From: rsw@therandymon.com   
      
   On 2016-05-18, JAB  wrote:   
   > Medical mystery: How tainted drugs "froze" young people-but   
   > kickstarted Parkinson’s research   
   >   
   > Decades later, trials of stem cell treatments are about to begin.   
   >   
   > "In 1982, a tainted drug caused a handful of young Californians to   
   > become mysteriously frozen, unable to move. Their doctor’s ensuing   
   > investigation helped catalyze the start of modern Parkinson’s disease   
   > research, which is on the verge of its first clinical stem cell   
   > trials.   
      
      
      
   I saw this linked at Hacker News as well, and read it.  What a horror.   
   Guess if you're already addicted to heroin you're used to bad things   
   happening, but imagine shooting up and suddenly your body crashes but inside   
   you are conscious ... stuff of nightmares.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)