Question

Have people yet created a good drug that can actually increase hapiness for an entire life-span? Not like the crappy drugs (alcohol, opiates and all other well-known drugs used by not well informed people) that increase hapiness for a very selective time-span and then destroy all kinds of natural processes creating chaos in the brain and unhapiness for the entire life-span?

I would like to ask the same questions for features other than hapinnes. (e.g.: life-span increases without disturbing effects of features like memory, the concentration of deep sleep, awakeness,...)

Answer 1

Or do good long-working drugs, that do not disturb their own purpose or other natural processes on the longer term, do not exist yet?

And then maybe the changing of human DNA will become the first technology that can actually increase features that humans love.

Answer 2

I don´t think that cognitive functions and movement will still operate when a certain degree of hapiness is reached, because all lusts will be canceled out.

But it will be interesting to see how the reaching of this situation will evolve, maybe people will make an automated reproduction process in the early stages of great hapiness. But eventually, because people stop to think the universe will probably make mankind go extinct.

Answer 3

Due to greed, they will firstly change DNA more subjective to lust lol. But honestly, current tests on such topics are being acted out. Mostly failure should be expected due to current technology.

Answer 4

try searching for mania, depression and bipolar disorder. ......The drug used in the treatment..........of these disorders........and their side effects.......
Emotions are controlled by brain and it involves, special areas like amygdala, hippocampus, frontal cortex etc along with a lot of neural pathways and neurotransmitters. Manipulating these pathways with drugs or surgeries can produce certain effects at the cost of some useful abilities and side effects.

Answer 5

Damiaan Denys, a renowned Belgian Psychiatrist based in Amsterdam once told me about the ethical dilemma's of artificial happiness.
Deep brain stimulation, once created to help the most extreme cases of tardive dyskinesia in Parkinson's disease has been tested in clinical depression with impressive results, in fact, in some cases, the outcome was so positive they felt like they went too far, as patients seemed irrationally happy.
Professor Denys also asked his team the question: "What if somebody would be ready to donate gigantic sums of money to get one of there devices not to cure any phychological suffering, but to boost his happiness?".
So yes, though it's a medical device and not a drug, we actually create and induce happiness. And that is just as scary as it sounds.