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RememberUsAlways<p>"The New Lines Institute, a Washington think tank, estimates that the global <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/captagon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>captagon</span></a> market is worth about $5.7 billion, more than half as much as the cocaine market in Europe. Of that, the Assad regime fetched an annual average of about $2.4 billion between 2020 to 2022—roughly one-fourth of Syria’s GDP".<br><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/middleast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>middleast</span></a> <br><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Amphetamines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amphetamines</span></a> <br><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Amphetamine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amphetamine</span></a><br><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-middle-east-drug-fueling-war-crime-and-all-night-parties/ar-AA1t2374?ocid=BingNewsBrowse" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-m</span><span class="invisible">iddle-east-drug-fueling-war-crime-and-all-night-parties/ar-AA1t2374?ocid=BingNewsBrowse</span></a></p>
Flipboard Science Desk<p>West Virginia University mycology professor Matt Kasson is tracking a fungus called Massospora cicadina. It is the only one on Earth that makes amphetamine in a critter when it takes over. This fungus takes control over the cicadas, making them hypersexual, looking to spread the parasite as a sexually transmitted disease, NBC News reports:<br><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/zombie-cicadas-controlled-fungus-sex-crazed-rcna157956" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nbcnews.com/science/science-ne</span><span class="invisible">ws/zombie-cicadas-controlled-fungus-sex-crazed-rcna157956</span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Fungus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fungus</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Parasite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Parasite</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Zombie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Zombie</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Cicadas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cicadas</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Amphetamine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amphetamine</span></a></p>
Longreads<p>"And this is the point: first came Adderall, then came the Internet. We didn’t get on Adderall because the Internet was too good. The Internet was good in the particular way that it was good because we were on Adderall."</p><p>At Pioneer Works, nine writers share different takes on <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/amphetamine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amphetamine</span></a> culture: <a href="https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/club-med-adderall" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pioneerworks.org/broadcast/clu</span><span class="invisible">b-med-adderall</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Adderall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Adderall</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Drugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Drugs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Addiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Addiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medicine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MentalHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MentalHealth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Essay</span></a></p>
Norobiik @Norobiik@noc.social<p>Backstory on <a href="https://noc.social/tags/Syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Syria</span></a>'s multi-billion <a href="https://noc.social/tags/captagon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>captagon</span></a> drug trade via a June 2023 BBC article. Captagon is a highly addictive <a href="https://noc.social/tags/amphetamine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amphetamine</span></a>-like drug that has plagued the <a href="https://noc.social/tags/MiddleEast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleEast</span></a> in recent years and has now spread to <a href="https://noc.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a>, <a href="https://noc.social/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a> and <a href="https://noc.social/tags/Asia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Asia</span></a>. <a href="https://noc.social/tags/AssadRegime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AssadRegime</span></a> <a href="https://noc.social/tags/Hezbollah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hezbollah</span></a> <a href="https://noc.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> </p><p>Syria: New Captagon drug trade link to top officials found - BBC News<br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-66002450" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/world-middle-east</span><span class="invisible">-66002450</span></a></p><p>Back toot: <a href="https://noc.social/@Norobiik/111724479003243906" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">noc.social/@Norobiik/111724479</span><span class="invisible">003243906</span></a></p>
Nando161<p>"psa adhd gang, people recreationally using or abusing stimulants is not why they're hard to get, they're hard to get because doctors can be absolute motherfuckers with egos the size of saturn who like to play god with people's lives. if they didn't have the "drug seeking behavior" line to use as a tool to be a dick, they'd just say "tsk tsk you're obviously wrong about your own symptoms" a little more often than they already do. peace and love on planet amphetamines.</p><p>and this gets me because. it's like there's a contingent of adhders who heard that we're predisposed to substance abuse issues and, rather than connecting the dots of "substance abuse is often a coping mechanism resorted to in the wake of insufficient care for a psychological disorder, stigma against addicts is one more link in the chain of systemic societal ableism," instead thought "drug users are dangerous and selfish people who are out to do harm to uniquely vulnerable people like me." for a while I put this mindset down to the lack of experience and time to process ideas that comes with youth; it still sucks, but the people I knew in middle school who had bad takes about drugs and alcohol no longer think that way now we're in college, and mostly they changed their minds on their own instead of needing me or someone else to call them out directly. but there are subsets of adhd communities who used these talking points when their average age was 15 in 2016 and are still using them now when their average age is 22. so maybe the hot new trend for 2023 should be interrogating the propaganda you've been fed about drug users for your whole life and considering whether these ideas hold up to compassionate scrutiny and who benefits if you believe them."</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/endthedrugwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>endthedrugwar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/stopthedrugwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stopthedrugwar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/classwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>classwar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/drugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drugs</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/drug" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drug</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pharmacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pharmacy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/humanrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humanrights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fuckthesystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fuckthesystem</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/eattherich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eattherich</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pharmaceuticals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pharmaceuticals</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/entheogenic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>entheogenic</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/amphetamine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amphetamine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/methamphetamine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>methamphetamine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ego" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ego</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/econotego" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>econotego</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/hater-of-terfs/727073743648735232?source=share" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tumblr.com/hater-of-terfs/7270</span><span class="invisible">73743648735232?source=share</span></a></p>