How Would Super Safe Pleasure Drugs Change The World? "Nicotine, Cotinine, and Its Possible Value"

  The opioid crisis has been a burden for society and some think that there may be ways to solve this by methods found in lab research.

  Some think these issues may be solvable by something like cotinine, which is like nicotine "with the same letters spelled sidewise sort of". It's a metabolite from tobacco, used mostly in legal proof of whether the person is smoking or not like in the workplace..but it's non drowsy, not habit forming, and so far research shows that it doesn't have any adverse events, truly a smokeless cigarette not to chew on..

Valentine Escheverria is a scientist currently doing research in South Florida, working at a Veterans Hospital there to help the veterans heal well and has gotten cotanine patents. Clinical trials are underway.

Click Here for the Justia patent site if you like and hope you may feel good eventually for clicking this link!

 

 Cotinine is now available by prescription as the safety is becoming established though it's not yet widely prescribed.  

 There were those who believed in the 80s that by now we would have super safe pleasure drugs and so they would make us all feel lucked out and all is well. You know, "I love my life, hug the world!"

 However Imagine 2 Neanderthals in evolution..

 The first, Greg, he feels bad part of time, so he goes out and he stops all the bad press. The bison will stampede away wherever they go, and people who follow are thriving and flourishing.

 But the second neanderthal, Grog, he feels so good he doesn't do a darn thing much. And so as time goes on, he doesn't survive as often. So it's sort of built into our genes not to have super much pleasure.

This is known as hedonistic adaptation.. what makes you feel good at first eventually you get tired of like being tickled with a feather in your ear for 20 hours..

This has been shown in studies about the lottery winners after they win.. three years later, research shows that they feel about the same as they did before, or even just that 3/4 of them also either spend or lose all their money in 5 years is considered evidence that no one is really guaranteed absolute pleasure in living.

 

 Even so while most people couldn't feel extreme pleasure this way it would still be valuable for people who have brain health issues.

It's been found that cotinine heals brain illness, reversing even late stage memory loss and Alzheimer's. It could help people reduce the influence of heroin, help people with overweight or debt or other stress related events such as nicotine overuse. I imagine cotinine might be added to every food there is including soft drinks to even out achieve caffeine in sales.

 While cotinine may be a step in the right direction for people who are stressed, it might ruin other people's lives. They may make us feel too darn good!

I would think having good brain health in general would outweigh feeling good all the time. I mean, almost!

Because pleasure in living is often a strength, since cotinine doesn't cause drowsiness or addiction it might be a true cognitive and fitness booster because it would seem that it's more naturally attuned to the brain by millions of years of evolution. Most other cognitive boosters like stimulants have been found to only give the value by stressing another part of the system, something not yet found not yet at least for cotinine.

 Alexander the Great was saying about how "Sugar beets would be honey without the bee" and this seems it would be cigarettes without the nicotine. 

(Research shows that geniuses aren't shy and retiring as have been previously thought but rather continually light their own fire with ambition not smokes.) 

According to sources like Discover Magazine or Scientific American, it's recently been found that nicotine itself is not habit forming but rather it's the chemicals that surround it in the cigarette that cause it to be addictive. 

 If this really is true and I for one don't even necessarily believe this it seems so shocking for now at any rate even with plausible science being done about this, then people who would want to use nicotine itself for purposes like for cotinine may face a real struggle to get anybody even to believe them. Even if it has value like for quitting smoking cigarettes what else? One problem with nicotine even so is that it's already been found to be carcinogenic.

 Supposedly cotinine has not yet been found to have this problem and so the owners of the patents on cotanine and a lot of people who want more pleasure in living, are holding their breath while not coughing one bit! A cure for hiccups.. I'm not holding my breath!