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Too much heat in the kitchen: survey shows toxic work conditions mean many chefs are getting out

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Friday, March 8, 2024

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“Chefs, chefs, chefs!

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“Chefs, chefs, chefs!
Australia is seeing a similar gap, with chefs ranked the eighth most in-demand occupation.
Our study is the first quantitative survey to examine working conditions and mental health issues among chefs in both Australia and New Zealand.
The survey also followed up previous Australian studies, which indicated exploitation was an industry norm, with chefs experiencing burnout and wage theft.

‘Banter, bollockings and beatings’

As one British study titled “Banter, bollockings and beatings” made clear, an often macho culture can prevail, including bizarre induction rituals.
An Australian study published in 2022 showed chefs were significantly more likely than the general population to commit suicide.
And even before the pandemic, the industry’s “toxic” workplace culture was blamed for mental health issues and high suicide rates among employees.
Two-thirds (67%) of respondents worked more than 38 hours weekly, but a fifth of the chefs worked 52-61 hours.

Leaving the industry

Results showed high levels of physical and mental fatigue (“exhausted at work”, “emotionally drained”, “becoming disconnected”).
The majority of respondents said they were likely (with 20% extremely likely) to look for a new employer during the next year.
Read more:
All these celebrity restaurant wage-theft scandals point to an industry norm

Mental health and healthy hospo

The Better Work Action Plan, the first phase of New Zealand’s Tourism Industry Transformation Plan, was launched by MBIE in 2023 under the previous government.
It followed extensive consultation with representatives from hospitality and tourism, Māori, unions, workers and government.
Its aim was to develop a sustainable tourism workforce by addressing longstanding issues of low pay and poor conditions across the sector.
By chance, however, New Zealand’s new minister for mental health, Matt Doocey, is also tourism and hospitality minister.

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

Nitazenes are a powerful class of street drugs emerging across the US

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Thursday, February 15, 2024

Researchers have relatively little information on how the human body reacts to nitazenes because the drugs have never gone through clinical trials.

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Researchers have relatively little information on how the human body reacts to nitazenes because the drugs have never gone through clinical trials.
As law enforcement has cracked down on other drugs such as fentanyl, illegal labs have used historical pharmacology research to formulate analogs of nitazenes as street drugs.
Although nitazenes are now identified as illegal street drugs in numerous countries, many medical providers aren’t even aware they exist.
Nitazenes are also mixed with other street drugs such as heroin and fentanyl and with fake oxycodone pills, without users knowing it.

Using ‘trip killers’ to cut short bad drug trips is potentially dangerous

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Wednesday, February 14, 2024

As interest in psychedelics has grown, so has interest in ways to end a bad trip.

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As interest in psychedelics has grown, so has interest in ways to end a bad trip.
Recent research reveals that people are giving potentially dangerous advice on social media on how to stop a trip that is less than pleasurable.
One of the earliest descriptions of a psychedelic experience in western literature can be found in Aldous Huxley’s 1953 book The Doors of Perception.
Research shows that if someone is in a bad mood or depressed then they are more likely to have a bad trip, as are people who take too high a dose.

Trip killers

Few clinical studies have examined trip killers, but one has found that ketanserin – a drug used to treat high blood pressure – reverses the psychedelic effects of LSD.
A recent article in the Emergency Medical Journal analysed posts on Reddit about trip killers.
Trip killers were discussed most often for LSD (235 posts), magic mushrooms (143 posts) and MDMA (21 posts).

Receptor blocking

To kill a trip then, one simply has to give the drug user another drug that blocks (rather than activates) the 5-HT2A receptor.
Many prescription drugs can do this and they tend to be antipsychotic drugs.
Quetiapine from the list above is one popular example, while another antipsychotic, olanzapine, was mentioned in 14 posts in that study.
Similarly, the atypical antidepressants trazodone and mirtazapine also block the 5-HT2A receptor.

Colin Davidson has previously received funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH, USA) and the European Community for projects related to stimulant drug abuse and novel psychoactive compounds respectively. He is currently a paid consultant with the Defence Science Technology Laboratory (MOD) working on new psychoactive compounds.

Santé's Expert Commentary on the Danger of Tianeptine or "Gas Station Heroin"

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Monday, February 12, 2024

ARGYLE, Texas, Feb. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued a new and urgent warning about using any products, such as Neptune's Fix, that contain tianeptine. They sent a letter on January 11, 2024 to convenience stores, gas stations, vape/smoke shops and other companies advising the retailers to stop selling any tianeptine-containing products. In November, they issued an initial warning and have continued to receive reports on the adverse effects of tianeptine, including seizures, loss of consciousness and death.

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In November, they issued an initial warning and have continued to receive reports on the adverse effects of tianeptine, including seizures, loss of consciousness and death.
There have been reported instances of individuals using tianeptine as an opioid substitute or to self-treat anxiety and depression.
In fact, tianeptine products are being touted "with claims to improve brain function and treat anxiety, depression, pain, opioid use disorder and other conditions.
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"There have been reported instances of individuals using tianeptine as an opioid substitute or to self-treat anxiety and depression.

Ibogaine By David Dardashti Makes Statement on Public Concerns Regarding Fentanyl Distribution

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Sunday, February 11, 2024

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Miami, Feb. 10, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In light of the rising threat of fentanyl distribution in the United States and its ties to China's massive debts, Ibogaine By David Dardashti, a leader in addiction recovery treatment, today released a statement on their position.

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Miami, Feb. 10, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In light of the rising threat of fentanyl distribution in the United States and its ties to China's massive debts, Ibogaine By David Dardashti, a leader in addiction recovery treatment, today released a statement on their position.
"It is clear that something needs to be done," says David Dardashti, owner of Ibogaine By David Dardashti.
"The rising level of fentanyl distribution is a real threat to our communities, one we can no longer ignore.
Ibogaine By David Dardashti Offers Holistic Healing by utilizing unique treatment for every condition being treated.

