Yet Another Pill
In the largest clinical study of its kind, researchers at the University of Minnesota found that daily doses of an experimental drug called nalmefene, often used to treat alcoholism, appeared to curb the craving to gamble.
The research represents the latest effort to control the biology of misbehavior at a time when celebrity poker, online gambling, lotteries and sports betting have helped to make obsessive wagering a national psychiatric disorder.
Pills are the substitute for sanctifying grace. The older I get, the more I believe that. I remember one woman telling my wife that almost every woman she knows is on some sort of anti-depressant or similar emotional medicine. My wife and I talked about it and concluded that she doesn't need pills because (i) she has a bunch of little kids and can't spend much time thinking about herself, and (ii) she keeps her soul in a state of sanctifying grace; the sin doesn't accumulate and kill everything that makes a person happy.
Just a theory.
