In 2020 she led a team of researchers from Roswell Park and the National Center for Environmental Health at the Centers for Disease Control, who were first to report (in The New England Journal of Medicine) that a potentially fatal condition called EVALI E-cigarette or Vaping use-Associated Lung Injury was associated with vitamin E acetate, frequently used as a cutting agent in e-cigarette liquids containing THC, the psychoactive agent in cannabis
Quitting smoking commonly causes heightened anxiety during the withdrawal period (Days 114) this is a direct pharmacological effect of nicotine receptor recalibration as nicotine levels fall
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Benzene used in gasoline, causes several cancers, including leukemia Benzo[a]pyrene this chemical is found in coal tar pitch, and creosote
Combustion destroys roughly 6080% of available THC, so a spliff delivers far less THC than the raw milligram number suggests (though it still hits quickly and feels strong due to fast absorption)
In 2023, nearly 60,000 overdose deaths in the United States involved cocaine and/or psychostimulants , accounting for approximately 57% of all drug overdose deaths that year