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Paranoid
2003-01-12 - 5:37 p.m.


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The war on drugs will inhibit medical research.

The war on drugs, the war on terrorisim, the war on the economy, the war on fun, the war on the war on the war on...

The war on everything except blue blooded ex coke fiends in positions of high power.

Tired of war.  Its barbaric, cruel and mean, and making an analogy of it towards anything positive is imbicellic, much like establishing an auschwitz institute of hebronic studies.

But this isn't the nut of my piquant interest today.

It occurs to me that some of the delusions and hallucinations experienced by paranoid schizophrenics are caused by certain brain neurotransmitters, or interaction of the same and defective re-uptake.

And that, as these hallucinations and delusions grow more intense and debilitating, the presence, or perhaps lack, of these neurotransmitters would either be increased or absent.

Meaning that this would be measurable, and thus, manageable.

(not sure how you would test a full blown paranoid schizophrenic in mid-psychotic break, but...)

In identifying the neurotransmitters responsible, research on psychadelic drugs would be interesting, in that perhaps the psychotropic agent present that causes hallucinations in high doses would lead to an isolation of the areas of the brain affected by the neurotransmitters, or, as stated, lacked.

Also, in finding a way to block the action of a psychotropic could possibly lead to development of better medications to handle hallucinations and delusions.

And with the war on drugs raging all throughout our fast food culture as Junior makes his coca bred paranoia our own, (and he the salesman of security), so much learning will be lost.

 


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