Nicotine Is the New Wonder Drug

Fantastic Lad sends us to Wired for a story on the upside of nicotine. Researchers are developing drugs based on nicotine that may prove beneficial for brains, bowels, blood vessels and immune systems. "Nicotine acts on the acetylcholine receptors in the brain, stimulating and regulating the release of a slew of brain chemicals, including seratonin, dopamine and norepinephrine. Now drugs derived from nicotine and the research on nicotine receptors are in clinical trials for everything from helping to heal wounds, to depression, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, Tourette Syndrome, ADHD, anger management and anxiety." A separate story talks about nicotine warding off Parkinson's disease.

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"New Wonder Drug"

[smittyoneeach]

Brings but a shrug
Merely be not a thug
When cutting the rug
Burma Shave

Re:Suspicious at best.

[Anonymous Coward]

Let's not kid ourselves: the nanny state requires either a) population growth or b) euthanasia.
It is vitally important that the machine aggressively trim the deadwood.
As long as we have enough 1,000+ page studies to build a wall between the sheep and understanding, then we can continue to push poisons and stabilize the machine.
It is imperative that the sheep stay sheep, and not consider responsibility, liberty, and how a long, healthy, happy life can be achieved by simply minimizing interaction with the nanny state.
That is all.

OT

[wish bot]

Posting as a bit of a test - the past couple of times I've posted I seem to have been port scanned almost immediately from an IP in Bulgaria. Anyone else getting this? Weird.