares of 2012
Meth babies, deadly energy drinks, fake pot, higher schools, and the drug that makes you eat people's faces
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4. Energy Drink Crisis
Two years ago sensational reporting about the allegedly unique hazards posed by alcoholic energy drinks led to a federal crackdown that forced the reformulation of malt beverages like Four Loko, which no longer contain caffeine. That change did not satisfy crusading journalists such as New York Times business reporter Barry Meier, because it turns out that ordinary energy drinks still contain caffeine—enough to kill you, maybe. If you consume all 18 servings in a bottle of MiO energy drink concentrate, Meier reported on October 23, you will get 1,060 milligrams of caffeine—"more than enough, health specialists say, to sicken children and some adults, and even send some of them to the hospital." Meier also has suggested that two 24-ounce cans of Monster Energy drink, containing substantially less caffeine than two 16-ounce cups of Starbucks coffee, pose a deadly threat to consumers.
Next: Whatever happened to the real stuff?
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Predict the Drug Scare of 2013:
1. Adderall
2. Caffeine
3. Tylenol
4. Opioids
5. AnxiolyticsAnd my bonus, wild-card predictions: Video games/gun fanaticism.
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Already started: prescription painkillers (continued from previous years). The local morning news did a whole thingamabob on the "epidemic" this a.m.
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6. Sugar and high fructose corn syrup
Did you know that candy is available from vending machines? And that minors can buy soda without parental permission? If you're not outraged you're not paying attention.
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Damnit, if you put alcohol at #1 and move the rest down a notch you have my list of favorite drugs in order.
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"butt chugging" doesn't make the list?
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The obozo regime has released a revised, improved version of Reefer Madness wherein it becomes abundantly clear that pot makes you believe in individualism and laissez-faire capitalism.
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The researchers, led by Brown University psychologist Linda LaGasse, claimed to have identified “an important public health problem” that could “place tremendous burdens on society” based on small differences in test scores that may not even have been caused by meth exposure.
I bet that test score gap could be closed with Desoxyn
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So now test scores are a "public health" issue?
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What isn't? There is no sphere of human activity the government can't justify banning,controlling,regulating in the name of "public health".
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"Last May the Partnership at Drugfree.org (formerly the Partnership for a Drug-Free America) announced that "heavy marijuana use" by teenagers was "up 80 percent since 2008.""
As a general rule, any scare headline that talks about a percentage change without telling you the underlying raw numbers is useless.
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It seems a bit glib to make light of prenatal drug exposure. Believe it or not, despite the substantial benefits of methamphetamine and cocaine use in adults, it really can have negative effects on a fetus -- it's not just a conspiracy of the scientists with the newspaper publishers to sell more stories. Although obviously the article is referring to the overblown headline, you don't want to shoot your credibility in the foot by becoming a cheerleader for prenatal exposure to illicit drugs. It comes off bad enough when you cheer drug abuse by adults. Wanting something legalized doesn't necessarily mean you have to endorse it personally.
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