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- From: cfthb@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Howard Black)
- Subject: Re: LSD and alcoholics posting on usenet
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.173322.10464@ux1.cts.eiu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:33:22 GMT
- References: <1992Dec26.095317.12613@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1992Dec27.012019.1@pomona.claremont.edu> <1992Dec27.162719.9247@prime.mdata.fi>
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- In article <1992Dec27.162719.9247@prime.mdata.fi> jjj@mits.mdata.fi (Joni Jarvenkyla) writes:
- >
- >Just read from the newspapers today of a new drug naloxone which
- >prevents the brain from forming natural opiates when drinking. Somewhere
-
- I suspect you either misread or the article was wrong. Naloxone, which
- is not a new drug btw, is an opiate antagonist that blocks opiate receptors
- from binding to endogenous or exogenous opiates.
-
- >in the article they also quoted the original speaker:"We have found more
- >evidence to the claim that alcoholism is a biochemical disease and not
- >just lack of willpower". With this in mind we could treat addiction
- >whatsoever as a disease. So what? Does it change the fact that a person
- >is addicted and unable to control him/herself?
-
- No, it doesn't. So what?
-
- >I am deeply wondering what do these "scientists" think a human is but a
- >biochemical machine.
-
- What do you think you are, if not that?
-
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- Howard Black cfthb@ux1.cts.eiu.edu
- Department of Chemistry Eastern Illinois Univ.
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