Darwin Digest Episode 16: High Risk Behaviours 6/18/16

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This week on the Darwin Digest Lawrence Drake, Cathy Princess and Soap Merchant discuss an unholy trinity of high risk behaviors, namely sex, drugs and gambling 0.00.53 HIV http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/index.html 0.05.04 SMALL CORRECTION Homosexuality was removed in DSM-II not DSM-IV in 1973 0.08.20 Risk factors associated with STD transmission (particularly HIV) 0.09.30 Bimbi & Parsons, 2005; Sheon & Crosby, 2004 and Halkitis & Parsons, 2003 0.10.57 http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/poverty.html 0.12.02 The effect of not perceiving HIV as a death sentence. Janz & Becker 1984 0.14.51 The Sydney Bloodbank Cohort 0.17.34 32 bit deletion in the gene that codes for CCR5 aka CCR5-Δ32 0.24.16 A couple of quick corrections regarding CCR5 from Galvani and Slatkin 2003 0.25.43 Syphilis and MSM 0.26.43 See below for the passage I didn’t read out * 0.28.17 Gonorrhea 0.29.34 Small rant about antibiotic resistance and Quorum Sensing 0.31.23 Finishing up all that depression on the lighter side of things and then back into degeneracy 0.45.04 Drugs, a brief overview of their mechanism and effects. 0.52.36 Alcoholism and drugs in Australia 0.54.31 Racial differences in drug use 0.57.40 IQ differences in drug use 1.23.26 Gambling and the motivation to gamble 1.29.21 The Compensatory hypothesis 1.34.17 Skinner boxes 1.45.56 Ethnic differences in gambling 1.52.18 http://www.amren.com/news/2016/06/genetic-variations-linked-with-social-economic-success/ 1.56.45 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajps.12216/full *The prevalence of P&S; syphilis was 10.4% among MSM living with HIV and 3.5% among HIV-negative MSM. Among MSM living with HIV, urethral gonorrhea positivity was 11.4%, pharyngeal gonorrhea positivity was 6.7%, and rectal gonorrhea positivity was 12.4% (compared to 8.6%, 7.4%, and 5.5%, respectively, among HIV-negative MSM). Among MSM living with HIV, urethral chlamydia positivity was 6.1% and rectal chlamydia positivity was 12.1% (compared to 5.7% and 7.5%, respectively, among HIV-negative MSM). Most videos on the Andy Addams channel are still up: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMwAyJaLUS5v4GvsBBbZCZQ