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Are pharmaceutical companies disregarding the rights of patients with the drugs they make? - I know that there are no laws making a person take any medicine involuntarily but suppose a change in mental behavior was suggested by doctors and also desired by the patient. What if a person took a psychoactive drug, as suggested by his doctors, changed but did not change the way he anticipated or wanted to? - I have heard many stories of how people feel zombie-ish, their lives distorted, because of the drugs they have been prescribed. If this change considered irreversible then is that not taking away an individual’s right to live their life the way they want to? - The changes are supposedly better in the eyes of a doctor but the patient now desires his old life because, even though considered inferior, he finds it appealing. It represents his individuality and uniqueness he used to have that is now drowned out by chemicals. - Because of what pharmaceutical companies and doctors think the correct mental state of a healthy person is the patient is forced to live someone else’s idea of what life should be. - Also in a related Question: What is the ideal / normal behavior pharmaceutical companies strive to achieve with their drugs? They have to have some sort of profile to work towards. They can’t just pump chemicals into the brain and roll dice with the results. - The idea of what a proper person should be varies in different eyes. How can a pharmaceutical company or doctor say: ‘this drug will make you better’ but in fact after it has been taken, it is not the change anticipated and you are stuck in another mind not your own. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't understand why people just can't stop feeling bad~MeetMeHalfway

extremely-negative emotional experiences are a shock to the mind. Amnesia is in a way just a walking coma to protect the individual from “damaging” thoughts. Either that or the event is so unbelievable and unfathomable that the person doesn't understand what has happened and to the person it is much easier to believe that it never occured in the first place. I have never heard of anyone, without the use of drugs, experience anything as shockingly euphoric as the suggested. And if an event was such an incomprehensible thing then they really needs to get friends or just outright laugh at a comedy. Laughter is healthy. Just some music,

I would like to thank all of you that submitted posts. I apologize for the original post being misleading or nebulous. Arcade Fire: WakeUp To GDG, I know that I projected an image of only physical values and not spiritual or religious- the reason was that the physical properties of life, money, movies, cars, do not rely on an emotional trigger to (they themselves) exist. Correct love and relationships can trigger similar reactions but that in my mind would be like creating emotions out of emotions and not from something unlike. Furthermore I am a bit confused about your difference between euphoria and happiness. If I am wrong my little dictionary states that euphoria is just an unjustifiable happiness but happiness nonetheless. They are the same or am I seeing in black and white? The "flow" idea was very much liked. Don’t know about the hippy crap of accessing it naturally. But the focus and energy achieved is the focus. Hell I broke my hand because I punched my kitchen cabinet when I was eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Not because I was angry but because it was a really good sandwich. It is that emotional interaction out of nothing I believe could be synthesized. Bat For Lashes: Daniel That being said I may have deviated from my original question about a powerful drug, enough to sustain a human body for a long period of time and not be rejected by the body or cause addiction of the kind cocaine causes. I am unsure of the relative "machine" that changizi relates to, I am guessing that is a metaphor or symbol. Utada Hikaru: Simple and Clean I agree with INow in that positive reinforcement and the stimulation of the reward center in our brains drive us to act. Don’t know if I would go for the evolutionary and innate genes underlying our future actions but I don’t know much about that topic. Thank you.

What is Happiness? What is Hate? What is love? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsCXZczTQXo I have developed the belief that emotions are nothing more than chemical reactions in the Limbic System of the brain. They transpire into something we perceive regardless of reality or their origin. If emotions are the result of substance then it is possible to synthesize such chemicals to mimic feelings. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpViKXu36z0 Psychoactive drugs such as anti-depressants, lithium, and anxiolytics are currently in use medically in order to alter a patient’s state of mind. These are necessary for the survival and comfort of the patient but do very little to change life as we know it for the entire healthy human race. The entire reason for our existence is for the pursuit of happiness. You work for money. With your money you buy your desires. With your desires you work for more money to buy more desires. “Whatever makes you happy.” Music, movies, memories, love and sex all make many people happy and is what makes life worth living. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67Fb8XbpWMM The main question I am trying to ask you is: Would there ever be a drug/chemical used to achieve the same state of euphoria we all strive for? It would be a total life of ecstasy. However, if you are familiar with the films: The Matrix, Serenity, or even one episode of Star Trek, all illustrated a situation where a group of humans locked in such delusions did not succeed. The Matrix was not perfect because the “crops” rejected the idea of a perfect society. In Serenity the colony was so blissful the inhabitants merely lay down and wasted away without a care in the world. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EuTA4jlpWA Do you believe such reactions would happen in real life? Would people become lethargic and brainless? Would the drug cause addiction or would the human body reject it like pain killers? Thank you.

You divided the diameter of the cell by the dimension of the actin. B) (5x10^-5m)/2 = 2.5x10^-5m (4/3)(pi)(2.5x10^-5m)3 = 6.5450x10^-14m ----> cell dimension 3.6x10^-9m/2 = 1.8x10^-9m (4/3)(pi)(1.8x10^-9m)3 = 2.4429x10^-26m ----> actin dimension 6.5450x10^-14m / 2.4429x10^-26m = 2.6792x10^12 ----> 2.7x10^12 actin C) 1.5x10^-6m/2 = 7.5x10^-7m (4/3)(pi)(7.5x10^-7m)3 = 1.7671x10^-18m ----> mitochondion dimesion 6.5450x10^-14m / 1.7671x10^-18m = 37038.085 mitochondria ----> I apologize if this is not accurate enough