tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post7080239615240655149..comments2023-10-17T04:51:08.765-10:00Comments on KauaiEclectic: Musings: Forwards and BackJoan Conrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00172330100788007499noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-51734775311504608782015-08-21T15:32:14.599-10:002015-08-21T15:32:14.599-10:00Joan did you see this? What are your thoughts? htt...Joan did you see this? What are your thoughts? http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1505660Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-36553922685401024652015-08-21T11:21:53.018-10:002015-08-21T11:21:53.018-10:00That list of chemicals is disparate. Many are comm...That list of chemicals is disparate. Many are common but harmless in quanitites normally encountered.. One is nutritionally necessary to flora and fauna. A couple necessary for the latter, but not the former..I doubt that list is anything more meaningful than someone claims a member may be the cause of some unpleasantness. <br />As for AD. Yes it is more commonly diagnosed. It is also being reevaluated as it may include subcategories that are beneficial. It is unlikely to have a chemical cause. It is more likely attributable to 1. The breakdown of normal family and societal life in America as parents become more immature and juvenile, and children have few real open play opportunities and 2. Electronic visual stimulation that is literally devoid of knowledge or societal value. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-74173083721147275002015-08-20T15:50:23.155-10:002015-08-20T15:50:23.155-10:00This is why we need world wide government. Limit t...This is why we need world wide government. Limit the number of babies. No medical care if you are over 50 years old. Get rid of all medicine that is genetically modified, including insulin. Stop all uses of chlorine and penicillin.<br />Pretty soon we could have a Earth with a manageable population.<br />The Illuminati have been working on Environmental hysteria for years. <br />Don't worry an environmentalist will be coming to your door soon. They will tell you how to live.<br />How self-centered can we be? Is there an unseen finger of God directing the so called fiasco?<br />Or is it a bunch of cry babies that have lost God and now look to Mother Earth for their Omniscience?<br />The Earth can handle, man will figure out a solution..............and leave Kee Beach alone, the tourists have as much right to Gods Green Earth as any resident.<br />Life is good. Don't fall into the grip of the Illuminati......as Felicia knows they might be watching from your KIUC Smart meter.<br />In a world where the Kardashians are the number one Google search and their father becomes the number 2 Google search, err I mean the former Father that is now the Mother? Somewhere priorities are askew.<br /> <br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-20748122323948086612015-08-20T13:42:26.044-10:002015-08-20T13:42:26.044-10:00Not to be flippant about species extinctions, but ...Not to be flippant about species extinctions, but long before humans arrived on the scene, the earth had been subject to cyclically massive specie extinctions throughout the last 500 million or so years, including extinctions from the coming and going of ice ages, meteorite impacts which reduced sunlight, etc. Just noting that these have happened with us - and without us. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-73128695105584546872015-08-20T11:38:34.288-10:002015-08-20T11:38:34.288-10:00ADHD stimulant drug use in college: Is it a form a...ADHD stimulant drug use in college: Is it a form a cheating?<br /><br />JESSICA FIRGER /CBS NEWS<br />May 2, 2014 2:16 PM EDT<br /><br />With demanding schedules, heavy workloads and competition from peers, today's college students are under tremendous pressure. In an effort to stay at the top of their game, many students turn to stimulant drugs such as Adderall, commonly prescribed for ADHD, to boost their stamina and concentration levels.<br /><br />A new study, presented this week at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Vancouver, B.C., surveyed students at an undisclosed Ivy League college and found as many as 18 percent of the students admit to misusing stimulant drugs at least once to help cram for an exam or finish up that 20 page midterm paper. And a third of students said they did not consider it cheating.<br /><br />For the study, the researchers distributed a written survey to 616 sophomores, juniors and seniors who were not known to have ADHD. The authors found 24 percent of students at the college reported use of these drugs at least eight times or more. The majority of them -- 69 percent -- took the medication to write an essay; 66 percent did so to study for an exam; and 27 percent used the drugs to take a test.<br /><br />Students involved with extracurricular activities and social commitments, such as varsity sports and fraternities or sororities, were more likely to use stimulants.<br /><br />The researchers also found mixed opinions on whether students felt stimulant use is a form of cheating. About 40 percent believed using the drugs to aid academic performance is unethical, while 33 percent of the students did not see a problem with using stimulants. A quarter of the students surveyed were undecided.