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The @NIA_India has arrested 9 Sri Lankans which includes gangsters (Kimbula Ele Guna & Ladiya) from a special camp for #Srilanka's Tamil refugees at the #Tiruchirappalli over their alleged involvement in #drugs & arms smuggling to revive the #LTTE.

#Tamilnadu #Narcotics
Sources say that the @NIA_India has also revealed that 2 out of the 9 arrested were in constant touch with a #Pakistan-based drug runner (Haji Salim), who often travelled between #Dubai, Pakistan & #Iran.
Complete list of arrested:

C Gunashekharan alias Guna, Pushparajah, Mohammad Asmin, Alahapperumaga Sunil Ghamini Fonseaa, Stanly Kennady, Ladiya Chandrasena, Dhanukka Roshan, Vella Suranka & Thilipan.

#Srilanka #India #LTTE #Pakistan #Tamilnadu #Kerala #Drugs #Narcotics
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@FFHde berichtet von einem: "Große[n] Schlag gegen [die] Drogenkriminalität" 👊🏼👮🏻‍♂️

Doch war der Schlag wirklich so groß? Haben solche Aktionen überhaupt ansatzweise einen Einfluss auf das Angebot?🤔

Nehmen wir das hier einmal sachlich auseinander.🧵 (1/22)
Gehen wir davon aus, dass es sich bei den gefunden 10kg "Drogen" allein um #Cannabis handelt, dann sind das grade einmal 0,0025% (gerundet 0,0%) des jährlichen Verbrauchs in Deutschland. Dieser liegt bei geschätzten 400 Tonnen pro Jahr.🥦

(2/22)
Selbst wenn wir davon ausgehen, dass die genannten 250kg, die vmtl. gehandelt wurden, rein aus #Cannabis bestanden, wären das immernoch nur winzige 0,0625% des jährlichen Verbrauchs der Deutschen. 🇩🇪🤷🏼‍♂️

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Die #Rheinallee in #Leverkusen

Ein ca. 25ha grosses #Gebiet, seit den 20er Jahren #Deponie von #Bayer, etwa drei Millionen Tonnen #Chemieabfall, ab den 50er Jahren besiedelt, #Wohnungsanlage Dhünnaue / Rheinalle.

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Ab 1995 Abdichtung der #Deponie gegen #Wasser für 110 Millionen Euro. Unter anderem 40 Meter tiefe #Sperrwand zum #Rhein als #Grundwasserbarriere.
Ab April 2005 #Landesgartenschau unter dem #Motto #Neuland entdecken. Heute ein #Park.
Der #Explosionsort in #Leverkusen auf dem #Bild der rot markierte #Bereich
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#MayoIDQ 69M was brought to the ED because of weakness. PE: intoxicated disheveled man with multiple skin ulcers / excoriations.
WBC 27. CK 1486. AST 76.
Wound culture: Clostridium botulinum

Which of the following is most consistent with wound botulism?
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#Botulism

#Botulinum neurotoxin binds to cholinergic nerve terminals and cleaves intracellular proteins needed for #acetylcholine release —> reduced acetylcholine —> neuromuscular blockade —> bulbar palsies, hypotonia, and symmetric, descending, #flaccid #paralysis.
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#Botulism

Clinical features
1. Flaccid paralysis
2. Prominent cranial nerve palsies
3. Descending progression
4. Symmetrical presentation
5. No sensory nerve dysfunction.

