The #MeToo phenomenon looked to the first glance a bit like a “moral snapback” in Hollywood, as it appeared that the years of hidden sexual perversity and predatory behavior was being revealed so that it might be stopped.
I was talking with a friend of mine, a top congressional staffer, the other day about a drunk congressman. He mentioned-- without judgment-- that it would be easier and far quicker to make a list of sober members of Congress than a list of the alcoholics serving in that branch.
Marc Kasowitz personal attorney of President Donald Trump makes a statement at the National Press Club, following the testimony of former FBI Director James Comey in Washington, June 8, 2017. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
This story has been updated with a response from a spokesman for Marc Kasowitz.
Marc Kasowitz, President Trump’s personal attorney on the Russia case, threatened a stranger in a string of profanity-laden emails Wednesday night.
Researchers at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom are looking for volunteers to be injected with ketamine to evaluate whether or not it can be used as a treatment for alcoholism.
The common party drug has already been involved in research on pain and depression and it has been found that it is has helped both issues. The project, entitled KARE (Ketamine for Reduction of Alcoholic Relapse), is funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and Innovate UK.
To initiate a war of aggression…, said the Nuremberg Tribunal judges in 1946, is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.
Millions of people in the United States and abroad suffer from alcoholism, having difficulty controlling their urge to drink heavily. However, scientists say that they have now identified a particular neuron that once activated, can help a person stop drinking alcohol. The team at Texas A&M University is confident that this could be a huge step forward in the fight against alcoholism, and may even work to prevent people from drinking in the first place.
As DNAinfo New York's Kathleen Culliton reports, "New Yorkers celebrated liberally on Twitter."by KenBelieve it or not, here in the Empire State -- including your Big Apple -- it has heretofore been illegal to booze up your Sunday brunch if you're brunching before noon.
The implant reduces the pleasures and highs associated with alcohol consumption.
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According to a long-standing myth (and it IS a myth), drinking lots of coffee can sober you up if you’re drunk. While coffee can’t bring you back to reality or fix a sick liver, it may protect the organ against damage.
If only there was a way to magically “shut off” our cravings for all of our vices. Some kind of pill or shot that just took it all away…
It sounds very sci-fi, but it’s close to becoming a reality.
U.K. researchers are preparing to investigate whether hormones found in the gut could help people beat their addictions, and stop people who have given up smoking, drinking, and even overeating from relapsing into their bad habits.
