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The worst drug ever invented
Filed under: Imported
From Pravda, the NYT of the empire formerly known as evil:
"Respite from the diet roller coaster may come in the form of an experimental pill.
"And because the pill also targets the brain's pleasure center - the first diet pill to do so - it's showing some promise in helping smokers kick cigarettes. "
(To get the whole truth, read between the lines of the entire piece.)
A drug that targets-- and, apparently, kills-- "the brain's pleasure center." Just what we all need these days!
P.S. I recall an interview with Aldous Huxley where he suggested that if a drug could make people genuinely happy, the powers-that-be could addict an entire population. When challenged by the interviewer about how you could possibly get that many people to take the drug, Huxley replied, Make it available.
Posted by Steve Monaco at November 10, 2004 5:02 AM
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