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So great, now maybe we can optimize your
drugs
and your doses, but the problem today is, we're still using this amazing technology to keep track of our
drugs.
PillPack was just acquired by Amazon, so soon we may have same-day delivery of our drugs, delivered by drone.
And of course, these would be doses and combinations you could already take together, FDA-approved
drugs.
And we'd start with, again, generic
drugs
for the most common problems.
About 90 percent of prescribed
drugs
today are low-cost generics.
Just like we have different colored eyes and hair, we metabolize
drugs
differently based on the variation in our genomes.
And once we know how those molecules have changed, whether they've increased in number or changed in pattern, we could use those as targets for new drugs, for new ways of delivering energy into the brain in order to repair the brain computations that are afflicted in patients who suffer from brain disorders.
We can build
drugs
that bind those.
Can we actually pinpoint the molecular changes in a tumor so that we can actually go after it in a smart way and deliver
drugs
that might wipe out exactly the cells that we want to?
The other bummer going on here is that we're quickly moving all the
drugs
we take into our waterways.
The average wastewater treatment plant can remove maybe half of the
drugs
that come in.
In order to save lives, it's going to try using drones to deliver lifesaving drugs, vaccines and blood to people in hard-to-reach places in partnership with a company called Zipline, with UPS, and also with the Gavi, a global vaccine alliance.
Working-class kids are much more likely to face what's called adverse childhood experiences, which is just a fancy word for childhood trauma: getting hit or yelled at, put down by a parent repeatedly, watching someone hit or beat your parent, watching someone do
drugs
or abuse alcohol.
They're more likely to do drugs, more likely to go to jail, more likely to drop out of high school, and most importantly, they're more likely to do to their children what their parents did to them.
In a way, much more powerful than the kind of tools we're looking at, because most of what's being done today is to rely on things like anti-malarial
drugs.
And we know that, although it's great to make those anti-malarial
drugs
available at really low cost and high frequency, we know that when you make them highly available you're going to get resistance to those
drugs.
What I'm suggesting here is that we could get evolution working in the direction we want it to go, rather than always having to battle evolution as a problem that stymies our efforts to control the pathogen, for example with anti-malarial
drugs.
And so also for patients like Ehud that are going through these nasty, nasty chemotherapy drugs, for them not to suffer through those horrendous side effects of the
drugs
when the
drugs
are in fact not even helping them.
We put some veterans on heavy
drugs.
We'd have three basic rules, OK? Obviously no drugs; no corruption, no skills.
New
drugs
kept them healthy.
In fact, everyone at school knew the block where we lived, because it was where people came to buy weed and other
drugs.
By the 1950s, we instead knew that tuberculosis was caused by a highly contagious bacterial infection, which is slightly less romantic, but that had the upside of us being able to maybe develop
drugs
to treat it.
Thankfully, since the 1950s, we've developed some other
drugs
and we can actually now cure tuberculosis.
And those two things together, right, one or the two, may not have been that important, but the two together meant that we had to develop safer drugs, and that serotonin seemed like a pretty good place to start.
So we developed
drugs
to more specifically focus on serotonin, the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, so the SSRIs, the most famous of which is Prozac.
And that was 30 years ago, and since then we have mostly just worked on optimizing those
drugs.
There are a lot of patients where these
drugs
don't work.
And that means now, in 2016, we still have no cures for any mood disorders, just
drugs
that suppress symptoms, which is kind of the difference between taking a painkiller for an infection versus an antibiotic.
But unlike those other drugs, which were recognized pretty quickly, it took us 20 years to realize that Calypsol was an antidepressant, despite the fact that it's actually a better antidepressant, probably, than those other
drugs.
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