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Past research shows that more than 85 percent of US adults who are dependent on alcohol are also dependent on nicotine, but why do the two go hand in hand?
Now, a new study with rats finds that nicotine cancels out the sleep-inducing effects of alcohol.
"We know that many people who drink alcohol also use nicotine, but we don't know why exactly that is," says Mahesh Thakkar, associate professor and director of research in the University of Missouri School of Medicine's neurology department and lead author of the study.
"We have found that nicotine weakens the sleep-inducing effects of alcohol by stimulating a response in an area of the brain known as the basal forebrain. By identifying the reactions that take place when people smoke and drink, we may be able to use this knowledge to help curb alcohol and nicotine addiction."
http://www.futurity.org/smoking-drinking-1036052-2/
[Abstract]: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jnc.13219/abstract
[Source]: http://medicine.missouri.edu/news/0305.php
(Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Sunday November 01 2015, @11:06PM
Maybe the answer to many of society's problems is to reintroduce predators into urban settings to weed out the unfit.
I could get behind this suggestion. However, I don't think it will have the end result you desire. Not everybody is an überman who defeats disease by simply roundhouse kicking it. However, those who understand a proper application of medicine (had yet another case of proving to somebody that SSRIs are a no-no recently) will do much better against leopards, wolves, bear cavalry or whatever you want to deploy than a delusional überman who isn't old enough to have become sick at least once. (I don't mean sneezy.)