Opinion

NAC supplement helps curb cravings to smoke

NAC supplement helps curb cravings to smoke

NAC supplement helps curb cravings to smoke

DEAR DR. ROACH: I’d like to have your thoughts on what value the NAC supplement may have in reducing cravings for marijuana or nicotine? I’m 73 and have been smoking marijuana daily since I was 21. Now I’m quitting for health reasons.
MOMENTS IN TIME

MOMENTS IN TIME

MOMENTS IN TIME

On April 1, 1999, David Smith was arrested and charged with originating the “Melissa” email virus, which infected more than a million computers worldwide and caused more than $80 million in damage. ■ On March 28, 2000, racial tensions showed no signs of abating in the African country of Zimbabwe...

How will we be led?

To the Editor: Thomas Paine wrote, “These are the times that try men’s souls.” He had to contend with but a monarch, King George III, not an autocrat. Nowadays, it seems autocracy is perhaps fashionable within some spheres, mainly the Republican Party.

Fentanyl testing strips legal and widely used in Michigan

New dollars distributed to groups fighting substance abuse can be used to purchase strips that test whether drug dealers cut heroin or other street drugs with often-deadly fentanyl. The simple paper strips are illegal in some 20 states.
Statins and thiazides acutely increase blood sugar, risk of diabetes

Statins and thiazides acutely increase blood sugar, risk of diabetes

Statins and thiazides acutely increase blood sugar, risk of diabetes

DEAR DR. ROACH: My question regards the results of my fasting glucose tests for the past couple of years. I am 81 and weigh around 150 pounds. The medications I am taking concern me, with relevance to the A1C levels of my quarterly blood work.

My Jimmy Carter Story

To the Editor: Hearing that former President Jimmy Carter is near the end of life in hospice care, I recalled one of my favorite memories of an encounter with Carter in 1996.
MOMENTS IN TIME

MOMENTS IN TIME

MOMENTS IN TIME

On Feb. 27, 1693, England’s first women’s magazine, The Ladies Mercury, debuted.