Alcohol and the Harrison Narcotic Law

The Law of Unintended Consequences: Illicit for Licit Narcotic Substitution

The dealers will not use it. Heroin dealers have explicit knowledge of the addictive properties of their product. The heroin addict is no longer the desperate character living under a bridge. She is a 17-year-old high school senior who runs out of her grandmother’s oxycodone. He is the stockbroker who weighs the economics of purchasing one oxymorphone on the street for $100 or ten doses of hero...

The Harrison Bergeron olympics.

We appreciate Bermon and colleagues’ (2013) engagement with our critical reflection on the new hyperandrogenism policies from the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) (Karkazis et al. 2012) and thank them for characterizing it as “exceptionally thoughtful and thorough.” In the spirit of continued dialogue, we would observe that ...

Harrison 21_3

The expression of certain CD44 variants has been linked with metastasis and tumour progression. In particular, high molecular weight forms of CD44 show restricted expression in tumours and may correlate with tumour development and metastasis. In this study, we examined the expression of CD44 variants in prostate cancer cell lines: the invasive PC-3 and DU-145, low invasive LNCaP, and two non-in...

Ann Harrison

The first Harrison Lecture, 1974. The life and times of Colonel Harrison.

There are some of them who have left a name so that men declare their praise, and there are some who have no memorial, who have perished as though they had not lived." Ecclesiasticus, 44, v. 1 It is said that the devil quotes scripture for his purposes, so may I be allowed to open with that quotation from the Book of Ecclesaisticus. Or, perhaps even more suitable for our purpose is the same tho...