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The Effects of Cannabis On Weight Loss, Exercise Performance and Insulin Resistance
This report is a collection of news items and research reports related to the effects of medical cannabis. Some of this information is anecdotal and has to be validated by formal clinical trials. But if only a fraction of the results claimed by personal users is correct, then we indeed have a very useful substance within…
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Drug Overdose Increasing – Known Solutions Ignored
Dear Colleagues, BMJ article: increasing overdoses but they ignore known solutions (+ Hari TED talk). There is no more ‘final’ statistic regarding drug use than overdose deaths. And in England the official figures go back to Victorian times, then often involving opium, laudanum and other strong drugs including alcohol. The British Coroner’s Act of 1844…
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Medical Marijuana Creates Clinical and Financial Opportunity for Pharmacists
The Australian Government intends to amend the Narcotic Drugs Act to allow cannabis to be grown for medicine or science and ensure that Australia is not in breach of international drug treaties. In Australia currently Cannabis is prohibited or otherwise managed through Drug Scheduling: (a) when separately specified in these Schedules; or (b) processed hemp…
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The Power of One
I came across a story regarding a police initiative to combat the escalating prescription opioid abuse that is affecting communities in the US (and Australia) and which is causing family destruction and tying up unnecessary police resources at a very high cost for government. The story is really quite inspirational and may have application within Australia,…
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Homeopathy and the APLF – What’s Wrong With This Picture?
It’s not so long ago that i2P asked me to investigate the NHRMC investigation into homeopathy, because of perceived bias. Go to: Homeopathy – A Political Diversion Rather Than a Valid Issue This was requested because i2P was receiving information regarding the manipulation of orchestrated attacks on some health modalities, in particular homeopathy and chiropractic.…
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Get Up Advert banned
As government becomes secretive and undemocratic and mainstream media aids the process, it generates a climate that allows for the formation of equal and opposite alternatives, and to mobilise affected communities. These manifest as a range of “whistle-blowers”, online polls and surveys, blogs published over the Internet and news aggregators that attempt to provide a…
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The Precautionary Principle – Why did it disappear in formulating vaccine policy?
These days, when you raise any comment or query regarding the effectiveness of a vaccine, the mainstream media label you as an “anti-vaxer” and either ignore you or write you up in a derogatory fashion. And isn’t it strange that a universal call for “safe vaxing” is not even mentioned, because it does not suit…
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A Call to Arms – Your Next Fight for Survival
In our last edition our lead article COSBA Support for Pharmacists Owning Pharmacies may not have attracted your attention and the significance of a different type of threat to the survival of pharmacy. We were interested to note that at least one pharmacist was alert to these circumstances and posted to the Auspharmlist Bulletin Board who noted…
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Are Your Consumers Customers or Patients?
It seems that as pharmacies become more corporate in nature and larger in total business transacted, the concepts of pharmacy are tested, with the view of providing more financial benefit to the owners, either in the format of paying lowest possible wages to employed pharmacists, illegal removal or manipulation of award requirements (such as meal…
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Why the Business World Feels so Different
The major global management consultancies have, until very recently, been operating in uncharted territory and feeling very uncomfortable, because they were unable to give clients a sense of direction. This was a direct result of having lost their own sense of direction. With the passage of time and the collection of sufficient data, there is…