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Getting High For a Living: Hamilton Morris on the Importance of Drugs

Going Mental with Eileen Kelly

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Do Benzodiazepines Have a Street Name?

I just hope with the more funding and the more research that they'll start to figure out at least partially some of these questions yeah. I hear like one example is the barbiturates there was a time you don't even know what that isYeah, it's an incredible medical breakthrough because there weren't very good treatments for epilepsy or insomnia or anxiety then someone finds these substances that are really good for that better than anything that existed everyone starts using them but the problem is that they were fatal and overdose so people would accidentally overdose in a manner similar to the way that people accidentally overdose on opioids. If you combine them with alcohol the effect was disastrous it was extremely extremely dangerous and this is how

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