I enjoy tracking down “promising research ” that the media jumps to up and down over that professes to have a found a ‘magic pill’ to combat addiction.
I think this one takes the cake, or should I say candy. A new treatment has been found for cocaine addiction, eat licorice.
This is even dumber than I thought. I thought we would be talking about eating candy or getting a sugar rush to help with cravings.
But the it gets even sillier apparently an ingredient in licorice shows promise as a treatment for cocaine addiction, but involves injections. I guess the solution is to have plenty of liquice to inject in case somebody overdoses. Here’s the full report, if you want to bother as reported in Science Daily
Hmmmm, I wonder if THIS one will stand the test of time.
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I think that the world has changed and society expects or even demands a magic pill solution for addiction. I agree with you Bill that these quick candy fixes are never going to give the same quality of sobriety that someone can get with a more “personal growth” style recovery program. For some reason the world has become lazy and they do not want to put in the action and the effort necessary to get clean and sober.
My personal prediction is that this will get worse before it gets better. I think the focus will continue to shift towards instant solutions and magic pills, until the world figures out that they don’t really work in the long run. But this will be a slow learning process for our society. Just my prediction, I could be wrong! (And, there could be a magic pill out there, too….).
We live in such an “instant gratification” society that we are always looking for an instant fix to everything.
However, licorice seems a new fad for a lot of things. I’ve read they are studying it for weight loss as well.
totally agree with Patrick.
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The chemical may or may not prove useful for controlling cravings, but it definitely won’t be a “magic bullet.” Magic bullets usually don’t work for anything, including overcoming substance abuse.