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To: BILL_C
Imagine a pill that increases alertness, improves memory and will probably reduce brain aging effects. Plus NO side effects. It will make many want to abuse!

How would you define abuse, and what contribution do you think laws can make toward preventing such abuse?

98 posted on 05/08/2005 7:38:09 AM PDT by eno_ (Freedom Lite - it's almost worth defending.)
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To: eno_

Let's see, it if increases cognition after a long night, or during a long night there are going to be some who will attempt to overdose.

Just look around, it happens.

It looks like from what I've seen, however, that there is a huge safety margin between projected dose and limiting doses with an ampakine (CX-717) so you'd probably have to take 8 pills or more to just develope a headache!

But right now there's nothing to suggest that abuse (taking more than the recomended dose) would do much more than produce a headache.

Further testing will tell. We're a couple of years from having an ampakine on the shelf for anything. But DARPA (military) and sleep related uses are probably going to come first.

LAWS? Just distribution/costs will limit use, as it USUALLY should be.


100 posted on 05/08/2005 8:48:01 AM PDT by BILL_C
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