Ketamine Infusions Could Help People Quit Alcohol: Study

  • Ketamine infusions with psychological therapy could represent “hope” for alcohol misuse, scientists say.
  • Ketamine and therapy cut the risk of relapse by 2.7 times at six months, the study authors said.
  • It won’t work for everyone and others might need “top ups”, the scientists cautioned.

An infusion of the widely-used anesthetic ketamine could represent “new hope” in the treatment of millions of people with alcohol problems, scientists studying the drug said. 

People with severe alcohol problems who were given ketamine infusions alongside psychological therapy quit drinking for longer than those who received a standard treatment for alcoholism, according to the findings of a study published Tuesday in the American Journal of Psychiatry.

The risk of relapse in the group that received ketamine-plus-therapy at six months was 2.7 times less than in those who received a placebo plus alcohol cessation education, researchers from University of Exeter and

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4 Cryptos Below $1 That Could Go Parabolic in 2022, Says Investor

  • Timothy Ruth focuses on investing in undervalued blockchain protocols with solid fundamentals. 
  • He looks for global issues and then figures out which projects will address these problems. 
  • Ruth then examines their market cap and determines whether there’s a lot of room for growth. 

Timothy Ruth began investing in stocks in 2007, but after witnessing bitcoin’s explosive growth in 2019 he began to take a serious interest in the crypto market. He realized that regardless of how volatile the burgeoning cryptocurrency was, bitcoin’s chart was still predictable. 

While Ruth was getting his bachelor’s degree in quantitative economics from the Naval Academy, he had access to a career starter loan — a chunk of money he used to invest in stocks. That is, until he got completely wrecked during the 2008 stock-market crash.

After that, a professor at the academy who was also a successful trader offered to teach him and some

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DeSantis Asked If People Got Tested for Illness Before COVID-19

  • Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis this week asked if people ever got tested for illness prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. 
  • His comments sparked confusion online, with many pointing out common preventative screenings for diseases like cancer.
  • DeSantis recently faced criticism for allowing around one million COVID-19 tests to expire in a warehouse. 

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday raised eyebrows when at a press conference he asked whether people got screened for illness prior to the COVID-19 pandemic during a speech where he railed against testing for the coronavirus.

“Now think about it,” DeSantis said Friday. “Before COVID did anyone go out and seek testing to determine if they were sick? It’s usually you feel like you’re sick and you get tested to determine what you maybe have come down with.” 

A clip of DeSantis’ remarks shared to Twitter elicited numerous responses that pointed out preventive screenings

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3 Reasons Everyone’s Quitting Jobs, According to Biden Labor Secretary

  • In November, 4.5 million workers quit their jobs, including 1 million in leisure and hospitality.
  •  It further cemented 2021 as the year of quitting, with eight months of nearly record quits.
  • The labor head said workers may be seeking better jobs or dealing with virus and childcare concerns.

The past year cemented a new American pastime: quitting your job.

For eight months, workers left at nearly record highs. In November, the most recent month that the Bureau of Labor Statistics has released data for, a record 4.5 million workers said, “I quit.” That’s 3% of the whole workforce.

One big clue as to why so many Americans are leaving their jobs comes from who, exactly, is quitting. A record-breaking 1 million leisure and hospitality left their jobs in November, with low-wage sectors disproportionately leading departures. With hiring still robust, that suggests that the pay of many

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Adam Kinzinger Says Being a Member of Congress Doesn’t ‘Protect You From the DOJ’

  • Adam Kinzinger says his colleagues shouldn’t be able to hide from subpoenas.
  • Multiple House Republicans were in contact with Trump on January 6, 2021.
  • The committee investigating the insurrection wants to know about what happened.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger said on Thursday that being a member of Congress does not protect a lawmaker from possible subpoenas or even Justice Department action, an opinion that comes as the Capitol riot committee weighs how it should treat its colleagues who were in touch with President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021.

“In my mind, we need this information and we need this information pretty ricky tick,” Kinzinger, a Republican from Illinois, told The Washington Post’s Jacqueline Alemany on the first anniversary of the January 6 insurrection. “If members of Congress knew what was going to happen or had an inkling of what was going to happen, that’s important both

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