The first experimental study in humans connecting beta-blockers and memory suggests these drugs, usually taken to treat heart conditions, can also wipe away the emotions associated with frightening memories. The power of such memories could be dampened when a person thinks about the traumatic events after taking the drugs, scientists say.
This is very interesting. I can see in some instances where it could be useful. In a disorder it could be very useful. But I can also see this drug being abused, with some serious repercussions. Nobody wants to feel emotional pain, but it can be our strength also. Sometimes it's better to feel pain then to feel nothing at all. Although of course there are exceptions; say a rape victim, they don't need to relive the terror over and over.
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." - Stephen Hawking
No drug can ever erase or wipe out a memory. All memories can be retrieved and felt provided one's mind is in decent shape and one's nerve organs are intact.
Drugs can inhibit a person's perception of the present environment and drugs can inhibit one's perception of past environments (memories), but drugs cannot erase memories.
They can also alter perceptions of environments. That's why people who take mind altering drugs, including psychiatric drugs, think that the drugs help them & cause them no harm. Their perceptions & ability to perceive are altered by the drugs.
No one has any right to force data on you
and command you to believe it or else.
If it is not true for you, it isn't true. LRH
