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Addiction and Drug Education Blogs and Podcasts, looking at drug use trends and treatment, and how addiction is tied to the brain as well as the body addiction, drugs, education, recovery, substance abuse education, prevention, chemical dependency, AOD CNS Productions CNS Productions service@cnsproductions.com no no http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/podcasts/595/ http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/podcasts/595/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:01:09 +0000 CNS http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/?p=595 http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/podcasts/595/feed/ 0 00:01:01 Although it is coerced treatment, drug courts around the country are proving to be extremely effective in helping people get treatment, and stay out of, ... Although it is coerced treatment, drug courts around the country are proving to be extremely effective in helping people get treatment, and stay out of, or not return to jail for drug offenses. Dr Inaba comments further. Decriminalization / Legalization, Demand reduction, Dr. Darryl Inaba, In the News, Podcasts, Treatment & Testing CNS Productions no no http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/podcasts/477/ http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/podcasts/477/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:21:58 +0000 CNS http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/?p=477 http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/podcasts/477/feed/ 0 00:01:01 Our addiction radio podcast this week looks at news of increased coca growing in Bolivia and its complications, the War on Drugs and reports of ... Our addiction radio podcast this week looks at news of increased coca growing in Bolivia and its complications, the War on Drugs and reports of more opium being grown in Afghanistan on less acres,  and differences in efforts at supply reduction vs. new ideas on demand reduction. Transcript of podcast (click to listen): CNS: Hello and once again welcome to the internet radio addiction pod cast from CNS. I’m Howard LaMere here with Dr Darryl Inaba and Darryl … a variety of interesting things in the news starting off, I was watching John Stewart show last night and there was a comment about cocaine - nine out of ten dollar bills or, US currency apparently have cocaine residue on them, which is really amazing. Darryl: That, that’s actually, that’s actually a very old story and one of my favorite stories that dates back to the peak of the cocaine epidemic and the starting of freebase and all that back in the mid to late 1980’s and it does lead to the questions about cocaine. Behind all this meth and ecstasy, and heroin increasing, prescription drugs, you know in a way people have forgotten a little bit about cocaine. But cocaine is also on the rise I believe in, in the United States and in the rest of the world. The DEA and the office of National Drug Control Policy made the war on drugs (into a) war on cocaine and that was under General Barry McCaffrey and may have put in a lot of money and put all their efforts not at all drugs, but they said lets really concentrate on cocaine and they went to Columbia, got the government to basically outlaw any cocaine. Cocaine became outlawed in Columbia the largest growing region and, and people forget that the South Americans from the Incas on down have a real cultural tradition of chewing coca leaves. CNS: Hundreds of thousands of years. Darryl: Yeah, and they, they pick the leaves and they don’t extract the cocaine from it they just chew the leaves with some sort of alkaloid. I really like it because in the old days with the Incas they used to mix it with a bird crap and strangely enough I think there’s a lot of evidence that show that, that was a lot healthier than, than what they evolve into and that’s mixing it with lime or soda-lime or mixing it with ashes, now they mix burnt palm leaves that they burn down to ashes and they mix with it, and that the guano, the bat crap was actually organic. It was actually balanced, it was an actual alkaline substrate that in, in your mucus membranes it didn’t have that much damage to your gums and to your teeth and things like that where as now days using much more hygienic, they say and sterile things they’re getting all kinds of denture problems and gum problems from chewing the coca leaves. But this is as you say, for thousands of years it’s been part of the culture.  And to think that we can just eradicate it overnight just by making it illegal in Columbia and that people won’t want to do it anymore and not that I’m saying it’s addicting it’s just like coffee or um, it’s, it’s a cultural… CNS: Norm. Darryl: People chew coca leaves and they don’t go crazy, they don’t rob other people for it, they don’t have paranoid dilutions, they don’t crave it when they’re taken into the armed services for six or eight years to serve as, as a citizen and they don’t go through withdrawal or anything. So it, it has been a culturally  accepted norm thing but eradicating it for Columbia, stimulated Bolivia and the Bolivian President Evo Morales came in, he avowed that this, this is such an important thing to my people we are going to be, I am going to be more liberal and allow coca growing especially targeted for commercial purposes for the chewing of the leaves. I think he chewed the leaves with Oliver Stone on TV just to show, you know, how he’s behind that and it’s not a major addiction issue. For shampoos some of the ingredients, are good in shampoo, and for even tooth paste and things l Decriminalization / Legalization, Demand reduction, Dr. Darryl Inaba, Heroin & opiates, In the News, Podcasts CNS Productions no no