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Anonymous at Tue, 12 Nov 2024 04:14:57 UTC No. 16471622
If most drugs are bad for you why aren't scientists working on making new drugs that dont ruin your mind and health?
Anonymous at Tue, 12 Nov 2024 04:29:02 UTC No. 16471627
>>16471622
because they're all illegal to 13yos anyways, so they can only do weird greymarket shit like whip cream refillerd
Anonymous at Tue, 12 Nov 2024 06:04:52 UTC No. 16471692
>>16471622
You have no idea how drug development works.
For the most part, they don't actually purpose make drugs, they have a bunch of known substances they test for general safety and they try find ways to market them for various symptoms. For the most part they have no idea why the drugs "work" and how they reduce the symptoms, they just throw a lot of shit at the wall and see what reactions result.
Anonymous at Tue, 12 Nov 2024 06:21:06 UTC No. 16471706
>>16471622
I've red some article about scientist trying to invent new drug, that was essentially having properties of crystal meth, but they didn't know because they haven't studied crystal meth in depth.
Anonymous at Tue, 12 Nov 2024 22:00:02 UTC No. 16472445
>>16471692
Mostly this.
They have bunch of chemicals which they use on cell lines and model organisms. Then they modify the chemical if needed, mostly attaching cyclopropane derivatives. This โ magically improves efficacy for some unknown reason.
Anonymous at Tue, 12 Nov 2024 22:59:06 UTC No. 16472518
>>16471622
Because it's impossible. Many of the negative consequences of drugs are not caused by their chemical composition, but rather their mechanism of action and the manner in which they impact our physiology. In many cases the negative effects are intrinsically linked with their positive effects. It would, for example, basically be impossible by definition to design a stimulant that doesn't increase your risk of heart attack. The whole point of taking a stimulant is that it "stimulates" your nervous system - it makes you more alert and increases your heart rate, blood pressure, body temp. etc. Anytime you increase something like heart rate or blood pressure, you increase the risk of heart attack. It's therefore basically impossible to make a stimulant that doesn't increase you're risk of heart attack, because the increase in e.g., heart rate, is not some accidental consequence of the medicine being toxic or something like that - rather, it's a direct consequence of the desirable effects of the drug in question. A stimulant, by definition, increases heart rate, and since an elevated heart rate is a risk factor for heart attacks whether drugs are involved or not, the increased risk of heart attack is an inherent component of what stimulants do. In some cases the side effects might in some sense be an accident or an indirect consequence of some odd bioechemical interaction that might not arise with other drugs that can be used to achieve the same effects. However, in many other cases the positive and negative effects of a drug cannot be disentangled if they both have the same underlying cause.
To give you another example, it would be basically impossible to create a depressant that doesn't increase your risk of accidents. Drowsiness is an inherent risk factor for having an accident, whether drugs are involved or not. Depressants are, by definition, drugs that produce relaxation, calmness, and drowsiness. By necessity, depressants increase your risk of accidents.
Anonymous at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:23:32 UTC No. 16472607
>>16471622
Pot, caffeine, and mushrooms already exist
Anonymous at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 08:53:23 UTC No. 16473146
>>16472518
And that's not true, we have stimulants with minimal risks of heart attack.
Anonymous at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 15:27:14 UTC No. 16473448
>>16473146
No, not really. There are stimulants that have less of a negative impact on you risk of heart attack, but pretty much all of them increase the risk to some extent. For people who have something like ADHD but also a risk of heart problems, doctors will generally opt for a non stimulant like modafinil. Even something as mild as coffee increases your risk of heart attack. If you know otherwise, feel free to mention the specific stimulant medication.