Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, was once one of cocaine’s leading medical advocates.

<p><img alt="" height="258" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-LPKzhlYmFnc/TjHzCUDoJyI/AAAAAAAAJPQ/hCZuJI4YK70/%25255BUNSET%25255D.jpg" style="float: left;" width="195" />Whenever Big Pharma unfurls its latest “blockbuster” drug, I am carried back to the era when the biggest wonder drug on the market was cocaine. Yes, cocaine!<br /><br />In the early 1880s, pharmaceutical houses touted it as a cure for everything from morphine addiction and depression to dyspepsia and fatigue. It was widely available in tonics, powders, wines and soft drinks before its mass consumption created a cadre of raging addicts demanding medical attention.<br /><br />One of cocaine’s leading medical advocates was a struggling Viennese neurologist named Sigmund Freud. He began studying cocaine’s effects in 1884, and his clinical notebooks amply demonstrate that his favorite experimental subject was himself.<br /><br />The evolution of the once 'wonder drug'<br /><br />Initially, Sigmund was eager to employ cocaine as an antidote for his best friend’s morphine addiction. Ernst Fleischl-Marxow was a brilliant physiologist who injured his thumb while dissecting a cadaver, resulting in chronic pain tamed only by large doses of morphine.<br /><br />Substituting one addictive drug for another was a common means of treating substance abuse in the late 19th century. What all these well-intentioned games of medical musical chairs did most reliably was to create “new and improved” addicts.<br /><br />Freud, in essence, transformed his highly functioning, albeit opiate-dependent, friend into an addled cocaine and morphine addict who was dead seven years later at age 45.<br /><br />One would think that this episode would have soured Freud on the drug. Yet like most humans ensnared by cocaine’s addictive grip, for the next 12 years, he continued to sing its praises and consumed a great deal of cocaine to quell his physical aches and mental anxieties. In a perverse way, Freud loved how cocaine made him talk endlessly about memories and experiences he previously thought were locked in his brain for no one to hear, let alone judge.<br /><br />Freud’s most haunting encounter with the drug occurred in 1895 after he and a colleague named Wilhelm Fleiss nearly killed a patient named Emma Eckstein with a botched operation and too much cocaine. Several nights later, he had a disturbing dream about a party where Eckstein blamed Freud for his gross negligence.<br /><br />Today, Eckstein is better known as “Irma," the pseudonym Freud gave her in his masterpiece, "The Interpretation of Dreams." When writing about his dream, Freud glossed over his obvious malpractice, an act that today would have resulted in disgrace, loss of medical license, lawsuits and even jail time.<br /><br />Instead, Freud explained the dream meant he was a caring doctor who was, if anything, overly concerned about his patient, “Irma."<br /><br />Like so many others, Freud suffered from the most maddening symptom of addiction: the stealthy process by which the addict’s mind conspires to convince that nothing, nothing at all, is askew or dangerous about something that most decidedly is.<br /><br />Indeed, if one set out to design addiction as an implacable disease, he would be hard pressed to come up with a more diabolical symptom than denial, the need to lead a double life – feeding the addiction in private while struggling to starve, or at least conceal, it in public for long periods of time.<br /><br />Until, that is, the addiction completely takes over with disastrous results and public masquerade is no longer possible.<br /><br />One assumes that his clinical experiences with Eckstein, if not Fleischl-Marxow, taught him that cocaine was far too dangerous for any therapeutic application. In the fall of 1896, the day after his father’s funeral, Freud claimed to have put his “cocaine brush” aside. No documentary evidence exists to refute his testimony.<br /><br />But for the remaining days of his life, Freud had far greater difficulty in fully comprehending the dangerous consequences of his substance abuse. He decidedly, and repeatedly, misinterpreted his famous dream of cocaine. Instead, he chose to elaborate a far more flattering and positive analysis that epitomizes an addiction’s power of subterfuge.<br /><br />The man who invented psychoanalysis, a revolutionary pursuit for self-truth, succumbed to the same “big lie” most every practicing addict tells himself every day.</p><p> </p>

Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, was once one of cocaine’s leading medical advocates.

