New Study: Rats Who Drink Less Avoid Alcoholism

The WSJ has:

Scientists Find 'Happyhour' Gene

..... There are a bunch of cancer drugs that inhibit the cellular proteins stimulated by EGF. The researchers gave one of the drugs, Tarceva, to rats that were already used to consuming large amounts of alcohol. They then presented the rats with both alcohol and water, and let the animals make the choice. The rats reduced their alcohol consumption, favoring water, Heberlein tells us.

Heberlein says she’d like to find out whether Tarceva has the same effect in humans. She notes that it took relatively low doses of Tarceva in rats to have that effect, so there’s some hope that it would also be possible to use a low dose of the drug in people. That’s important, since it could be a problem to give high doses of powerful cancer drugs to patients who don’t have cancer. .....

..... The study was funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the Department of Defense and the state of California. Genentech and OSI Pharmaceuticals donated the Tarceva, Heberlein said. .....

Does it occur to You, ..... that if You were being Poisoned with a Drug to treat Cancer, that You might feel shitty enough Not to want to tie one on, on Top of it?

See the Bonkers Institute for:

Utilization Of Placebo Rat Poison In Clinical Trials: Raising The Bar From Sugar Pill To Rodenticide

This Bureaucracy on a Drunken Treadmill is Why a toilet seat on a aircraft carrier costs thousands of dollars.

Our Department of Defense is funding the Poisoning of Rats with drugs to treat Cancer, to keep them off the Hootch which the Department of Defense is Buying for those Rats in the 1st place, ..... with the end game being the expanded marketing approval/infliction of a Drug to Treat a Real Disease: Cancer.