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Re:French drug trial leaves six hospitalized, one brain-dead by dawnbreez on Friday January 15, 2016 @12:08PM (#10910555)
What was the drug?
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Re:French drug trial leaves six hospitalized, one brain-dead by TacticalMalice on Saturday January 16, 2016 @01:50AM (#10914549)
Some investigation of recent patents by Bial points to a probable candidate http://cdsouthan.blogspot.nl/2016/01/the-unfortunate-case-of...
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Re:French drug trial leaves six hospitalized, one brain-dead by dawnbreez on Saturday January 16, 2016 @11:58AM (#10915797)
So it might be an FAAH inhibitor? one quick google search later

So one of the things that FAAHs do is handle "endocannabinoids", which are chemicals that activate cannabinoid receptors, which are (as the name implies) also triggered by cannabis. That'd explain why people thought it was a cannabis-based painkiller.

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