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5/29/12

The cocaine problem in the United States is really because of me. There was no cocaine before Easy Rider on the street. After Easy Rider, it was everywhere. - Dennis Hopper

Excited Delirium

Excited delirium is a brain disorder.

This disorder is usually drug-related (cocaine or "crack", PCP or "angel dust", methamphetamine, amphetamine), but can occur in non-drug users as well.

The presentation of excited delirium occurs with a sudden onset, with symptoms of bizarre and/or aggressive behavior, shouting, paranoia, panic, violence toward others, unexpected physical strength, and hyperthermia. Hyperthermia is a harbinger of death in these cases.

Neurochemical systems in the brain are abnormal in this disorder. At the molecular level, excited delirium is characterized by dysregulated dopamine transporters (hyperdopaminergic state), elevated heat shock proteins (hyperthermia), and immediate early gene activation as a marker of paranoid aggression (c-fos protein). These molecular changes serve as biomarkers of the disorder.

While many factors are associated with sudden death in individuals requiring restraint for excited delirium, these individuals develop a disturbance in thought, behavior and mood, and become agitated and violent. This abnormal behavioral state is due to CNS mechanisms which are the cause of lethality. The brain controls the heart and respiration. Abnormal brain activity leads to the psychosis and sudden death

http://www.exciteddelirium.org/

5/8/12

Abbey of Thelema

Fresco in Aleister Crowley's Thelema Abbey, Corfù, Sicily

1/17/12

Terry Richardson

7/30/11

7/1/11

6/15/11

bloodsports

Drug traffickers in Mexico have been abducting bus passengers and forcing them to fight each other like gladiators with the winners being ordered to become assassins, a drug trafficker tells the Houston Chronicle. The fights, initiated by members of the Zetas cartel, are called "Who's going to be the next hitman?" said the trafficker, who agreed to talk to the Chronicle on condition of anonymity. The gladiators use machetes, hammers and sticks. "They cut guys to pieces," the paper quotes the trafficker as saying. The winners are sent by the Zetas on suicide missions to shoot up the territory of rivals, the trafficker told the Chronicle. The losers end up in mass graves.

6/7/11

Chemical monologue

"American Gigolo is a film about surfaces, about a man who lives on the surface, who can’t look into himself, who takes cocaine in order to get dressed." (Paul Schrader)

Rush rush to the yeyo

5/16/11

Allegedly

On Acid:

On Cocaine:

On Heroin:

On PCP:

On Amphetamines:

4/7/11

Lohan Noir

3/8/11

they come in grams—cocaine

Andy Warhol, A, A Novel

3/4/11

Welcome to the glamorous world of cocaine

Helmut Newton, 1988

1/31/11

36 Hours

1/22/11

up in smoke

"NYU dorm-dwellers got a little more than their money's worth from the Village Voice newspapers in their corner honor boxes: business cards advertising a massive, 24-hour drug delivery service. A pair of enterprising entrepeneurs advertised their delivery service by removing stacks of the free papers from their honor boxes, paper-clipping a business cards to each one, then returning them to the box, officials said. A four-month investigation revealed that the service delivered marijuana and low-cost but high-grade cocaine to customers' doorsteps, targeting a clientele of university students and the bar crowd in the East Village and Lower East Side." (NYP)