No drugs

[Tom Clark]

I always wanted to be a botanist, and grow weed in Humbolt County.
Somehow, I ended up in a satellite communications business, and own a
company dealing with it.
Kind of fitting I guess, since I am involved with spacey things......
:))

ANDREW GARIBALDI wrote:

> Don't know about the rest of you but I found that interesting - I
> always wanted to be a pharmacist but failed horribly at physics. Still
> ended up with a Biology Degree though - which prompts tonight's little
> trivia question - who's the 'smartest' one here - anyone own up to
> degrees? doctorates? members of parliament? future presidents (oh,
> sorry, that's next week isn't it!!!)Andy Garibaldi (not entirely
> seriously you understand)
>
>      ----- Original Message -----
>      From: Brad Dahl
>      To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU
>      Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 3:25 PM
>      Subject: Re: No drugs
>       >>>watch out for all those pharmacuetical legal drugs tho -
>      panadol for one ( garbage that produces no pain relief other
>      than a placebo effect and actually causes liver damage - did
>      you know headaches are a symtom of liver damage?) Let's see
>      if I can work some BOC content into this... As someone who
>      spends way to much of his time trying to save people who
>      have overdose on medications (aka drugs), I felt a need to
>      comment on this.  Panadol or Tylenol in the US (paracetamol
>      or acetaminophen) is actually quite an effective and safe
>      analgesic, when used in the proper doses.  In fact,
>      acetaminophen itself will cause no damage to your liver.
>      The problem occurs when you take so much that your body
>      cannot metabolize it via the normal routes to safe
>      metabolites and instead metabolizes it to a very toxic
>      metabolite.  In a normal healthy adult it takes at least 7
>      grams of acetaminophen before this problem occurs (or 14 of
>      the extra strength tablets).  Of course, you can also get
>      into trouble by taking more than the 2 tablets at an
>      increased frequency than recommended (which provides no
>      greater pain relief no matter what you may think) or you
>      have preexisting liver problems (or maybe have a frequent
>      "beverage"). I have yet to see anyone kill themselves with
>      ibuprofen, so there is you challenge for the day. Party
>      on! Brad Oh yeah, (warning BOC content) at my first concert
>      which was BOC, Kansas and Ted Nugent at the Long Beach
>      Sports Arena in 1975 (anybody else here get to that one?),
>      my friend had been very ill with vomiting so he had some
>      medicine from his physician that he referred to as "stomach
>      tranquilizers".  We were getting a drink from a drinking
>      fountain when a guy in line saw him take one and said "Hey,
>      can I have some of those?".  My friend said "They're just
>      stomach tranquilizers." and the guy said "Cool" and took
>      about 3-4 of them.  I remember after the concert looking at
>      the many passed out people on the floor (some in a pile of
>      vomit) as we left and thinking "You guys really missed a
>      great show." Maybe I'm the one who missed the great show?
>      Probably not.  (what a prude I am)
>
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