A recent study published in the American Journal of Public Health found that delinquent, non-Hispanic whites are more likely to abuse "hard drugs," such as cocaine or opiates, than their black counterparts, which might be news for some Americans. But for many blacks across the nation, the study confirms what was already known. The study, which took place over 12 years, found that the rates of hard drug abuse was "highest among non-Hispanic whites, followed by Hispanics then African-Americans."

The research found that whites were more than 30 times likely to have cocaine-use disorder, 50 times more likely to develop opiate-use disorder, and 18 times more likely have PCP-use disorder than blacks.

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Dark Buddhism is an integration of Zen Buddhism and Ayn Rand's Objectivism, with the psychology of self-esteem being the glue which binds the two together into a cohesive whole.

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This Twitter bot replaces every instance of “God” in Joel Osteen’s tweets with “Your Dick”.

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This video of the first ever public performance of Purple Rain is pretty great.

What makes it special is that it's the actual basis for the studio track. They took that live performance, cut a verse and chorus, added strings and sweetened it up overall. But the core of it is that live track. You can hear noises and voices in the official release that turn out to be crowd noises. You can seem him figuring out that classic closing guitar solo, etc.. Pretty wild.

Human beings exist largely to create and consume derp.

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Bernie Sanders says he has not yet read the 28 pages that are redacted from a congressional report on 9/11 that a number of lawmakers are demanding be declassified -- even though he has access to the pages.

Asked in an interview on "CBS This Morning" if he should read them if he's running to be commander-in-chief, Sanders said, "The difficulty is, you see then, if you read them, then you're gonna ask me a question, you're gonna say, 'You read them, what's in them?' And now I can tell you honestly I have not."

My biggest problem with second hand smoke is how it pungently reminds me that so much of the air we inhale is air that was exhaled from someone else, seconds ago.

I’d fantasized about really understanding other people’s emotional world. I imagined a world of sweetness and light — emotions I’d been missing all my life. But when it happened, the reality showed me what a fool I’d been. Now, I could look at a person and sense all their emotions. And most were downers.

What It’s Like to ‘Wake Up’ From Autism

But is it a religion? And does Cavanaugh’s professed belief in an all-powerful clump of pasta and meatballs grant him the freedom not to follow certain legal restrictions in much the same way that the owners of Hobby Lobby do not need to provide their employees with birth control coverage?This question, Gerrard writes, turns out to be much more difficult than it initially may seem. “Candidly,” the judge admits in his opinion, “propositions from existing caselaw are not particularly well-suited for such a situation, because they developed to address more ad hoc creeds, not a comprehensive but plainly satirical doctrine.”

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