Sunday, March 18, 2012

Trek beginnings

I am a Otolaryngologist with a fellowship in Head and Neck surgery (cancer surgery). I am doing a trek across America after graduation starting July 2nd. We are starting in Washington D.C. and will end up in Grants Pass Oregon. We will be following the Luis and Clark trail across the top of the United States. All who would like to participate are welcome. Since so far it is a trek with my brother in law and myself, more detail will be pounded out in the next upcoming months before the ride.

I am creating a web page. I will be placing a day by day synopsis of the ride with a link for people to donate to the Oral cancer cause. I will contact Fox news to draw attention to the cause as well.

Please feel free to contact me at huffari@yahoo.com

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Drugs...legalize or not to legalize that is the question.

So, Maybe we should legalize all drugs. How our nation would plummet into non-productivity ... faster than the hell bent comet we are straddling already.

  • Today, more than 6 million Americans are abusing prescription drugs—that is more than the number of Americans abusing cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, and inhalants, combined.
  • Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that opioid prescription painkillers now cause more drug overdose deaths than cocaine and heroin combined.
  • Today more new drug users have begun abusing pain relievers (2.4 million) than marijuana (2.1 million) or cocaine (1.0 million).