Pills to make you forget

[Pyraxis]

http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/issues/memory_manage_index.html

On the near horizon are a slew of new pharmaceuticals that we call memory management drugs. Some of these aim to improve memory safely. Other drugs are designed to help people dim or to erase the sort of memories that haunt those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

In the next five to ten years, these memory-enhancing and memory-diminishing drugs are bound to raise important freedom of thought issues. The CCLE sees a great deal of potential in these pharmaceuticals, while at the same time we seek to identify future legal complications and threats to cognitive liberty, which may arise if used coercively.

For instance, what if emergency room personnel automatically begin giving memory-diminishing drugs to trauma victims? What if you are the victim of a violent crime and want to forget what happened to you, but need those memories in order to testify or identify the perpetrator? What if you are the only eye-witness to a crime, could the government compel you to take a memory-boosting drug at least until you testify in court?

What do you think?

[GalileoAce]

Can I have the pills that make you remember?

[Parts]

I think it's some what scary.  Where it might be good for some instances I think it could easily be abused and over used.  Bad things have happened to me but they are a part of me and I don't think I would want to give   up those memories because they make me who I am.  As for compelling people to remember thats not right either unless the person wants i

[Calandale]

I want pills that give me exciting new memories. 

[Soph]

i would be VERY tempted to take something like that for a few things that happened when i was younger

i think it's probably a bad idea in general though

[Parts]

I want pills that give me exciting new memories. 

I had those in college but they weren't pills but little squares of paper

[Rabbit From Hell]

I want pills that give me exciting new memories. 

Mewtoo!

[vodz]

MDMA pills? Can I has?

[Pyraxis]

i would be VERY tempted to take something like that for a few things that happened when i was younger

At the moment, they have to be taken within a few hours of the traumatic event. I imagine ones reaching that far into the past would be much harder to develop... how would you get them to target those specific memories and not others?

[Soph]

i would be VERY tempted to take something like that for a few things that happened when i was younger

At the moment, they have to be taken within a few hours of the traumatic event. I imagine ones reaching that far into the past would be much harder to develop... how would you get them to target those specific memories and not others?

I have no idea, unlikely anything like that will be around any time soon lol
I would definitely like the idea of it though

[Parts]

Xanax does this to me if I take too much it can erase an entire night from one or two hours before I take it till I sleep

[Calandale]

I want pills that give me exciting new memories. 

I had those in college but they weren't pills but little squares of paper

Not the same though. You actually experience those
in real time, no? I want more memories. Kinda like deja
vu.

[vodz]

Video about the use of psychedelics in psychoanalysis/psychotherapy:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6540905926032767614

[Peter]

i would be VERY tempted to take something like that for a few things that happened when i was younger

At the moment, they have to be taken within a few hours of the traumatic event. I imagine ones reaching that far into the past would be much harder to develop... how would you get them to target those specific memories and not others?

Cannabinoids have been found to suppress traumatic memories.  I don't know if it works for past events, or only for things that happen while the brain's cannabinoid levels are elevated.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2616-natural-high-helps-banish-bad-memories.html

[Parts]

He is an abuse nobodies mentioned committing a crime the dosing the victims so they forget and can't identify you or even have anything to tell the police.