Taking a pill in place of a bad pill

16.03.09 / The frontiers of medicine / Author: Kevster

For the longest time, medicine has proved to be one of the funniest fields of knowledge in the world. For example, for a time people believed that LSD could be a potential remedy for people who drank too much alcohol. The same goes for methadone addicts who had been hoodwinked into take the drug in place of heroine.

Now the global giant Pfizer has released Chantix. Hopefully this anti-smoking pill would be doing more good than its other counterparts in the past decades. Usually, when you have to take something to wean yourself from an addiction, it won’t work.