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PaperclipPerfector  1yr ago (text post)   3089 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for September 3, 2023

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You can solve the opiate crisis by setting up “pro-social behavioral clinics” where opiates are administered surreptitiously under the contextual cues of prosocial behavior. This works to create a natural association where the addict expects to receive opiates during the behavior in which it is released endogenously. This would be iterative, so maybe the first time they have an opiate when coming in to visit, next time it’s when they talk about positive behaviors, etc. The opiate would he administered without any cues, in the form of either a drink or a food or a gum. Then what you do is you implement the reverse side of the equation: put them in a room filled with the cues of drugs (needles, pills, shady people, etc), then administer an opiate blocker like ibogaine, which has the added benefit of increasing up regulation of endogenous opioid receptors! (I’ve thought also either electric shocks or cold plunges to increase endogenous opioid up regulation as much as possible, along with curcumin and sulforaphane which do the same)

This could be an easy daily regimen, it’s very cost effective, at the tail end of the regimen you would have them exercise to receive ever-decreasing opioid administration — this is ideal because eventually their body will just release them naturally which happens from exercise.

I would bet all of my money that this is the most efficient and effective way to solve addiction and am confident in a few decades it will be implemented and proven

This is one of those classic early 20th century psychology ideas that unfortunate things like the emergence of ethics committees and litigation culture has halted, but I’m all for it.

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