Reader Mail: Correction

April 11, 2008

Count Roland writes in with a comment on this article, in which I evidently had my numbers wrong.

200k in Regina; 1 million in Sask.
Still troubling.

That was a sleepless night you were having, Roland — 2:35 AM on the email timestamp!

At any rate, mistake made and correction duly noted. It is still troubling: basically, the numbers show that the city of handed out 1 needle per citizen per month last year. That’s an epidemic of drug use, and very troubling.

Wired science

April 11, 2008

Many scientists apparently use performance-enhancing drugs. Cognitive boosters, more specifically, often acquried and ingested without benefit of prescription.