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Friday, October 24, 2008, 07:00 PM: Life Extension with Jerry Emanuelson

Jerry will be talking about his 25+ year experience with life extension treatments, including hormone injections, his longevity doctor, what treatments to ask a doctor for, how to find and guide a doctor, an interesting example of the 'medical priesthood vs. empowered patient' conflict as more healthcare treatments are about prevention/enhancement, getting his DNA scanned with deCODEme and opensourcing his genome on the SNPedia.com, and more.

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Drug Addiction

Smoking hash increases the chances of later heavier drug use in young people

Young people who smoke hash or marijuana risk developing greater neurobiological sensitivity to heavier drugs like heroin. Several epidemiological studies support the gateway hypothesis, which states that cannabis smoking at a young age is a gateway to other kinds of drug abuse later in life. However, it has not been ascertained whether it is cannabis per se that increases the risk of other drug abuse or whether common underlying social or hereditary risk factors make cannabis users more prone to it. "We wanted to empirically test the gateway hypothesis in the absence of social and moral factors," says scientist Maria Ellgren at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience. "All addictive drugs affect the brain’s reward system, and our question was therefore whether cannabis exposure causes molecular and neurochemical changes that give a greater reward effect from other narcotics." The study was conducted on rats at an age corresponding to the teenage years in humans.

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The Meth Epidemic: A production of Frontline in association with The Oregonian

An investigation into how and why meth use spiraled out of control and became the fastest-growing drug abuse problem in America.

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