No drugs
linuxchaos
linuxchaos at NETSCAPEONLINE.CO.UK
Sun Nov 5 10:14:08 EST 2000
Well, my Dad was an advisor to parliament and more or less helped
mastermind Broadgate! Me I've got a BTEC & City & Guilds in
ComputerNetworking & Sound Engineering, alkso halfway through a degree
in computing
Ben
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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