Josh #10

You wrote:

I mean, ………. drugs? Is Obama still smoking, or is he addled by Chantix, or what?

The Chantix exacerbation of psychiatric symptoms is a real and, at times, quite alarming phenomenon.

I was very surprised at the severity of the symptoms induced in patients I was seeing when I saw it for the first time (I am a consulting psychiatrist and do not prescribe smoking-cessation agents myself).

Varenicline (the generic name for Chantix) is an interesting agent, a partial agonist of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor. Jean-Pierre Changeux, the great French molecular biologist, first elucidated the structure of this receptor, the first such structure ever worked out.

Jamie Irons