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A New Vaccine For Drinking Could Keep Alcoholics Sober

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Re: A New Vaccine For Drinking Could Keep Alcoholics Sober

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Post by gojomo »

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #11

The first thing that popped into my mind was a Tintin story - where Captain Haddock finds he can no longer bear the taste of whiskey. The professor had given him something akin to this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_and_the_Picaros Life is stranger than ...

But how about if that fiction was itself based on life?

Ibogaine, a hallucinogen from Africa, has been a folk remedy (with some medical evidence) for addiction for over a hundred years, and (appropriate for a Tintin reference) 1st came to European attention via French and Belgian explorers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibogaine#History

Re: A New Vaccine For Drinking Could Keep Alcoholics Sober

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Post by djKianoosh »

cpressey wrote: post #34
evan_ wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's called a Pull Quote. It's used in newspapers and magazines to draw you into an article as you leaf through the pages, I guess it serves basically the same purpose in blogs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull_quote

It works far better in print media, in my opinion... you don't leaf through the pages of a blog.

But some people do scroll down fast, somewhat like skimming...

Re: A New Vaccine For Drinking Could Keep Alcoholics Sober

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Post by scott_s »

nnq wrote: post #33
phren0logy wrote: post #6

I'm a psychiatrist and I work with an addiction population. I think many of them would be glad to have this as an option. It's certainly not perfect, but it would provide an additional layer of protection to people who struggle to maintain sobriety. I think it's sad that the first reaction to this is to think of it as something from "dystopian" science fiction. The oral medication disulfram shares a similar mechanism…

...and then the alcoholics will turn to harder drugs for which they don't have intolerance. Great news! ...if you're a drug dealer.

That argument also applies to people who stop drinking without help of a drug.

Re: A New Vaccine For Drinking Could Keep Alcoholics Sober

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Post by rmc »

MrBra wrote: post #2

you need to cure the causes not the effects.

There is nothing wrong with a temporary clutch. After all, and actually clutch doesn't cure someone's broken leg, but you wouldn't take it away from someone with a broke leg. A clutch gives people time to heal. This can do that too.

Re: A New Vaccine For Drinking Could Keep Alcoholics Sober

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Post by scott_s »

evan_ wrote: post #27
ImprovedSilence wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree, yet this tactic pops up all the time. I suspect it keeps those with short attention spans (who can't be bothered to get through an entire page of writing) glued in better to the article. Anyone know what this "literary device" is called? "yet this tactic pops up all the time."

It's called a Pull Quote. It's used in newspapers and magazines to draw you into an article as you leaf through the pages, I guess it serves basically the same purpose in blogs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull_quote

It works best in magazines or newspaper layouts where the pull-quote exists outside of the normal eye-path when reading the article. Then you avoid the "Hey, I just read that" moment, but still pull people in who are leafing through.

But, web pages are not typically laid out in such a way to allow for that.

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Post by Turing_Machine »

scott_s wrote: post #47
evan_ wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's called a Pull Quote. It's used in newspapers and magazines to draw you into an article as you leaf through the pages, I guess it serves basically the same purpose in blogs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull_quote

It works best in magazines or newspaper layouts where the pull-quote exists outside of the normal eye-path when reading the article. Then you avoid the "Hey, I just read that" moment, but still pull people in who are leafing through. But, web pages are not typically laid out in such a way to allow for that.

It would probably work better as a side bar in this case, since the blog layout has all that wasted space on the left.

Re: A New Vaccine For Drinking Could Keep Alcoholics Sober

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Post by jff »

at-fates-hands wrote: post #16

I remember a roommate of my in college who was a heavy smoker and was trying to quit. Friend of his was in Equinox (the multi-level marketing scheme) and gave him some of these "no smoke" tablets to cure him of his smoking habit. He said all it did was give him intolerable diarrhea for a week and then he threw the rest of the tablets away. I would imagine most people would do the same thing with the oral medication i…

Things you buy from MLMs are generally overpriced, worthless, or both. Usually both.
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