Showing posts with label drugs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drugs. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

City officials acknowledge the problem

City officials acknowledge the problem, but they say that the heroin addicts are only a small percentage of the toilets' users. Since January, the public toilet outside the aquarium was used nearly 12,000 times, and its owners say it is the busiest in the world.

–Boston Globe, 8 August 2003

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Primitive desires unlocked

The sleeping pill Ambien seems to unlock a primitive desire to eat in some patients, according to emerging medical case studies that describe how the drug's users sometimes sleepwalk into their kitchens, claw through their refrigerators like animals and consume calories ranging into the thousands.

NYTimes, March 14, 2006-03-14