Solving the "opioid crisis"

[inthesomeday]

Penicillin is one of the greatest discoveries in human history. There are so many common diseases that were life threatening that now we don't even think about because of antibiotics.

I was joking

 

[El_Machinae]

if we're going to all die it's going to be from some antibiotic immune super bug

I tend to be Mr. Medical Research, which is why I bang the drum begging for people to donate to mental health research charities (seriously). But even I have trouble finding charities that work on antibiotics. Scary as heck. The best I can do is help with vaccines, it seems, but it's just not the same thing.

 

[Synobun]

I tend to be Mr. Medical Research, which is why I bang the drum begging for people to donate to mental health research charities (seriously). But even I have trouble finding charities that work on antibiotics. Scary as heck. The best I can do is help with vaccines, it seems, but it's just not the same thing.

Phage therapy, my man.

 

[El_Machinae]

Oh, I am passingly familiar with the underlying technologies. I just tend to not see any charities that target this area actively enough, in a massive kind of way. There's a minimum threshold of investment that's required to move the ball forward, which is why I donate my "desperate poverty" earmark to vaccine-related charity. But I've just not seen antibiotic ones. I still put mental health as the lowest-hanging fruit, but gods we'd better be ready with antibiotics before we need them.