Pravda, reporting on how to cure addictive behavior.

[Q Classic]

Pravda's newest report

The effect is astounding: a patient starts seeing only bright colors in the surrounding world

Russian scientists from the city of Novosibirsk, Siberia, made a sensational report at the international conference devoted to new methods of treatment and rehabilitation in narcology. The report was called 'Methods of painful impact to treat addictive behavior.'

Siberian scientists believe that addiction to alcohol and narcotics, as well as depression, suicidal thoughts and psychosomatic diseases occur when an individual loses his or her interest in life. The absence of the will to live is caused with decreasing production of endorphins - the substance, which is known as the hormone of happiness. If a depressed individual receives a physical punishment...

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Yes, nothing new here. Pravda is a sensationalist crap tabloid which makes up it's stories. A good target comparison example from US would be Weekly World News. I wouldn't be suprised if they'd some day have a headline like "Elvis never died, he just went home to meet his family of space aliens".

[BeBMan]

If punishment doesn't cure depression then I don't know what ever could.....

[Arrian]

"Best investigating reporting on the planet! Go ahead, read the New York Times, they get lucky sometimes."



-Arrian

[Whoha]

"The beatings will continue until morale improves."

[realpolitic]

So is Abu Grahib one of the happiest places on earth?

[Q Classic]

It's not a matter of happiness. It's a matter of curing them of addiction.

[Gangerolf]

Jihad can be very addictive

[The Emperor Fabulous]

A person will respond in some way to any physical punishment. The problem is that physical punishment often leads one to make a decision based on the best way to alliviate the physical punishment.

I'd like to know the history of Russian experimentation with holistic medicine. I know of no such study.

[Proteus_MST]

Did the patients and their "tormentors" wear leather during these sessions? And were the patients bound to the St. Andrews cross during punishment?