Posted by Dr. Fried on April 5, 2000, at 23:48:25
In reply to Re: Example of Street Drug as Therapeutic Agent, posted by Cam W. on April 5, 2000, at 21:14:25
It seems ironic to me that the same politicians backing the "War on Drugs" are also in bed with the tobacco companies. It doesn't make much sense. A lot of your hallucinogens effect serotonin in some way, as far as I know unknown at the present. I think I read somewhere that imipramine blocks LSD and therefore they share a common receptor, I think the imipramine causing a much weaker agonist(?) response. The SSRI's are primarily effecting serotonin, and some of the atypical neuroleptics block a particular type of serotonin receptor. It would be interesting to know if the atypical neuroleptics block the effects of some of the more common hallucinogens.
Ibogaine, I have heard, is effective in interupting addiction. Of course any of these hallucinogens would aggravate people with a tendency towards mania or psychosis in all likelihood. But, if you put a group of pot heads next to a group of people on paxil and you were too far away to smell them, I think you would have trouble telling them apart. It also troubles me that with the greenhouse effect everybody seems to be burning up gas in their cars like there is no tommorow. And would it suprise anyone if the new drugs of abuse are mostly electronic?
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