Category Archives: Health

Skywalking in Canada

Posted on October 8, 2018 by odeboyz

Richard M

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Really good medical advice

Posted on September 13, 2018 by odeboyz

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Britain’s incoherent drug laws

Posted on August 31, 2018 by odeboyz

The British government’s rhetoric about drug use is facile. Heroically misplaced aspirations are paraded with the premise that positive action will be decisive. A so-called Drug Tsar was appointed as long ago as 1998. Why, one wonders, would a British … Continue reading →

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Paying for blood: a good thing?

Posted on August 17, 2018 by odeboyz

Only countries that pay for plasma are self-sufficient in it. (Italy where donors are given time off work, is close to self-sufficiency.) Half of America’s plasma is shipped to Europe- 20M contributions worth. Canada imports 80% of its plasma products … Continue reading →

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The Anatomy Act, 1832: the Criminal Antecedents

Posted on June 28, 2018 by odeboyz

Prior to 1832, dissection used corpses direct from the gallows. These corpses were the only legal supply of bodies for medical schools. Dissection of executed murderers was uncontroversial as they’d lost all of their rights. Britain’s ferocious penal code provided … Continue reading →

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Essex Police: the Keystone Cops?

Posted on June 22, 2018 by odeboyz

“Officers originally thought Palmer had died of natural causes because of keyhole surgery to his chest, but it later emerged he had been shot six times at close range. An inquest in 2016 heard there were failings on the part … Continue reading →

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Rationing 1940-1954

Posted on June 21, 2018 by odeboyz

I was born in 1944. My first two years I and my two older brothers were evacuated with our mother to a small terraced house in Bolton (Lancashire). We returned to London in 1946. I remember shopping with my Mum … Continue reading →

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The case for the legalisation of drugs: the marketplace has spoken

Posted on June 19, 2018 by odeboyz

In the recent Global Survey on Drugs, cocaine users around the world reported, that their most recent cocaine order was delivered in less time, on average, than their most recent pizza order. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/05/facts-drugs-including-fentanyl.html#comments Chris

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Why the poor have bad diets

Posted on June 5, 2018 by odeboyz

When we walked through the door at midnight at the end of a shift, we kicked off our boots and collapsed onto our beds with a bag of McDonalds and a can of beer. We did not – and nor … Continue reading →

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Bleak Dystopian Future

Posted on June 4, 2018 by odeboyz

As time drifts ever onward Memory’s seem to fade faster, each day Short term memory loss, concerning Like a rubbed out black board Where only the odd word is still discernable. The once busy blackboard’s copious notes Instructions to be … Continue reading →

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