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(02-12-2016, 10:13 AM)Findarato Veneanar Wrote: Stabiline doesn't treat the effects of cardamine, it's just a replacement made by cryer that the house governments can tax, literally the only thing different about it is that it does not alter the addicts DNA, the rest of the side effects, other than the biochemical dependency(which we all know doesn't mean no addiction), are the same.
Not exactly. All it does is prevents withdrawls being lethal. It doesn't have any of the source drug's positive or recreational effects.
Originally it was also going to have a lot of nasty side effects on account of being largely untested. Consequently it was going to be used almost exclusively on prison populations as Guinea Pigs.
Tl;dr - stabiline is a band-aid not a cure, is hideously expensive and may have long and or short term repercussions to use.