<br /><br />"It is our hope that this study will increase greater awareness and prompt broader discussion about misuse of medications like Ritalin or Adderall for academic purposes," said Natalie Colaneri, lead investigator and research assistant at Cohen Children's Medical Center, in a press release. "It is important that this issue be approached from an interdisciplinary perspective: as an issue relevant to the practice of medicine, to higher education and to ethics in modern-day society."<br /><br />A number of similar studies have found students frequently obtain stimulants by faking ADHD symptoms such as restlessness, inability to concentrate and disorganization. This strategy can have serious repercussion.<br /><br /><br />A report released last year by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) found emergency room visits for nonmedical use of stimulants tripled between 2005 and 2011.<br /><br />Dr. Jon LaPook, chief medical correspondent for CBS News, discussed the report and warned of the dangers these drugs pose. (Watch the video at left.) "They're really playing Russian roulette. There could be very serious side effects," he said. He said risks of stimulant use include heart attack, stroke, psychosis and even death.<br /><br />LaPook spoke with pre-med student Emily Gelber last year about stimulant use at her school. Gelber said she is adamantly against using the drugs to improve academic performance. "One of my first tests I took in college, I found out afterwards they had hidden cameras all over the room to monitor for cheating but the real cheating nowadays doesn't come from peering over a friend's shoulder to look at a test answer," she said. "It comes before the test when people take a pill like Adderall in order to study."<br /><br />Additionally, Gelber has noticed the drugs don't always provide the desired effects. "A lot of people will tell me things like they had a test one day, they took an Adderall and they ended up cleaning their room for 10 hours instead of studying," she said.<br /><br />I have a coworker who took Methylphenidate while in college to get its degree(s) and now shows signs of Meth withdrawals.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-72324837349978414472015-08-20T10:23:36.165-10:002015-08-20T10:23:36.165-10:00Enough already with romanticizing indigenous peopl...Enough already with romanticizing indigenous people, including kanaka. None of them have lived without impacting their environment. Their numbers were just small enough that they could get away with it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-36069540991600815862015-08-20T09:58:39.773-10:002015-08-20T09:58:39.773-10:00Like it was stated in a "POGO" comic str...Like it was stated in a "POGO" comic strip decades ago: "We have met the enemy, and he is US!" The problem is really "attitudinal"! If we (the human species) maintain the attitude that we have "dominion" over the entire planet to the extent that we can plunder,take, destroy, contaminate, and do whatever we damn well please, then we have no one to blame but ourselves for being so self-centered.<br />And yet, there are many environmentally-conscientious cultures and/or groups of inhabitants who have another point of view----to protect and preserve our finite resources as a shared kuleana (the kanaka maoli are on target on this one)!<br />What will it take for the nearly 9 BILLION of the rest of the human population to shift gears about environmental integrity? Sincerely, MrBMrBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-54119376340701309032015-08-20T09:47:45.682-10:002015-08-20T09:47:45.682-10:00Remember we are all living longer than we did gene...Remember we are all living longer than we did generations back, which gives us more time to develop things like dementia, cancer, etc. Perhaps things like ADHD, autism, etc. are natural byproducts of evolution. As we leave scourges behind (e.g. polio, smallpox, etc.), new and more creative scourges develop. Can we really control this? Is there anything to blame other than natural adaptations of humans over time? I have my doubts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-13029230873144202312015-08-20T09:42:10.685-10:002015-08-20T09:42:10.685-10:00Thank you for the post. As the kids in "High ...Thank you for the post. As the kids in "High School Musical" sang, "We're all in this together". No escaping the natural laws regardless of your race, religion or socioeconomic status.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-38964695169357274372015-08-20T09:34:04.557-10:002015-08-20T09:34:04.557-10:00No, I'm leaving that to you.No, I'm leaving that to you.Joan Conrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00172330100788007499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-47324515909232620792015-08-20T09:33:53.213-10:002015-08-20T09:33:53.213-10:00what Joan, no snarkiness today? what Joan, no snarkiness today? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-86075332645553416852015-08-20T09:22:19.756-10:002015-08-20T09:22:19.756-10:00I'm reminded of the great Carl Sagan and "...I'm reminded of the great Carl Sagan and "the pale blue dot"<br /><br /><br />Aloha JoanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com