[Magdalen] Drug research.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

I saw that. It's aimed at the psychiatric angle, so it doesn't talk about
the other stuff.

The point was that many medicines started out in a very different category
than that in which they became well known.

I am really tired of sharpshooters. Not surprised, but tired.



James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 6:11 PM, Allan Carr <allanc25 at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorpromazine
>
> In the section headed "History", it was developed as a better alternative
> to a drug used to calm surgical patients. It was quickly tested in a mental
> hospital, with a dramatic effect on a manic patient who was discharged in
> three weeks.
> It was marketed as Thorazine, replaced such treatments as shock therapy
> and psychosurgery and quickly emptied mental hospitals of patients with all
> sorts of psychoses.
> It also led to the discovery of antidepressants.
> If I recall correctly, there are 30,000 homeless living on the streets of
> Los Angeles, many of them psychotic. I'm not sure if most of them reject
> treatment with drugs like Thorazine.
>
>
> > On Aug 17, 2016, at 2:25 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thorazine was the first anti-psychotic (early 1950s)
> > but IIRC was developed with the hope that it would treat malaria.
> >
> > In its rudimentary clinical trials it was found to have other potentials.
> > -M, who remembers patients with Tardive dyskinesia
> >
> > On Wednesday, August 17, 2016, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
> > oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> No.
> >>
> >>
>