The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XXII - What the Science Says About Cocaine in the Workplace (EPO President, Mr. Campinos, Please Take Note)
What the science says
Today's EPO is not about science [1, 2] (monopolies curtail progress), but for anybody who still cares about science and about the EPO let's consider what the greedy management does to examiners and other staff at the Office.
This paper, which problematically links to Elsevier, says what Campinos brought to the Office and keeps in the Office (and keeps secret):
In a nutshell, the managers may as well be nutcases. But if Campinos dates the sister of the nutcases (romance), then it's fine. It's family.
"Cocaine use in the US exacts a heavy toll," says another publication that is less than a year old (published the same month the "brother-in-law" of Campinos got arrested for cocaine). It says that cocaine use is "extending far beyond individual health risks to create profound social effects of cocaine. This analysis delves into these often-overlooked consequences. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) provides crucial data for understanding the scope of the problem. Studies focusing on communities impacted by substance abuse reveal increased crime rates, straining law enforcement resources. Family support systems also suffer, as the strain of addiction impacts parenting and interpersonal relationships. Effective treatment programs, often incorporating cognitive behavioral therapy, are essential for mitigating these harmful social effects of cocaine."
This is what some EPO managers are under: "Regardless of whether cocaine is smoked, snorted, or injected, the physiological (biological) effects of cocaine on the brain involve the drug's effects on brain chemicals called neurotransmitters. Specifically, cocaine tends to dramatically increase the release of dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin. Because these chemicals are involved in pleasure and well-being, alertness, increase in blood pressure and pulse (heart rate), as well as happiness, the effects of cocaine on the body and mind are consistent with these side effects. Other physical signs and symptoms of cocaine use include decreased appetite, sleep, and male infertility."
On the 'brains' that the President has put in charge of the Office: "Evidence for the deleterious effects of cocaine use on cognitive functioning was limited to executive function and working memory domains."
Well done, Campinos! Maybe we can also all forget about your drunk-driving son who crashed the car and wanted immunity.
Like a Mafia don, Campinos turned Europe's second-largest institution into trash.
In Nature, a reputable journal, it says (2014): "Cocaine users consistently display cognitive impairments. However, it is still unknown whether these impairments are cocaine-induced and if they are reversible. Therefore, we examined the relation between changing intensity of cocaine use and the development of cognitive functioning within 1 year. The present data were collected as part of the longitudinal Zurich Cocaine Cognition Study (ZuCo2St). Forty-eight psychostimulant-naive controls and 57 cocaine users (19 with increased, 19 with decreased, and 19 with unchanged cocaine use) were eligible for analysis. At baseline and after a 1-year follow-up, cognitive performance was measured by a global cognitive index and four neuropsychological domains (attention, working memory, declarative memory, and executive functions), calculated from 13 parameters of a broad neuropsychological test battery. Intensity of cocaine use was objectively determined by quantitative 6-month hair toxicology at both test sessions. Substantially increased cocaine use within 1 year (mean +297%) was associated with reduced cognitive performance primarily in working memory. By contrast, decreased cocaine use (−72%) was linked to small cognitive improvements in all four domains. Importantly, users who ceased taking cocaine seemed to recover completely, attaining a cognitive performance level similar to that of the control group. However, recovery of working memory was correlated with age of onset of cocaine use—early-onset users showed hampered recovery. These longitudinal data suggest that cognitive impairment might be partially cocaine-induced but also reversible within 1 year, at least after moderate exposure. The reversibility indicates that neuroplastic adaptations underlie cognitive changes in cocaine users, which are potentially modifiable in psychotherapeutical or pharmacological interventions."
So this is what we have going on inside the Office now.
And colleagues suffer because Campinos trafficked cocaine users into the Office. Some insiders have long asserted that Campinos snorts cocaine. We have been hearing this many times (for over half a decade).
Some insiders urged us to "[f]ind credible scientific sources that demonstrate that cocaine use is often associated with pronounced mood swings, sudden mind changes, including swinging between exuberant overconfidence and episodes of anxiety or paranoia, which may be projected onto others through irritability or even aggressive behaviour."
Campinos should be held liable for this. He is actively facilitating crime, abuse, and high-level corruption. It's linked to the woman he sleeps with and who tries to become "friends" with me in social control media (no doubt in an effort to silence me).
How can any national delegates continue to justify this by inaction? This is complicity. █