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We may not have found God particle after all, admits Hadron chief

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container zemanta-img" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CMS_Higgs-event.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: clear:left;"><img alt="An example of simulated data modelled for the ..." border="0" class="zemanta-img-inserted" height="277" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/CMS_Higgs-event.jpg/300px-CMS_Higgs-event.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="300" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center; width: 300px;">An example of simulated data modelled for the CMS particle detector on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Here, following a collision of two protons, a is produced which decays into two jets of hadrons and two electrons. The lines represent the possible paths of particles produced by the proton-proton collision in the detector while the energy these particles deposit is shown in blue. (Photo credit: <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CMS_Higgs-event.jpg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)</td></tr> </tbody></table> Fevered speculation about the discovery of the so-called "God particle" by physicists at Europe's underground atom-smasher experiment is premature, according to the director general of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) near Geneva.<br /><br />Professor Rolf Heuer said yesterday that his scientists had detected "intriguing fluctuations" in the data gathered by Cern's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which is searching for the elusive Higgs boson, a subatomic particle predicted by Professor Peter Higgs of Edinburgh University in the 1960s but so far never detected.<br /><br />Professor Heuer cautioned that the data fluctuations detected by Cern scientists may turn out to have nothing to do with the Higgs boson and could even be random statistical "noise" generated when beams of protons are crashed together within the LHC at velocities just short of the speed of light.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/we-may-not-have-found-god-particle-after-all-admits-hadron-chief-2325940.html"><br /></a><br /> <br /> <div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; 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We may not have found God particle after all, admits Hadron chief

An example of simulated data modelled for the CMS particle detector on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Here, following a collisi...

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You wait millions of years for a God particle to come along, and then two clusters turn up at once.

<p><br />Scientists in the US announced they may have detected the elusive and potentially universe-changing Higgs boson particle yesterday, just two days after rivals in Switzerland signalled that they, too, may have caught their first sight of it.<br /><br />The physicists working away at the Tevatron particle accelerator facility in Illinois may not be as well known as their more illustrious competitors at Cern's Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, but between them the two sets of researchers appear to be breaking new ground in one of the most important scientific mysteries to have puzzled humanity.<br /><br />The Higgs boson sub-atomic particle is a key missing element in the world of particle physics. Under the Standard Model theory of how sub-atomic particles behave and interact, it is the last remaining particle to still have not been found.<br /><br />If it does exist, it would confirm theories as to why some phenomena in the universe have a mass, while others, such as light, do not. If, on the other hand, it turned out the Higgs boson does not exist after all, scientists would have to find an alterative theory to explain mass.<br /><br />To try and find the God particle, as it has come to be known, both the Tevatron and LHC teams have been accelerating beams of particles around tunnels many miles long at extreme speeds, in the hope of producing high-energy collisions that should produce the Higg boson.<br /><br />It was on Friday that the team working on the Cern project said they had detected the first "bumps" in data collected from such collisions, and were followed by similar though not quite as strong results from the Tevatron.<br /><br />The findings were both presented over the weekend at the Europhysics conference in Grenoble, France, but they could be as long as a month away from filtering and final verification, leaving the researchers to emphasise that for the moment they are merely hints. But coming together in such a short space of time as one another and offering similar forms of data, they offer reassurance that the scientists theories are correct – and that the millions of dollars invested in their programmes have been well spent.<br /><br />The particle is named after Professor Peter Higgs, a theoretical particle physicist now in his eighties, who first proposed its existence more than 40 years ago when he was a young theoretical physicist at the University of Edinburgh. He suggested fundamental particles gained mass from an invisible field – compared to a snowfield – that pervades the cosmos and slows them down to different extents.<br /><br />When Higgs first came up with the idea, practically no one took him seriously and even the Cern-based editor of a leading physics journal thought it was too doubtful to be published. Finally, it appears he is on the verge of vindication.</p>

You wait millions of years for a God particle to come along, and then two clusters turn up at once.

