Graphic created by bcjung from source: http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/23/health/heroin-opioid-drug-overdose-deaths-visual-guide/
Graphic created by bcjung from source: http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/23/health/heroin-opioid-drug-overdose-deaths-visual-guide/
Graphic created by bcjung from source: http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/23/health/heroin-opioid-drug-overdose-deaths-visual-guide/
Graphic created by bcjung from source: http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/09/09/493130349/college-high-students-are-using-more-marijuana-fewer-opioids
Graphic source: https://store.samhsa.gov/product/advisory-substance-use-disorder-treatment-people-co-occurring-disorders/pep20-06-04-006
CODs=Co-Occuring conditions with substance use
How long drugs stay in your body (Blood - In Hours; Hair and Urine - In days)
Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/heres-long-different-drugs-stay-150000894.html
Map Source: http://www.dtidrugmap.com/
Map graphic created by bcjung from: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/07/us/drug-overdose-deaths-in-the-us.html
A HREF="https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/high-potency-weed-linked-psychotic-episodes-mysterious-vomiting-illness-young-n1273463"> High potency weed linked to psychotic episodes, mysterious vomiting illness in young users 7/2021
Kratom: Unsafe and ineffective
Users swear by kratom for mood enhancement and fatigue reduction, but safety issues and questions about its effectiveness abound.
The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption on January 15, 2022, caused many effects, some illustrated here. The effects were felt around the world and even into space. Image via NASA Goddard/ Mary Pat Hrybyk-Keith.
Graphic source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26544531/
EDCs can act as obesogens, diabetogens, and/or cardiovascular disruptors. For obesogenic effects, EDCs act upon adipocytes and the brain to induce obesity, which generates insulin resistance, glucose intolerance, and dyslipidemia and greatly increases the susceptibility to T2D and CVDs. Additionally, EDCs work as diabetogens that directly affect the islet of Langerhans and increase or decrease normal insulin biosynthesis and release, generating hyper- or hypoglycemia. An excess of insulin signaling, as well as insulin resistance, can result in metabolic syndrome. In animal models, EDCs induce insulin resistance, glucose intolerance, fatty liver, and dyslipidemia on WAT, liver, and skeletal muscle. This generates T2D and CVDs. The EDC BPA has been shown to act directly on the heart, increasing the probability of CVDs in animal models.
Graphic source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26544531/
Stages of normal rat mammary gland (MG) development and effects of environment on subsequent events. Different effects and outcomes after EDC exposure are strongly dependent upon the age of exposure (neonatal period, puberty, pregnancy) and time of analysis. Early-life effects such as altered thelarche or gynecomastia present themselves in adolescents, whereas effects on lactation or mammary tumorigenesis become evident during adulthood. Arrows indicate plausible (gray) or more certain (white) mechanistic pathways. Photomicrographs for early life and puberty were all taken at 16× magnification on a macroscope. [Adapted from R. R. Enoch et al: Mammary gland development as a sensitive end point after acute prenatal exposure to an atrazine metabolite mixture in female Long-Evans rats. Environ Health Perspect. 2007;115:541–547 (884), with permission.] Photomicrographs for pregnancy/lactation and adulthood were taken at 10× magnification on a standard microscope (from S.E.F.). [Reprinted from Figure 1 in R. A. Rudel et al: Environmental exposures and mammary gland development: state of the science, public health implications, and research recommendations. Environ Health Perspect. 2011;119:1053–1061 (801), with permissio
Graphic created from source: http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/14/health/toxic-chemicals-house-dust/
Proposition 65 List The list contains a wide range of naturally occurring and synthetic chemicals that are known to cause cancer or birth defects or other reproductive harm. These chemicals include additives or ingredients in pesticides, common household products, food, drugs, dyes, or solvents.
Graphic source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180822112406.htm
Upper panel a: How air pollution shortens human life expectancy around the world. Lower panel b: Gains in life expectancy that could be reached by meeting World Health Organization guidelines for air quality around the world.
Credit: Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
Air pollution is responsible for these percentages
Graphic source: http://breathelife2030.org/
Earthquakes have risen alongside wastewater injections in Texas. This chart shows earthquakes around the city of Pecos. Red indicates earthquakes. Green is oil production, and blue is wastewater disposal in millions of barrels. (Yellow shows the rise in natural gas production.) Adapted from “The Proliferation of Induced Seismicity in the Permian Basin, Texas” by Robert J. Skoumal and Daniel T. Trugman.
“TILT,” short for Toxicant Induced Loss of Tolerance.
TILT posits that a surprising range of today’s most common chronic conditions are linked to daily exposure to very low doses of synthetic chemicals that have been in mass production since World War II. These include organophosphate pesticides, flame-retardants, formaldehyde, benzene, and tens of thousands of other chemicals.
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