Re:Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more
by grugagag on Friday May 19, 2023 @11:39PM
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> The question it was asking was "why can we take drugs to bring us to normal, but we can't take drugs that make us better than normal?"
Because ultimately drugs make you pay one way or another, eg dependency, liver toxicity, numbness of some other facet and so on. When none of those will be true it’s the day they become the new norm
Re:Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more
by Earw0rm on Saturday May 20, 2023 @03:08AM
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True, but the price vs the amount of effect varies hugely.
Some drugs are a bargain. Caffeine. E-nicotine. Some are hellishly expensive. Solvents will destroy your health without even giving much in the way of a high.
Re:Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more
by crooked-v on Saturday May 20, 2023 @12:20AM
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> why can we take drugs to bring us to normal, but we can't take drugs that make us better than normal?
Consider caffeine, which is probably entirely responsible by itself for a significant sliver of the world's total GDP.
We just don't have a lot of drugs like that because it's hard to find stuff that's performance-enhancing without serious side effects.
10 years ago, I was reading about nootropics and ran across an interesting piece on the ethics of drugs (that has probably been lost to time). The question it was asking was "why can we take drugs to bring us to normal, but we can't take drugs that make us better than normal?"
The interesting consequence is that it de facto forces people who don't need drugs to take them or be at a disadvantage. (think adderall at a competitive college or testosterone for lifting).