Anti-Suicide Spray

US Army grants $3 million for anti-suicide nasal spray research

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Published: 19 August, 2012, 00:57

TAGS: Health, Military, Drugs, USA, War, Army

For those feeling down in the dumps, the US military now has a solution: an anti-suicidal nasal spray that delivers antidepressant chemicals to the brain.

­The US Army has awarded a scientist at the Indiana University School of Medicine $3 million to develop a nasal spray that eclipses suicidal thoughts. Dr. Michael Kubek and his research team will have three years to ascertain whether the nasal spray is a safe and effective method of preventing suicides.

The research grant comes after the Army lost 38 of its soldiers to suspected suicide in July, setting a record high. So far in 2012, the Army has confirmed 66 active duty suicides and is investigating 50 more, making a total of 116 cases.

The Army’s suicide rate is at the highest level in history, with more American soldiers taking their own lives than being killed by the Taliban. The Pentagon reported in June that suicides among soldiers averaged one per day this year, surpassing the rate of combat fatalities.

But the naturally occurring neurochemical thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) could slow the rising suicide rate. The chemical has a euphoric, calming, antidepressant effect. TRH has been shown to decrease suicidal ideas, depression and bipolar disorders.

“We’ve known since the 1970s that TRH has antidepressant effects, and it works quite rapidly,” Kubek told The Daily. “The bottom-line problem has been figuring out how to get it into the brain.”

Until now, doctors have only been able to transmit TRH through injections into the spinal cord. Pills and blood injections do not allow TRH to enter the brain.

But with new technology, Kubek’s team of research scientists has found the nasal cavity can safely carry TRH across the blood-brain barrier.

“This is far from a soldiers-only solution,” Kubek said. “Potentially, if this works, we have an entirely new type of pharmacology.”

If the nasal spray is proven effective, soldiers in crisis or those taking other antidepressants would also be given TRH.

“The phase directly after starting an antidepressant is a very vulnerable time frame in a patient’s life,” Dr. Ken Duckworth, medical director for the National Alliance on Mental Illness, told The Daily. “The nasal spray would stabilize them right away, while they wait for the [antidepressants] to do their job.”

While the suicide rate is increasing in the military, it is also an increasing concern in the US civilian population.

Suicide is the fourth leading cause of death for adults between the ages of 18 and 65 years. Every day, more than 100 Americans take their own life.

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Addition by Doctor Morris:

The America people are so accustomed to the waste of tax money that an article like this is such a cognitive distortion (just pass it over, everything will work out). Cognitive distortion that the scientific mind will pay little attention. If spraying an exotic chemical up the nose, effecting the brain and mind activity, is reliable, then we have the greatest scientific discovery of many centuries. Or, we have the greatest waste-hoax involving tax dollars. Just think, to control neurons involving suicide, why not addictions? (sex, sin, political decadence, etc)

I was involved in the MK Ultra project of the Korean war era, beginning in 1950's ending "supposedly" in 1964. This project involved the use of many methodologies to manipulate people's individual mental states and alter brain functions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra).

For years, I have talked about this project, subliminal perception, it is a fact, not fiction, that the American people have been dumbed down by messages on the television screen of which they are not aware. Why else would we be so stupid? Oh, the simplicity of just a nasal spray ending suicide, ending theatre and mosque war massacres. If only these scientists at Indiana or somewhere would design a subliminal message for the screen, or a spray which would bring us to our senses, would at least help Christians in the warfare, "against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places] (Eph 6:12).