Summary: A Quick Fix Pill
A Quick Fix Pill
Alcoholism is a problem that affects many people around the world. Although many realise their problem and actively try to fix it with counselling, family support, and professional rehabilitation facilities, 90% of patients fail to successfully stop or even reduce their consumption. However, it is usually not ‘them’ but instead their brain that gives in first. What if there was simply a drug that tricked the brain into submission, into believing that there was no rewarding effects from alcohol. Relief could be brought to not only the sufferer but to their family, friends, body, and the healthcare system.
Well, after extensive research, Professor Daryl Davies may just have discovered this effortless drug and he has just shared …show more content…
The main basis of this is the massively increased dosing schedule. For treating fleas, ticks, and other parasites it is only administered up to a maximum of 3 times a year. Its new purpose would require daily administration. To ensure this dose is safe for humans, clinical trials need to be done but the funding just isn’t there. Pharmaceutical companies see no profit in this solution, the drug is already off patent and been made for very cheap. It may be some time before someone steps up to the plate to fund these clinical trials.
Has Science Gone Too Far?
As scientific and medical findings advance it is becoming more apparent that everything we feel, think, and do is just controlled through biochemistry within our bodies. Professor Daryl Davies’ research has shown that, although we know drugs influence the body in certain ways by stimulating certain receptors, the full extent that the body can be controlled is yet to be discovery. This interests me because in the future there may just be a pill to fix anything that is considered wrong with the …show more content…
Every sickness/illness/injury may just be able to be cured with a simple drug. Mental disorders just be a thing of the past. Being able to change the way you think, feel or behave by just taking a drug would be very
Alcoholism is a problem that affects many people around the world. Although many realise their problem and actively try to fix it with counselling, family support, and professional rehabilitation facilities, 90% of patients fail to successfully stop or even reduce their consumption. However, it is usually not ‘them’ but instead their brain that gives in first. What if there was simply a drug that tricked the brain into submission, into believing that there was no rewarding effects from alcohol. Relief could be brought to not only the sufferer but to their family, friends, body, and the healthcare system.
Well, after extensive research, Professor Daryl Davies may just have discovered this effortless drug and he has just shared …show more content…
The main basis of this is the massively increased dosing schedule. For treating fleas, ticks, and other parasites it is only administered up to a maximum of 3 times a year. Its new purpose would require daily administration. To ensure this dose is safe for humans, clinical trials need to be done but the funding just isn’t there. Pharmaceutical companies see no profit in this solution, the drug is already off patent and been made for very cheap. It may be some time before someone steps up to the plate to fund these clinical trials.
Has Science Gone Too Far?
As scientific and medical findings advance it is becoming more apparent that everything we feel, think, and do is just controlled through biochemistry within our bodies. Professor Daryl Davies’ research has shown that, although we know drugs influence the body in certain ways by stimulating certain receptors, the full extent that the body can be controlled is yet to be discovery. This interests me because in the future there may just be a pill to fix anything that is considered wrong with the …show more content…
Every sickness/illness/injury may just be able to be cured with a simple drug. Mental disorders just be a thing of the past. Being able to change the way you think, feel or behave by just taking a drug would be very