Nigeria [column]: Pills for Everything

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There was, believe it or not, also a pill to deal with fear, defined in the pamphlet as "a feeling of uneasiness, anxiety, agitation or concern as a result of an impending danger." (That, if I may say so, would be a useful pill to have in one's pocket as the count down to election year 2007 one begins.)The extent to which the culture of pill taking has taken hold in our society is illustrated by a made-in-Nigeria television commercial that I saw the other day.

It opens with a board meeting in progress.

Everyone in the room is looking wide awake except this poor fellow whose general appearance suggests that he has a cold, a headache, a lower back pain and a hangover.

The camera is panned to the man sitting to his left who, with a knowing look, whips out a sachet of pills and offers it to the sufferer.

The sufferer pops one into his mouth and in the blink of an eye he is bubbling with life again.The list of pills currently in use is long enough, but I believe there are still some gaps that scientists may try to fill.

For example, with so many people carrying around with them an excess baggage of bad memories, there surely is a need for a pill to induce amnesia, making people forget their problems even if only temporarily.

Bottled alcohol already serves this purpose, but imagine how much less unobtrusive a capsule of 75 per cent proof whisky would be.The reverse side of the coin would be a pill for memory improvement - what t...

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