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How Snorting Can Make You More Popular

By Jessica Ruvinsky | October 26, 2007 4:23 pm

Snorting restores social graces, scientists find. A nasal spray of a mind-altering antibiotic called D-cycloserine can help cure chronic shyness. People also sniff the drug (which was supposed to fight tuberculosis) to combat a crippling fear of spiders.

Now if we could only cure tuberculosis…

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