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Such a drug exists. Namely, anything of the benzodiazepine class.
by IAmGraydon 8y ago
Such a drug exists. Namely, anything of the benzodiazepine class.
- jackmodern 8y agobingo^ short/longterm memories will be shot full of holes when on benzos for a while. even one night of benzo usage and you will forget most of the night, mix in a beer by accident and the whole night will be erased.
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- analogmemory 8y agoMost people recognize that as Ambien https://popula.com/2018/07/22/the-ambien-diaries/ https://popula.com/2018/07/22/the-ambien-diaries/
- firethief 8y agoAmbien is not a benzo. The bizarre behaviour it causes seems to be related to sleepwalking, which is not a common side effect of benzodiazepines.
- djsumdog 8y agoI met someone who was on a clinical trial for Ambien. He'd pass out almost immediately, but first he'd see crazy wild hallucinations. But only for like 15 seconds to a minute. When it was finally released on the market, the dosage was a fraction of what he had take in his clinical trial.
- hutzlibu 8y agoI think you have to feel really crazy adventurous or desperate for money, to become a guinea pig for new drugs, that mess with your brain ...
- rubatuga 8y agoTake enough “xan’s” and you’re describing the same effects
- jck 8y agoBenzos have anxiolytic effects. I think OPs premise is a drug that has no psychoactive effects (apart from the no long term memory thing)
- dhekir 8y agoCan it or has it been used for UX testing? Having a way to "reset" people for interface testing would be useful. Preferably without side effects, of course.
- deno 8y agoDrugging people with hypnotics to test your shitty UI? This is the most HN thing I’ve seen in a long time ;)
- cryoshon 8y agokind of, but not exactly. benzos wipe out most of your ability to inhibit behavior along with your ability to form memories. it practically guarantees that you're a mess. your concentration goes to shit, along with most of your higher functions... at least at the quantity that it takes to make you black out. there are a lot of stories about what happens when the "xan man" (the xanax overdose state) comes out to play. most of them are bad.