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Nanodrugs

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Ripheus23

Ripheus23

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How much research has been done on this topic, if any? (Is any possible at this time?) Any science fiction writers who've written stories where nanotechnology was put to psychoactive use?

I would think that pretty much every drug humanity has done to this point might end up paling next to drugs of that kind. Then again, it might be that the stuff we've done has already pushed us to our psychoactive limits...
 
I saw a story on 60 minutes a few years back about a man who was designing a cancer treatment from nanoparticles. The metal nanoparticles were designed in such a way that they only latch onto cancer cells. Then the patient is lit with radio waves, which cause the nanoparticles to heat up and destroy the cancer cells they are attached to.

I could be incorrect, but that's what I remember about the story.

And upon further research, I found that a lot of people are very excited about this nanoparticle-radiation treatment as a cure for cancer.


Ohhhh... You said "psychoactive use". I don't know about that. I think that the CIA, in their MKULTRA search for a mind-control agent, settled on a drug called BZ. I've never heard of nanoparticles with psychoactive properties, but I wouldn't want such a thing floating around in my brain as I can't really imagine how it would find its way out. Nanoparticles used as psychoactive agents may act in a permanent way once they find their place in the brain. This is an interesting possibility. If nootropic nanoparticles were developed, I'm sure people would be lining up to get injections.
 
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