Alcohol abuse kills around 95,000 people in the United States every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Moreover, alcohol abuse shortens lives by an average 26 years. A new clinical trial tested psilocybin, the psychedelic compound in magic mushrooms, as a treatment for alcohol misuse disorder.
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Thursday Links
- The chronically ill have trouble paying their bills.
- Survey: 43 percent in the 19-30 age group has used cannabis 20 or more times over the previous year.
- How to earn $139,000 a year as a nurse.
- What a black hole sounds like.
- 40% of US births are out of wedlock. But internationally we are in the middle of the pack. In Iceland it is 71%.
Wednesday Links
- A congressional bill to codify Roe: abortion rights groups can’t stand it.
- Life expectancy declined in every state in 2020.
- State with the longest life expectancy: Hawaii.
- Sometimes it’s better to forget your health insurance and pay cash.
- Electric shock therapy that seems to work.
- More on the idea that if you grow up poor it pays to have rich friends.
- WSJ editors slam Fauci.
Monday Links
- Euthanasia in Canada: are doctors and health workers talking patients into it?
- Japan to young people: drink more alcohol!
- Hospitals say they need more money – their patients are “sicker.”
- The federal government gave state and local governments almost $1 trillion to offset the effects of Covid. What difference did that make? Not much.
- Stats from UK: Why are there so many non-Covid excess deaths? (They may even exceed Covid deaths.)