Comments on: Prescription For Addiction

60 Minutes' Scott Pelley Reports On A New Addiction Treatment

[runningralph]

Winnemucan,
You posted that it would be better to prevent drug abuse. I agree. Prevention has been tried and tried for years. Obviously it has been unsuccessful. Alcoholism, drug addiction, obesity, gambling addiction all have one thing is common. They are self inflicted. So far no one has come up with a way to prevent people who have no control from destroying themselves. The best we can do is not to enable.

[winnemuccan]

A more practical solution is to prevent drug-abuse in the first place.

[countrybumki]

The problem is the ''government'' is pissed because something might be working that they didn''t say was ok. There are so many cures out there for all kiinds of things including many forms of cancers. Proven in other countries, but because the "FDA" has to get their greedy little fringers into the mix, many well loved people out there get the agony of major suffering while others continue to get rich off of their ''games''

[runningralph]

Lloydbest1,
Well said.

[lloydbest1]

Maybe this stuff works; maybe it doesn''t. We will never know for sure until "science" does an impartial double blinded test on a LOT of volunteers.
While doing these trials it is also important to determine why the drug cocktail does (or does not) work.
Mr. Peizer has one thing working for him at present. The Placebo effect is one of the most powerful allies a medical doctor (or snake oil salesman) can have. No one really knows why it works as well as it does but even if the "Peizer Cure" turns out to be all horsesh*t and bunco; a small but significant number of his patients will realize a measurable improvement in their condition and, possibly, some will be cured.

[runningralph]

I hope this stuff works. There sure are a bunch of sad sacks out there that need to get off of dope. prescription and street drugs. The only other things that I can remember that helped were methadone and paraquat.

[denn034]

Unverified is reason sufficient to not try it.

[raskal_2]

No that is not what its really about, Peizer... We are about real,honest,impartial science. If you are a true scientist, you would welcome reliable testing by other scientists. This pseudo-science *** is getting more and more popular in the self-help crowd. There is even a national publication that claims that science has proven that there is a connection between thinking about money (for example) and getting money. No, science has not proven any such thing. And even Oprah supported this nonsense. I just hope I never see in the news that Prometa apearently works by killing all brain cells that have serotonin receptors and turning people into manic rabbits. Let''s be real scientists

[jshmks]

There goes my crack sales