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Drug Checking As an Important Harm Reduction Tool
The opioid crisis of the 2010s in the U.S. has changed views about the best way to deal with drug abuse. As the overdose rate increased, harm reduction techniques became increasingly popular. A new research report by Alex Betsos, Jenna Valleriani, Jade Boyd, Geoff...
Internal Combustion Cars Will Be Toys in the Future
My grandfather was a contemporary of Thomas Edison. He never met Edison, but while working as a chemist in New York City early in the twentieth century, he met some of Edison’s employees and they talked about technology. My grandfather used to tell me that all the...
Is the COVID-19 Pandemic Harder on Women?
As we have learned over the past few months, pandemics are no fun. COVID-19 has disrupted our lives and created high levels of stress. There are many ways that people deal with stress, some productive and others not so much. New research published in the peer-reviewed...
Joe Biden Got It Right on Drug Abuse
At the presidential debates, Joe Biden mentioned the need to stop incarcerating people for drug use and divert them into treatment instead. It was good to see a major U.S. presidential candidate acknowledge that prison is not an effective way to deal with drug abuse....
Why You Need a Raspberry Pi Computer
I cut my computing teeth on an IBM 360 mainframe in the mid 1970s. I recall countless hours in the university computer center submitting punch card decks and waiting, sometimes hours, for the printed output. The first computer I owned was a Commodore 64, another...
Fight Drugs on the Demand Side Not Supply Side
Drug abuse is an international problem that affects millions of people. In the US and most western countries the solution has been to attack the problem of drug abuse on the supply side by making drug sale and use illegal. In 1971 the Nixon administration declared war...
Harm Reduction Is Important for Everyone
Substance abuse involving alcohol and/or drugs is certainly not new, but the widespread prescribing of opioid drugs for pain has created an epidemic. Opioid-related deaths due to overdose in the U.S. alone skyrocketed in the 2010s. According to the Centers for Disease...
Monetization
So, you may see advertisements on my site now, or at least soon. This is the beginning of a process known as- Monetization So, most of you probably have ad blocking software anyway, so putting advertisements on my site is likely something most of you won't even...
What is an IMSI Catcher, and why should I care?
What is an IMSI Catcher? An international mobile subscriber identity-catcher, or IMSI-catcher is a device used for mobile phone surveillance.They are also often referred to as a Stingray or Stingray Suveillance device. It serves as a MITM (Man in the Middle) attack by...
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