Bitter News, 9-4-09
Headlines from the Bitter Newsroom: • When not rocking and rolling all night, Gene Simmons has found time to play an ambulance-chasing lawyer in the new movie Extract from Beavis and Butthead creator...
View ArticleMy Boss Asked Me To Score Some Weed
Q) I’m an attorney five years out at a nondescript law firm in a forgettable city. In other words, I’m just a lawyer, nothing special, nothing big, and I like it that way. I’ve had a colorful past but...
View ArticleAdderall: The Intellectual’s Steroids
Quite a few law students abuse Adderall and other “study drugs.” There is an epidemic of high school students using non-prescription drugs in order to focus during exams and study for long stretches...
View ArticleBitter Vault: The Adderall Diaries
While were on the subject of Adderall and because it’s time to open the Bitter Vault, let’s take a look at the other side. See the link below. Sure, on paper it may not be ethical or “right” to use...
View ArticleNews Update: Secrets to an Exciting Commute
Secret #1: Aerosol Keyboard Cleaner. Does your morning commute suck? Always getting stuck in the slow lane? Maybe you try to brighten your day with a kickass playlist. Karlie Casey, 19, went a...
View ArticleWhat Happens When a Crackhead Goes Through Security?
They say, “stupid is as stupid does” and that goes double for William Gillespie. The 29-year-old Erie, Pennsylvania man was arrested for possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver...
View ArticleLove Struck Man Lands Himself in Custody
Apparently, police officers tased a man yesterday just for trying to propose to his maybe his girlfriend . . . My theories are 1) he was really really high on drugs, 2) this is her way of breaking up...
View ArticleDad, How Old Do I Have to Be to Smoke Pot?
Legally, that is. This question came about over dinner as we talked about a kid at Max’s school who had been expelled for having marijuana in her locker, or so Max had heard. Being a fairly...
View ArticleFDA to Distribute Free Zoloft to Exasperated Parents
In an effort to bring relief to millions of parents dealing with school closings and dangerously low temperatures that keep kids indoors, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a limited...
View ArticleWhich Ten Drugs In Your Medicine Cabinet Are Going to Give You Alzheimer’s?
We’ve actually known for a while that a certain type of drug might have unique risks in terms of promoting mental decline in the elderly. There was a meta-analysis done in 2014 that offered the cheery...
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