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Trauma Pill Might Help Ease Emotional Pain

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the feel-no-evil dept.

FrenchyinOntario writes "Canada's Globe & Mail is reporting that scientists are currently testing a 'trauma pill' that might help the victims of rape, the battlefield and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) forget or perhaps simply never store the memories of what happened to them the way they are stored normally immediately after the traumatic event, when the brain overloads itself with stress hormones. It's theorized that the pills could eventually be handed out to victims of Katrina-like disasters as well as returning war veterans. Critics wonder what kind of an effect it would have on a victim not to work through the pain like people have traditionally done."

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  1. First major use for them... by marcushnk · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will be to put them into pez dispensers and give them out for free to IT support staff around the world.

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  2. Re:Eternal Sunshine? by Galactic+Dominator · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually they have already made this. Been around for years, comes in a bottle which I highly recommend to all my friends. Called Jack Daniels.

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  3. Use for slashdotters by Dr.+Spork · · Score: 4, Funny
    1. Make a clumsy nerd pass at some hot woman
    2. Receive painful, ego-shattering rejection.
    3. Take pill.
    4. Suddenly 2. doesn't seem so bad...
    5. ???
    6. Profit

    (7. Repeat)

  4. Re:Eternal Sunshine? by flyingsquid · · Score: 4, Funny

    A pill that wipes out memories of trauma? If only this had been available after "Episode I: Attack of the Clones."

  5. Finally by JumperCable · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally there is a solution for dups on slashdot!

  6. Re:It'll Turn 'Em by permaculture · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's almost as if this could be used for evil, as well as good.

    What's science today coming to?

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  7. And don't forget... by Trejkaz · · Score: 4, Funny

    One for the lady too.

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