Pleasure
May, 2014
The pharmaceutical industry has been almostexclusively focused on the management of painand depression.But what happened tochemical hedonism1?Modern medicine has neglected pleasure. With major depressive disorder being the leading cause of disability in the United States for people between the ages of 15 and 44, there is an urgent need to treat depression and, arguably, a somewhat less urgent need to better the lives of already well people. How could the medicinal chemist think of something so g...
