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abrad84
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Trinity College offers ecstasy users cash to partake in study (IE)
#5254991 - 02/02/06 12:23 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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From The Irish Mirror 2/2/2006
The countrys top university is offering students 30Euro-a-time to experiment on them. And last night anti-drugs campaigners reacted with fury after it emerged trinity College Dublin is trying to recruit teenage guinea pigs who regularly use the drug. Grainne Kenny from Europe Against Drugs said she was "gobsmacked" at the project. She pointed out that those eligable to take part are dicing with death adding "This is not the type of research that should be used for human subjects". Fliers have been distributed in the capital asking for "right-handed" volunteers for the two-hour test. Researchers want to examine the effects the drug has on the mind. It is understood that at least 60 long-term ecstasy have already answered the ad. Staff at the psychology department have confirmed the existence of the research program., which is being funded by the Health Research Board within the college. The post-graduate student leading the research has said the project was the best way to find out how ecstasy affects its users. Gloria Roberts, who has a masters degree in neuropharmacology, said the student population is the ideal testing ground. She said the only way to find out more about the drug was by testing long-term users. But Grainne Kenny added "What are they at? I can't believe what is going on at Trinity College" "What happens if some long-term user dies trying to get himself an extra 30Euro"
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Re: Trinity Cillege offers ecstasy users cash to partake in study (IE) [Re: abrad84]
#5255001 - 02/02/06 12:24 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Trinity College defends paying students to take part in ecstasy tests http://www.unison.ie/breakingnews/index.php3?ca=9&si=86401&breakingnews=1
A senior lecturer from Trinity College this afternoon defended the university's decision to pay students who regularly use ecstasy ?30 to take part in trials on the drug.
Anti-drug campaigners have claimed this could encourage students to take the banned substance.
Doctor Howard Smith, head of the School of Psychology at Trinity, said there was no question of the college administering the drug to anyone, and that they didn't take the decision lightly.
"There is a slight dilemma, and I must admit we discussed it ourselves, concerning offering some kind of incentive to people to take part in a study," he said, "but you know if you're going to find out what the effects of these drugs are you have to get the people who take them to come forward and be tested."
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Re: Trinity Cillege offers ecstasy users cash to partake in study (IE) [Re: abrad84]
#5255338 - 02/02/06 01:28 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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"What happens if some long-term user dies trying to get himself an extra 30Euro"
When has anyone within a proper environment and preparation ever died from MDMA?
-------------------- "What is in us that turns a deaf ear to the cries of human suffering?" "Belief is a beautiful armor But makes for the heaviest sword" - John Mayer Making the noise "penicillin" is no substitute for actually taking penicillin. "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." -Abraham Lincoln
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Re: Trinity Cillege offers ecstasy users cash to partake in study (IE) [Re: dblaney]
#5256387 - 02/02/06 05:50 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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I did an MDMA study at Vanderbilt University and I was payed $100 for my participation. I had to get MRI's and all that. I need to find out the results of that...although I'm fairly certain they won't be good as it was funded by NIDA.
I don't see why people are being so pissy about this. Universities do illegal drug studies all the time. You have to pass a drug test clean to participate, so it's not like someone has to roll the night before their test or something.
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Re: Trinity Cillege offers ecstasy users cash to partake in study (IE) [Re: kindadank]
#5258157 - 02/03/06 02:18 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Sign me up boss. I would love to get some pure stuff.
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Re: Trinity Cillege offers ecstasy users cash to partake in study (IE) [Re: blackout]
#5258638 - 02/03/06 09:54 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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I have this visual in my head of this for some reason 
I would love to get some pure stuff.
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Re: Trinity Cillege offers ecstasy users cash to partake in study (IE) [Re: Boom]
#5261736 - 02/04/06 06:46 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Hmmm
I dont think the study anywhere mentions they will supply the drug to the students...
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abrad84
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Re: Trinity Cillege offers ecstasy users cash to partake in study (IE) [Re: Psiloman]
#5262099 - 02/04/06 10:18 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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More stupidity from the Joe Duffy Show (The same show that was effectively was the cause of the mushrooms ban in Ireland.) http://www.rte.ie/rams/radio/latest/Thu/rte-liveline.smil
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