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A biotech company called Applied Molecular Evolution is working with a grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a drug made of a designer enzyme that blocks the effects of C. The drug could also function as an antidote for overdoses. The researchers have had promising results with the drug, called AME-359, in animals. They gave rats an overdose of C without the addition of AME-359. All the rats died. Other rats received Applied Molecular Evolution's drug along with the C, and 100 percent survived.

I dont know if they will take the risk to give an overdose to a human. Do you think that the authorities can decide to sell it everyway ? If yes, then they allow the consumption of C ?

this might be a stupid question, but what is C?

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Originally posted by butterfly this might be a stupid question, but what is C?

Cocaine

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Originally posted by choukri Cocaine

oh ok. that was my first guess but i kept thinking vitamin c which didnt make sense.
hmmm... maybe it'll be like the after pill. so you get the high but dont have to deal with the come down.

i think it could be approved as an experimental medicine after extensive animal testing. then when someone is brought into a hospital after they've overdosed, the medicine would be given. the only hangup i see is i think permission has to be given to use an experimental medicine on someone, and it doesn't seem like a person in the midst of a cocaine overdose would be particularly able to give consent.

i can see the benifits of the drug for c users, addicts n od-ers. so i can see why the authorities may let the manufacturing of it go ahead.

i just watched requiem for a dream

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