43% are correct in MCQ

cdc.gov/botulism/healt…
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ATTN #CBD stakeholders: @US_FDA today holding scientific conf. on CBD/other #cannabinoids. I'll be live tweeting throughout. Not sure we'll get much insight on immediate path forward for consumer products but I'll share noteworthy observations. Agenda: bit.ly/3pHXU8V
I'll be paying particular attention to @DrAbernethyFDA's remarks at 9:05a (head of #FDA's #CBD Policy Working Group) and @DThrockmortonMD's keynote at 9:15a (one of Agency's principals for regulating R&D, manufacture & marketing of #cannabis & cannabis-derived #drug products).
And we're underway! First up is Kaveeta Vasisht, MD, PharmD. Associate Commissioner for Women’s
Health and Director, Office of Women’s Health, FDA. She's noting ubiquity of #CBD products in marketplace, many of which are targeted to #women.
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2012 column by leading pain expert B Eliot Cole, MD, MPA, warned that "radical changes" proposed by a group calling itself #PROP would deny #opioids "to the majority of patients now receiving them for noncancer pain." / thread hcplive.com/view/just-how-…
In the early 2000s, "buoyed by the success of treating cancer-related pain with #opioids, many physicians rose to the challenge of doing more for their patients suffering with #ChronicPain," Cole wrote.
"This led to an increase in the number of prescriptions for #opioids, which had the unintended consequence of more opioids ending up in medicine cabinets in more homes, ultimately giving more people (🚩not patients) access to these valuable medications for nonmedical purposes."
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Pic of soldier guarding the 👑’s poppy farm in Afghanistan for ‘Poppy’ Bush who was a 👑 asset. Did you think he was called Poppy as a term of endearment? #Opium #DrugWar #Heroin Image
More pics from #DrugWar in Afghanistan. How many trillions of tax payer’s $ laundered for this? ImageImageImageImage
So many lives lost over this #DrugWar. This was was about #Adrenochrome too. Many Afghanistan murdered for their blood & organs. ImageImageImageImage
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Tomm we start a journey at @ZuckerSoM w/ 3rd yr #MedicalStudents to enhance #Awareness #Education #Skills #Comfort #Hope re: #OpioidCrisis

13.5 hours - "#OpioidEpidemic" themed week (3rd iteration)

Follow/RT as Students, Colleagues, & I tweet - #OURcrisis

#MEDeD #RecoveryMonth
1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ MS3 #Students

6️⃣0️⃣ Faculty/Facilitators

3️⃣0️⃣ Clinical/Non-Clinical Depts

#OURcrisis @ZuckerSoM

@GIMaPreceptor @DrYili @MartinsWelchMD @JoeCMD @medicmin911 @ektrenchard @ethanfried @ginofarina @LindaWDeMasi @AFornari1 @joemd @DrAhuja @santhoshpaulus6 @TomMcGinn4
#Strategic Full Circle
1. from Health System (need)
2. to School of #Medicine (access)
3. to Health System (access/mission)

Our #OpioidEpidemic themed week is part of a 30+hour 4-yr longitudinal 'Addressing #SubstanceUse' curriculum
#OURcrisis #MEDeD
🔗: sgim.org/File%20Library…
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Production has doubled since the '09' figures in this piece. It gets the basics right, that #Heroin lit the US opiate epidemic. #BigPharma Rx was kindling. #Fentanyl the accelerant. But it was bulk heroin that was the cause.
globalresearch.ca/a-conspiracy-t…
The true story has been so successfully suppressed, it must be via some degree of quasi-official connivance? By seizing & reporting only on Mexican-border trafficking, they're able to propagate the official lie, that Afghan #heroin doesn't make it to USA! Lol.
CDC figures show the #epidemiology of the #heroin epidemic, began in Midwest, NorthEast, 2007-10 & spread out. #Afghan 'white' powder from the 'Great White North', -not- the desultory flow of Mexican 'brown' from South America.
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TWO suspected Drug Traffickers were today morning arrested at Bamburi, Mombasa by @DCI_Kenya Anti Narcotics Detectives following the recovery of several Packets of suspected #Heroin & over Ksh. 1 Million in cash from their House. Both placed in custody and investigations ongoing. Image
A search conducted in the residence of the main suspect; 34-year-old Bwanahamad Fara led to the recovery of the said suspected substance & cash believed to be proceeds of the Illegal Business. The second suspect Abubakar Yahya (24yrs) was also found in the house and arrested.
Further testing ascertained that the confiscated drugs were #Heroin ImageImage
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1/ I note with deep sorrow the passing of .@MarkARKleiman, an early mentor and longtime friend of mine. Mark set the bar high for intellectual honesty and creative thinking about hard problems, especially in the #criminal #justice and #drug #policy areas...
@MarkARKleiman 2/ @.MarkARKleiman hired me for my first substantive job as his research assistant at .@Harvard's Kennedy School of #Government and as part of his then-nascent consulting firm, BOTEC Analysis, in 1984. He was unrelenting about putting data first...
@MarkARKleiman @Harvard 3/ ...fearlessly following facts wherever they may lead. He hosted a blog called The Reality-Based Community, samefacts.com, the tagline of which is "Everyone is entitled to his opinion, but not his own facts."
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Afghan war killed 2 children daily in 2010 - report uk.reuters.com/article/uk-afg…
Almost 100,000 people killed in Afghanistan since U.S.-led intervention in 2001: Report | Afghan Zariza afghanzariza.com/2015/06/02/alm… via @AfghanZariza
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