POPPERS: New Update with Current Information

INDEX TO UPDATED INFORMATION ABOUT POPPERS (called "nitrite inhalants" by some)

-- NEWSLINE, Volume 3, Issue 1 • February 1997
Stephen J. O'Brien, Ph.D. Director, Laboratory of Genomic Diversity
National Cancer Institute National Institutes of Health Frederick, MD

-- What About the Relationship Between Alkyl Nitrites and KS?

-- The Art of Scientific Scrutiny: Investigating the Poppers-AIDS Hypothesis

-- Kinsey Institute: Poppers and AIDS

-- Journal of Psychoactive Drugs: Psychosexual Aspects of the Volatile Nitrites (Poppers)

-- U.S. government studys, including those done by the U.S. Senate and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

-- Alkyl Nitrites study: Congress requested that NIDA, conduct a study of alkyl nitrite poppers to determine the extent and public risk associated with alkyl nitrite use.

-- Poppers and AIDS: The Story Behind A Prominent AIDS Researcher's Disgust With the Anti-Poppers Campaign

-- Fueling the hysteria surrounding the use of volatile nitrites or "poppers"

-- "The controversy over poppers"

-- Poppers: Less Than Meets the Eye

-- Popper critics lose “credibility” when they drag out their old/ancient/never-documented assertion that “poppers=death”.

-- MEDICAL NEWS WEEKLY: My way with angina victims

-- Poppers in perspective: There is no evidence that sniffing poppers causes significant effects on the immune (or defense) systems of the body. T4 cells (the cells attacked by HIV) may be affected by inhaling poppers but then these cells are known to be affected by the time of day or exercise and a hundred other factors including diet.

-- A Guide to Alkyl Nitrites and Poppers: Statements of Fact

-- "Alkyl nitrite "poppers" are a relatively minor part of the overall drug abuse problem in the United States."

-- The Poppers Story -- the History of Nitrite Odorants: Alkyl Nitrite Poppers

-- A Critical Review of Hank Wilson’s Bibliography of Anti-Popper Research

-- Discovering the Cause of AIDS

-- AIDS Denialists: Anti-Popper Zealots

-- Historical Background on Poppers

"A zealot is someone who can't change his mind, and who won't change the subject", Sir Winston Churchill