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Dec. 27th, 2007 07:41 pmThis looks incredibly awesome. If orexin turns out to actually make narcolepsy go away, well, my god. (The article's got precious little detail about that, preferring to focus on the smart-drug aspect -- I was curious about whether it makes the hallucinations or cataplexy go away, too, but no love.)
The article may be right to focus on the smart-drug aspect, though. Say you had access to that spray -- no physical addiction, no twitchy side effects... would you abuse it? 'Cause if it really is that perfect of a drug, you wouldn't be getting the feedback telling you when you're using your body up; you'd just keep on going, with no safety net of jitters or exhaustion to tell you when to let up.
It's kind of a new dilemma -- how many of us have the discipline to handle a drug that doesn't suck?
The article may be right to focus on the smart-drug aspect, though. Say you had access to that spray -- no physical addiction, no twitchy side effects... would you abuse it? 'Cause if it really is that perfect of a drug, you wouldn't be getting the feedback telling you when you're using your body up; you'd just keep on going, with no safety net of jitters or exhaustion to tell you when to let up.
It's kind of a new dilemma -- how many of us have the discipline to handle a drug that doesn't suck?