The Indelible Bonobo Experience

Doctors use a solution called TAC that is commonly used to treat bad cuts on the head, face or neck of kids, and it is 11 percent cocaine (roughly equal to a vial of Tony Montana’s sweat). It’s used because it is less painful and invasive than injecting a topical anesthetic and it doesn’t distort or misshape the wound, which can increase the chance of scarring. (via 5 Illegal Drugs With Surprisingly Wholesome Medical Uses | Cracked.com)

• No other drug combines the properties of a vasoconstrictor and an anesthetic.
• Studies show that once the walls are finished melting and you’re done talking to the universe, your chances of staying away from alcohol will be dramatically increased post-trip. An extensive study done in the 1960s and ’70s showed that recovering alcoholics are much less apt to drink excessively, and some even stopped drinking entirely for several months.
• The LSD made the patients feel more confident, happy and satisfied with their lives, decreasing the feelings that led most of them to abuse alcohol in the first place. The effects lasted for about six months, at which point, if LSD were legal, the patients would be able to return to a treatment clinic for another dose, repeating the process until they were able to transition into (relative) sobriety.
• Heroin, as you may know, is an opiate, a class of drugs commonly used as painkillers (heroin itself is actually much more effective than morphine, working its magic in about two or three minutes). The National Health Service (NHS) in Britain recommends giving it to people in extreme pain, people in surgery and women in labor.
• You see, Ecstasy has been shown to help treat people with post-traumatic stress disorder. The reason for this is actually the same reason that the drug is popular recreationally: It releases large amounts of the chemicals serotonin and oxytocin in your brain, making you relaxed and euphoric.  MDMA also allows PTSD patients to relive their experiences more easily while in therapy, which is crucial to overcoming the disorder. Ecstasy lets the sufferers do so without being overwhelmed, by activating the area of the brain responsible for controlling fear and stress. Over time, this results in long-term reduction of fear, allowing the victims to get on with their now dubstep-filled lives.
• Desoxyn, the purest form of meth, is given to obese people for fast short-term weight loss. It’s only prescribed as a short-term treatment for obvious reasons (meth is highly addictive and catastrophic to your well-being). It’s also pretty uncommonly used in this way, as it’s really only prescribed when all other treatments fail (“other treatments” here meaning “vegetables and jogging”).  But even stranger, Desoxyn is prescribed by doctors all over the United States to treat ADHD. Considering that sufferers of ADHD typically exhibit symptoms of jitteriness and inattentiveness, and that meth also causes all of those things, you’d think the first dose would cause the patient’s brain to speed up until he was living in bullet time.  But nothing with the brain is simple, and meth (as well as other stimulants) help regulate brain chemicals called neurotransmitters. At least, that’s what happens when the dosage is carefully controlled by a medical professional who can monitor the results. In general, you should not attempt to self-medicate any medical problem with any substance bought in an alley from a bunch of bikers standing around a burning trash barrel.

Levi was lifted out of his mother’s belly at 10:44 on a May morning, tiny and crying and addicted to opioids. For the past month, he has been lying in a bassinet in a Hamilton hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit. Nurses feed him droplets of morphine and closely monitor him for fever, tremors, rashes and sweat gathering on his neck and brow. By now, they are used to his frenetic, high-pitched cries, an unrelenting and inconsolable wail that indicates a baby going through withdrawal. Nearby, four other newborns — a shocking one-quarter of the nursery’s occupants — are also coming off the narcotic drugs their mothers took while pregnant. It is both a distressing and a familiar sight here at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton and in neonatal intensive care units across the province. In the past five years, there has been a staggering increase in the number of babies born dependent on prescription painkillers. The incidence of neonatal abstinence syndrome, or NAS — in which a baby is born addicted — has skyrocketed alongside the epidemic use of legitimate and illicit opioids, particularly drugs that contain oxycodone, the active ingredient in OxyContin and its replacement, OxyNeo. In 2003-04, Ontario tracked 171 babies born with NAS. In 2010-11, there were 654 — nearly a fourfold increase. Experts say that with Ontario having the highest narcotic use in Canada and among the highest in the world, the tide of addicted babies is in no way abating (via Toronto News: Ontario’s surge in babies born addicted to opioids - thestar.com)

jeez.. I live in this province & had no idea..

• many women who become addicted to opioids start off with a legitimate prescription for the painkillers, perhaps for chronic pain or injuries suffered in a car accident. The highly addictive nature of the drugs means pain control can quickly turn to dependence.
• The fear of withdrawal or being “dope sick” also kept her away from treatment. “It’s like having the flu times 20,” she says. “The pain in your bones is the worst … the pain in your legs is so bad you want to cut them off. You are sick to your stomach, you can’t eat, you sweat … every bad feeling you can possibly imagine you have from opioid withdrawal.”
• Doctors know how to treat babies going through opioid withdrawal with morphine and other drugs. In some mild cases, swaddling and cuddling babies and keeping them in quiet, darkened rooms is enough to ease the symptoms of withdrawal, says Knoppert of the London Health Sciences Centre. Unrecognized, NAS can be cause life-threatening episodes, such as seizures.

1901 Bayer Heroin ad BAYER Pharmaceutical Products ~ HEROIN - HYDROCHLORIDE is pre-eminently adapted for the manufacture of cough elixirs, cough balsams, cough drops, cough lozenges, and cough medicines of any kind. Price in 1 oz. packages, $4.85 per ounce; less in larger quantities. The efficient dose being very small, it is The Cheapest Specific for the Relief of Coughs (In bronchitis, phthisis, whooping cough, etc., etc.) WRITE FOR LITERATURE TO FARBENFABRIKEN OF ELBERFELD COMPANY SELLING AGENTS ~ P.O. Box 2160 40 Stone Street, New York (via Bonkers Institute: 1901 Bayer Heroin ad)

In case you had forgotten the wonderful products coming from Bayer. Apparently, Heroin was their registered trade mark and was sold as a cough remedy.