Jag tycker att detta är ohyggligt otrevligt att läsa om. Vem bestämmer vad som är missbruk och när gränsen för lobotomi för individen är nådd?
Har vi ett sunt samhälle när allt likriktas i effektiviseringens tecken?
Med tanke på att den som röker lite bong på helgen faktiskt klassas som narkoman i Sverige kan sånt här vara otrevliga påminnelser om vart intoleransen kan leda. Angående hjärnoperationer för att bota drogberoende; ett avblåst experiment. Saxat från drugsense.org:
”25) RUSSIA BANS BRAIN SURGERY ON DRUG ADDICTS
A series of controversial brain operations pioneered by St
Petersburg scientists as a cure to drug addiction has been halted by
Russian authorities after a patient complained of damaging
side-effects.
The operations, which began at the institute of the human brain in St
Petersburg in 1999, removed a part of the brain associated with
addiction. The programme has so far treated 335 patients, but the
prosecutor’s office in St Petersburg ordered an end to the operations
on Monday after a former patient won a court case against the
institute.
[snip]
The operation is one of several controversial anti-addiction
treatments used in Russia. In the technique, a small hole is cut in
the scalp, and a hole drilled in the skull. The doctors prefer not
to put their patient under a general anaesthetic so they can monitor
their responses as they probe the brain. About one cubic millimetre
of tissue is taken from each hemisphere of the brain.
[snip]
Pubdate: Fri, 09 Aug 2002
Source: Guardian, The (UK)
Copyright: 2002 Guardian Newspapers Limited
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/175 ”