"Viagra-laced ‘erectile honey’ is flooding into France, officials warn"
France last year seized record quantities of illegally imported “erectile honey” laced with Viagra and other medications, customs officials said Monday.
The honey, which is mostly shipped to France from Turkey, north Africa and southeast Asia, is sold on the black market and at night shops, where it is hawked as an all-natural sexual stimulant, according to the French customs office.
However, it often contains hidden pharmaceuticals like sildenafil or tadalafil, the main substances in the erectile dysfunction drugs Viagra and Cialis, news agency AFP reported. Those drugs can be dangerous if they interact with other medications, such as those treating high blood pressure.
There are about to be a lot more tour eiffels across the French countryside.
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Chris Christie with a solid drug plan for opioid crisis
Credit where credit is due. Christie is pushing for handling the ongoing crisis. I forgot he worked on this under Trump, so it's not a new development for him to be attached to facing this issue.
Christie led a White House commission on opioid misuse in 2017, and he praised former president Donald Trump for endorsing all 56 of its recommendations. But only about half have been enacted, and both Trump and President Joe Biden have treated the problem as a crisis in name only, Christie said.
Christie said he would increase access to medication-assisted treatment by making the telehealth policies created during the coronavirus pandemic permanent, requiring all federally qualified health centers to provide such treatment and creating mobile opioid treatment programs.
He also called for expanding block grants to states, tied to specific requirements for data collection and sharing. The pandemic, he argued, showed that vast amounts of data can be gathered and shared quickly, and the same should be done to track overdose deaths and identify the areas of greatest need.
"We've been told for decades it's just too difficult to accurately track and understand," he said. "If we keep saying that these things are too hard, what we're saying is that working harder at this is too much and that the lives that we're losing are not worth it. I'm sorry, I just don't believe that."
If you had asked me ten years ago how much I'd respect Christie in this day-and-age, I'd have laughed in your face. It's a statement on the state of the right that Christie is among the best of them right now.
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The CIA ran a Secret Brothel in San Francisco in the 50s and 60s
Remember, power corrupts.
White was the federal agent responsible for a top-secret CIA program called "Operation Midnight Climax." The CIA thought it could use hallucinogenic drugs like LSD as weapons of war against its enemies. To find out, the agency got Bay Area residents high without their consent.
White outfitted rooms inside a Telegraph Hill apartment building, at 225 Chestnut St., into a safe house for testing LSD. He gave sex workers get-out-of-jail-free cards in exchange for luring unsuspecting johns to the apartment, where the men were dosed with acid while White watched from the other side of a one-way mirror.
Operation Midnight Climax is now an infamous example of government abuse, but in White's opinion, according to a letter unearthed by John Marks in his 1979 book "The Search for the 'Manchurian Candidate,'" it was nothing but "fun, fun, fun."
"Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape, and pillage with the sanction and blessing of the All-Highest?" White asked.
And, regarding the value derived from this endeavor?
The eight-year mission apparently produced almost nothing of value for the spy agency. The agents never discovered a mind control technique or truth serum they could use against America's enemies. They did learn at least one lesson: It's easier to get something out of a man after he had sex instead of before, according to Marks, who interviewed agents who had worked with White.
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For more than 14% of people who use insulin in the U.S., insulin costs consume at least 40% of their available income, a new study finds.
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King County Washington has an Overdose dashboard
Not exactly a fun dashboard to play with, but it lays bare the crisis we're undergoing with opioids.
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Mark Cuban is taking on the Pharmaceutical Industry
He is going to take on big drug makers and make overpriced drugs for low cost. We will see how it goes. His company's first making is a drug for treating hookworm which currently sells for $250, and he'll sell for $20.
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