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2000-06-22 21:18atomlyhttp://www.newscientist.com/features/features_22424.html This is just scary- companies are

From:: atomly <atomly@atomly.com>
To:: Rb Grn <rbgrn@atomly.com>, <mw-raves@hyperreal.org>, <idm@hyperreal.org>, <gabber@hyperreal.org>, <hardheadz@egroups.com>, <c8@mail.ameth.org>, <partykids@onelist.com>
Date:: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 16:18:36 -0500
Subject:: [idm] Anti-Drug Vaccines

http://www.newscientist.com/features/features_22424.html This is just scary- companies are developing vaccines against drugs to deter usage... Imagine if they start giving them to kids. Here's a snippet: BILLY wanted to be bad. He just never quite made it. Sure, he'd put in the hours hanging out with the wrong crowd. He'd snorted what they snorted, injected what they injected and smoked what they smoked. But while his friends found bliss or oblivion, Billy was left to watch from the sidelines, untouched by the drugs. Billy's parents couldn't have been happier with the result. Years ago, they'd made the decision to vaccinate their son against addictive chemicals. Thanks to a few simple injections, Billy's blood was brimming with antibodies that bind to these substances and stop them getting to his brain, like a thin red line of defence against life's vices. Billy may be fictitious, but the prospect of an anti-drug vaccine isn't just a rebellious teenager's nightmare. Academic labs and at least five companies are in the advanced stages of animal testing for antibody therapies against cocaine, phencyclidine (PCP), methamphetamine and even nicotine. One anti-cocaine vaccine has already been tested for safety in drug abusers. By the end of the year, it could be undergoing its first efficacy trials. -- :: atomly :: atomly@atomly.com | atomly@atdot.org | atomly@cyrus.net http://www.atomly.com | http://www.mp3.com/atomly [CELL|(888)522.3830] | [CELL|(701)729.1631] | [HOME|(612)676.1817] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

2000-06-22 22:18Ethan Winnyeqah, i know it's off topic but (a) how many of y'all know you got into this music throug

From:: Ethan Winn <ethanw@suddenindustries.com>
To:: <idm@hyperreal.com>
Date:: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 18:18:40 -0400
Subject:: RE: [idm] Anti-Drug Vaccines
Reply to:: [idm] Anti-Drug Vaccines

yeqah, i know it's off topic but (a) how many of y'all know you got into this music through drug infested culture and crazy-twistedbrain nights? and (b) has anyone out there ever read a phillip k. dick book? anyway, the scary part for me is that it protects the brain more than the body: -- it mops up the drug in the blood vessels and the resulting drug diffusion gradient causes the drug to leak rapidly back from the brain into the blood vessels. "If one organ is preferentially protected, isn't it wonderful that it's the brain?" -- just imagine the following dinnertable discussion: "mommy, why does my stomach hurt so much today? and my hands won't stop shaking..." "that's what happens when you don't behave son, like yesterday...no more confectioners sugar on your desert for two days"... that's right...employers, your time is come, fascists be happy...drug the immunized masses without their knowledge of it! and the best part is they'll have no way of knowing... -----Original Message----- From: atomly [mailto:atomly@atomly.com] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 5:19 PM To: Rb Grn; mw-raves@hyperreal.org; idm@hyperreal.org; gabber@hyperreal.org; hardheadz@egroups.com; c8@mail.ameth.org; partykids@onelist.com Subject: [idm] Anti-Drug Vaccines http://www.newscientist.com/features/features_22424.html This is just scary- companies are developing vaccines against drugs to deter usage... Imagine if they start giving them to kids. -- :: atomly :: atomly@atomly.com | atomly@atdot.org | atomly@cyrus.net http://www.atomly.com | http://www.mp3.com/atomly [CELL|(888)522.3830] | [CELL|(701)729.1631] | [HOME|(612)676.1817] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org