Ted Alvarez on February 6, 2008 4:23 PM
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Rock n' rollers have had unprejudiced access to the mind-expanding potential of drugs as fuel for inspiration for decades — why shouldn't Silicon Valley wondernerds have the same options?
Silicon Valley blog Valley Wag reports on an insider who says that OC-80 (that's oxycontin in an 80-milligram dose) has swept the valley by storm, seducing "everyone who's anyone" with its "much better than cocaine" effects. The expensive highs can cost $70 per pill at retail prices and $40 in bulk. Allegedly users get docs from the more permissive burg of L.A. to FedEx the prescription medication in its highest dose to their offices. Then it's scrape the green coating, crush, snort and on to some righteous beta testing! Saith Silicon Valley's Deep Throat:
You have no idea (or maybe you do) the amount of prescription painkillers flowing in Silicon Valley. If you think that Hollywood has drug problems, the Valley is way, way worse. It's just that people keep it much more secret.
A follow-up tip from another insider posits that OC use might have even contributed to the much-reported decline of Yahoo. I'm sure Microsoft will clean up the place...right after this last toot of OC. (What, those Yahoo guys practically left it on the counter!)
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Ted Alvarez on December 13, 2007 3:13 PM
Well, well, well: In news that surprises no one except perhaps cry-baby Barry Bonds, former Senator George Mitchell’s investigation into steroid use in Major League Baseball connects several top players to continual anabolic steroid use, including monster players like Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, Ken Caminiti, Jose Canseco, Jason Giambi, Juan Gonzalez, Mo Vaughn, Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmiero and Miguel Tejada. From the NY Times:
“For more than a decade there has been widespread anabolic steroid use,” Mitchell said in a news conference announcing the results of a 20-month investigation he led at the behest of Major League Baseball. (...) “Each of the 30 clubs had a player or players involved in taking illegal substances (...) Everybody in baseball — commissioners, club officials, the players’ association, players — shares responsbility,” Mitchell said. “I can’t be any clearer than that.”
The report also cited a rising use of human growth hormone and MLB's incredibly slow steps to stop it. Last time I checked, most baseball players didn't have pharmacology degrees, so there's a whole lotta cheating going on.
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