TikTok’s mob wife aesthetic is far from the harsh reality of women in Italy’s world of organised crime

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Tuesday, February 6, 2024

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She has dedicated her life to him, keeping her family together while he was serving time in different prisons across Italy.

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She has dedicated her life to him, keeping her family together while he was serving time in different prisons across Italy.
Signora Anna is someone who might be called a “mob wife”, but her world and look are galaxies away from the mob wife aesthetic that has become popular on TikTok.
It is a commercial product rather than a reflection of the gritty reality of Italian mafias and organised crime.
From my experience of real mob wives, this lies in direct contradiction of the very essence of mafias.

The real mafia women dress code

Italian mafia wives are different from American mafia wives because a structured Italo-American mafia developed during the 1930s within a different historical context of capitalism and the American dream.
These are glamorous women who appear as trophies on the arms of their men without a care in the world, rather than normal women with daily concerns.
These films also inspired many different images of mafia women that confuse and overlap our understanding of them.
In this way, Italian mafia women have always been portrayed as passive and ignorant bystanders, not visible and loud mob wives.
Important Italian mafia women may like branded clothes, luxury and exotic holidays but they will never show off.

TikTok glorifying the criminal underworld

The use of Instagram and TikTok have exploded among the young.
Naples is a particular hub of TikTok production with many focusing on mafia images, symbols and messages as well as neomelodica music (Italian pop music).
Women are part of this showing off of social status in posts flaunting their latest clothes, their plastic surgery and holiday destinations.
The TikTok trend is fundamentally a distraction from addressing the real hardships that girls and women deal with within organised crime spaces on a daily basis.

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Felia Allum is a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).

Knock Out Opioid Abuse Day Learning Series Returns in 2024

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Wednesday, January 24, 2024

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Millburn, NJ, Jan. 24, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey (PDFNJ), the Office of the New Jersey Coordinator for Addiction Responses and Enforcement Strategies (NJ CARES) and the Opioid Education Foundation of America (OEFA) have renewed their partnership in 2024 and will once again host the Knock Out Opioid Abuse Day Learning Series.

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Millburn, NJ, Jan. 24, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey (PDFNJ), the Office of the New Jersey Coordinator for Addiction Responses and Enforcement Strategies (NJ CARES) and the Opioid Education Foundation of America (OEFA) have renewed their partnership in 2024 and will once again host the Knock Out Opioid Abuse Day Learning Series.
Over the course of 11 webinars from January to December 2024, the series will offer the public more insight and information into the multi-faceted components of the opioid epidemic in New Jersey and around the nation.
The series is a branch of PDFNJ’s Knock Out Opioid Abuse Day statewide initiative, which has been held annually on October 6 since 2016 to educate residents and prescribers on the risks of prescription opioids and to raise awareness of the opioid crisis throughout the state.
To learn more about Knock Out Opioid Abuse Day and for a schedule of webinars, please visit knockoutday.drugfreenj.org .

NarcX+ First to Meet DEA Standards for Destroying Illicit Fentanyl and Rendering It Non-Retrievable

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Tuesday, January 16, 2024

NarcX+ has successfully completed the first independent validation, by a 3rd party criminal laboratory, of its kind by testing its effectiveness against illicit fentanyl tablets and powders.

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NarcX+ has successfully completed the first independent validation, by a 3rd party criminal laboratory, of its kind by testing its effectiveness against illicit fentanyl tablets and powders.
The environmentally safe solution, NarcX+, has been analytically tested using LCMS technology, and proven that after a short amount of time the illicit fentanyl drug is non-detectable and non-retrievable meeting all DEA standards.
The Center for Forensic Science Research & Education (CFSRE), a forensic toxicology and chemistry laboratory, conducted a series of analytical tests by adding illicit fentanyl to NarcX+.
The tests conducted validate that at 5 minutes illicit fentanyl tablets are completely destroyed and non-retrievable.

Kush: what is this dangerous new west African drug that supposedly contains human bones?

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Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Another reason might be the drug content of the bones themselves, if the deceased was a fentanyl or tramadol user.

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Another reason might be the drug content of the bones themselves, if the deceased was a fentanyl or tramadol user.
The drug is reported in both Guinea and Liberia, which share porous land borders with Sierra Leone, making drug trafficking easy.
The danger of the drug is twofold: the risk of self-injury to the drug taker and the highly addictive nature of the drug itself.
The effectiveness of legislation alone is questionable, and many of those who attend the very limited rehabilitation centres return to drug use.

AHN team performs region's first deep brain stimulation therapy to treat opioid addiction

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Saturday, January 13, 2024

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- A multidisciplinary team of physicians at Allegheny Health Network (AHN) is among the first in the nation to safely utilize deep brain stimulation therapy (DBS) to treat a patient suffering from opioid addiction.

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PITTSBURGH, Jan. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- A multidisciplinary team of physicians at Allegheny Health Network (AHN) is among the first in the nation to safely utilize deep brain stimulation therapy (DBS) to treat a patient suffering from opioid addiction.
Led by principal investigator and AHN neurosurgeon Nestor D. Tomycz, MD, the AHN team announced this week that they have successfully implanted an deep brain stimulation (DBS) device in the brain of a 28-year-old New York man with treatment-resistant opioid addiction.
The procedure took place in December at AHN's Allegheny General Hospital, and the patient's ongoing therapy is part of an FDA-approved clinical study.
DBS for opioid-use disorder involves implanting bilateral electrode leads into an area of the brain called the nucleus accumbens – the brain's addiction and reward center.