The Gin Craze Podcast

Another 'In Our Time' BBC podcast of note.

Everyone should know about the 'Gin Craze' that occurred in Great Britain once distilling came to rival and in some instances to displace fermentation of wine and brewing of beer/ale.

Example of a tech-shift akin to what happened when crack-cocaine in unit dose form was devised during the US cocaine powder insufflation epidemic of the 1975-1985 era, with crack displacing a much more hazardous 'freebase cocaine' self-administration process that involved serious inflammation. (See tragic Richard Pryor story for an example of a freebase casualty.)

Which data did Twenge use? Did she stratify by year of birth?

Or just use age-bins like 12-17?

Measurement of depression? Major Depression? Screener?

Economist article.

Economist

OED on mariguana mariahuana marijuana cannabis

OED mark-up

Need daily monitor for MTF portal availability.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29109106

T32-1A: regular agenda item

Gender in the news

Germany 3

Drug cocktails

1. http://www.asahq.org/lifeline/anesthesia%20topics/faq%20robo%20trippingoverthecounter%20drug%20abuse

2. https://pointsadhsblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/forgotten-drugs-of-abuse-part-1-ts-and-blues/

3. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/21/the-rise-and-fall-of-miamis-ceo-of-purple-drank/?utm_term=.429f67a1880f

One of the most widely glorified opioids in hip-hop is lean, which is a mix of codeine syrup — a prescription opiate, promethazine and Sprite. It is referenced in a multitude of rap songs and is often referred to as "syrup" or "purple drank."

Lil Peep: RIP

Forsyth: History of Drunkenness

His podcast: History Extra episode:

http://www.historyextra.com/podcast/food/drinking-history

Easy listen on long drive: <45"

His book:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/576101/a-short-history-of-drunkenness-by-mark-forsyth/9780525575375/

Anti-drug campaigns

Anti-drug campaigns

Mad in America podcast

Of potential interest.

See especially Jim van Os podcast. Jim has done more than most to clear up links of cannabis-schizophrenia, but uncertainties remain. Some of the uncertainties disappear if you re-conceptualize a schizophrenia pychosis as a dimension of 'hyper-meaning.' But would you get much news coverage or citation impact if yo report than cannabis use is followed by an upward shift on the dimension of hyper-meaning?

P.s. Many of the interviewees are not based in the U.S.

Mendelian Randomization?

How does MR differ in any substantive way from econometrics' "Instrumental Variables" Approach?

JAMA Psychiatry

Estimating its effect

Do you know how to do it?

If not, why not?

Heroin tales