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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Barry Egan on November 19, 2014, 10:02:51 PM

Title: In the future everyone will have a prescription drug tailored specifically
Post by: Barry Egan on November 19, 2014, 10:02:51 PM
for their unique genetic make-up (I read this in the NYT). 

But unfortunately for now drugs are a crap shoot and some of the best pills will destroy you.

This is a thread about how amazing Lorazepam is.  :rejoice
Title: Re: In the future everyone will have a prescription drug tailored specifically
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 19, 2014, 10:05:34 PM
And if by "everyone" you mean "the wealthy" you'd totally be right!
Title: Re: In the future everyone will have a prescription drug tailored specifically
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 19, 2014, 11:11:02 PM
And if by "everyone" you mean "the wealthy" you'd totally be right!

Money will be illegal and robots will do all the work. :aah
Title: Re: In the future everyone will have a prescription drug tailored specifically
Post by: ToxicAdam on November 19, 2014, 11:13:43 PM
Custom dermapatches for all.


I would like a 1 part Xanax, 3 parts Ephedrine please.

Title: Re: In the future everyone will have a prescription drug tailored specifically
Post by: Himu on November 19, 2014, 11:14:49 PM
What do you mean tailored to your genetic makeup

How would this work
Title: Re: In the future everyone will have a prescription drug tailored specifically
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on November 20, 2014, 02:23:40 AM
this is great.
Title: Re: In the future everyone will have a prescription drug tailored specifically
Post by: Brehvolution on November 20, 2014, 09:04:26 AM
Why would you hand over your genetic makeup just for some custom meds? Who is to say they won't just look at it and decide not to bother covering the meds today because they can tell that you will die from heart failure in a year anyway?
Title: Re: In the future everyone will have a prescription drug tailored specifically
Post by: Barry Egan on November 21, 2014, 10:54:26 AM
What do you mean tailored to your genetic makeup

How would this work

here is an article about it (http://partners.nytimes.com/library/financial/122099outlook-biot.html) from 1999:

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"With the genome being completed, I think we're literally going to move from statistical-based medicine, where we're thinking about entire populations, to personalized medicine," said Kenneth J. Conway, president of Millennium Predictive Medicine, a majority-owned subsidiary of Millennium Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, Mass. "I think we're going to look back 10 years from now and think of medicine as being in the dark ages."

lol.
Title: Re: In the future everyone will have a prescription drug tailored specifically
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 21, 2014, 12:24:15 PM
I only advocate drugs of any sort for recreational purposes (other than like, antibiotics and shit)

:yeshrug
Title: Re: In the future everyone will have a prescription drug tailored specifically
Post by: Barry Egan on November 21, 2014, 01:25:23 PM
if they could make a benzo that sidesteps the torturous dynamic between physiological tolerance and withdrawal symptoms it would be extremely my shit. 
Title: Re: In the future everyone will have a prescription drug tailored specifically
Post by: Huff on November 22, 2014, 01:57:48 AM
only going to be for cancer drugs. the rest work well enough that theres no money in making new kinds