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Scientists see evidence of the 'God particle' - the last piece in a theory explaining the universe

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YeRBR0DO7jQ/Tqbrs_R_NEI/AAAAAAAAJt4/14dme28ZgcI/s1600/FRASERine+Small+Web+view.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YeRBR0DO7jQ/Tqbrs_R_NEI/AAAAAAAAJt4/14dme28ZgcI/s1600/FRASERine+Small+Web+view.jpg" /></a></div>Scientists believe they are one step closer to cornering the elusive Higgs boson, or 'God particle' -  a tiny but fundamental element in the construction of life as we know it.<br /> <br /> Research being carried out deep under the mountains on the French-Swiss border has provided the first hard evidence that the theorised particle actually exists.<br /> <br /> At a press conference on Friday, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider particle physics lab near Geneva announced findings of their latest research. <br /> <br /> Scroll down for Higgs boson explanation<br /> <br /> <br /> Large Hadron Collider: Two teams of scientists at the circular accelerator say they have found preliminary evidence of the Higgs boson, or 'God particle'<br /> <br /> <br /> Smashed together: A CMS simulation shows the result of smashing two protons together. Yellow lines show the paths of particles produced by the collision<br /> <br /> Two separate teams, working with different detectors at the collider, reported 'bumps' in their data - usually an indicator of a new discovery.<br /> <br /> Experts were quick to point out, however, that the bumps could also be caused by computer glitches and flaws in data models. <br /> <br /> Fabiola Gianotti, spokeswoman for a 3,000-strong team using detection equipment called Atlas, said: 'We cannot say anything today, but clearly it's intriguing.'<br /> <br /> Her view was shared by Guido Tonelli, spokesman the other team using CMS detectors, who independently discovered bumps in their data as well.<br /> <br /> <br /> More study needed: Scientists from both Atlas and CMS detectors have a bewildering array of data to sift through to find more proof of the Higgs boson<br /> <br /> He said more research was needed to isolate the difference between 'statistical fluctuations or possible hints of a signal'.<br /> <br /> If the bumps are from nature and not man-made error, scientists will have found proof of the last piece in a jigsaw puzzle that forms a theory of how we understand the universe.<br /> <br /> The Higgs boson, or God particle, was first theorised in 1964 to resolve inconsistencies in theoretical physics.<br /> <br /> It is the only part of the Standard Model of particle physics that has not been observed by scientists in experiments.<br /> <br /> The problem with seeing the Higgs boson is that scientists have to slam two tiny particles together at almost the speed of light for it to be created - and even then it will only last for a fraction of a percentage of a second.<br /> <br /> But it leaves behind traces - a 'smoking gun' that  scientists can detect.<br /> <br /> The Higgs boson gets its name from Peter Higgs, a physicist at Edinburgh University, who postulated that fundamental particles gained mass from an invisible field that pervaded the cosmos. <br /> <br /> Nobel prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman nicknamed the boson the 'God particle' in 1993 - which makes it popular in the media but has angered many scientists, including Higgs.

Scientists see evidence of the 'God particle' - the last piece in a theory explaining the universe

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display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/03/there-is-vast-difference-between-being.html" style="display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">There is a vast difference between being "happy" and finding a genuine inner peace that "passes all understanding"</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/05/if-you-realized-how-powerful-your.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="http://i.zemanta.com/172265102_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/05/if-you-realized-how-powerful-your.html" style="display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/06/people-are-afraid-to-connect-with.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="http://i.zemanta.com/noimg_107_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/06/people-are-afraid-to-connect-with.html" style="display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">People are afraid to connect with a Higher Power for two main reasons. 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display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-promises-associated-with-completing.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="http://i.zemanta.com/noimg_117_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-promises-associated-with-completing.html" style="display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The promises associated with completing all twelve steps:</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-shack-is-aa-higher-power.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="http://i.zemanta.com/165301528_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-shack-is-aa-higher-power.html" style="display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Shack is A.A.'s higher power.</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/05/let-me-suggest-that-you-read-shack-if.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="http://i.zemanta.com/165301526_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/05/let-me-suggest-that-you-read-shack-if.html" style="display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Let me suggest that you read The Shack if you haven't.</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2012/07/when-people-believe-in-power-greater.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="http://i.zemanta.com/noimg_83_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2012/07/when-people-believe-in-power-greater.html" style="display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">When people believe in a power greater than themselves it can make life more peaceful.</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"> <a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/?px" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"><img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_h.png?x-id=2d96438e-eb32-49f6-b8d1-255597ca9e35" style="border: none; float: right;" /></a></div> </div>

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