[ferociouskite56]

Xanax/benzos are the most effective psych medicine, deserve to be over the counter, but can be fatally overdosed. All mental drugs and others such as chemotherapy need to be precisely targeted at limited part of an organ.

2030 4 high-NA EUV fabs will have 1.4 nano RiscV chips; rollable microLED; solid state battery. That's still not paper thin all day phones.

1 passenger, only autopilot drones should transport snakebite victims in dangerous countries.

[samuellevy]

How big of a problem are "snake bite victims"? I live in Australia, one of those countries that people would class as "dangerous" with regards to snakes, and... There's only been about 40 deaths in the past 20 years...

It's just a really strange thing to ping as a "big problem to solve", and such a bizarrely expensive solution to the problem, too. I think that a much better solution would be improving development and access to antivenin

[ferociouskite56]

"130,000 deaths and over 300,000 paralyzing injuries and amputations last year." https://www.dw.com/en/snakebites-kill-at-least-80000-people-...

Dangerous in terms of crime rate, false arrests that human pilots won't accept hazard pay for. Rural people have either no clinic or poorly trained nurse with limited supplies. Urgently going to nearest hospital, refrigerated pharmacy. Also other medical emergencies such as heart attack or moving into a city lacking roads.

I've been prescribed Xanax since 2004 and at worst used low dose 3 times a day when around negative strangers, the rest of the time none. Certainly alcohol's worse.

[defrost]

The 130K per annum figure is a global death count.

This is serious, other causes of death more so, e.g:

    The Global status report on road safety 2018, launched by WHO in December 2018, highlights that the number of annual road traffic deaths has reached 1.35 million. Road traffic injuries are now the leading killer of people aged 5-29 years.

That's 10 motor vehicle deaths for every snake bite death.

It's certainly possible for both to be addressed and it's certain there are parts of the world with more snake caused deaths than road fatalities.

[leksak]

In my experience benzos are effective in the same sense alcohol can be. They don't really solve anything, not to mention are highly addicting.

I'm sincerely doubtful that being able to target their impact more tomorrow the brain alone makes a reasonable difference.

Getting at the mental health crisis might take a multipronged approach but I'm not sure this is an essential prong but I'm open to arguments to the contrary.

[jacknews]

They also have a debilitating effect on IQ and coherence (just temporary I believe), which is maybe in evidence here.

[pg_bot]

There's absolutely no reason for benzos to be over the counter. They're extremely addictive, can have really bad side effects and contraindications, and can be fatal during withdrawal. You should be under the supervision of a physician if you're taking them.

[fb03]

You must be joking. Xanax/Benzos are highly addictive and all they do is shove whatever problem you have for "the next day", just like alcohol. They don't treat shit.

[atmosx]

No.

These are harmful drugs if not taken with care. In the long run they can very easily have the opposite effect, like cause or accelerate depression.