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Posted by Stephen Johnson - Tuesday, November 06, 2007 1:23 PM

Do you like the exciting rush of smoking crack cocaine, but tire of the constant trips to seedy alleys to cop? Duke University professor Zach Rosenthal has just the solution for you. He has created a crack-smoking simulator to allow you to enjoy crack without leaving your house. Word is there is even a glass-pipe attachment for your Wiimote.

...Oh, wait. The point of the simulator isn't to glamorize drug use, it's to cure addicts of their addiction.

"What we're trying to do is take people into a virtual crack-related neighborhood or crack-related setting and have them experience cravings, just like they would in the real world," Rosenthal said. Then the addict doesn't do crack in the game, his craving subsides, and somehow, the lack of virtual crack smoking makes crack-heads not want to do crack in real life.

The scientists plan to attach a signal, like a tone, to the feeling of the cessation of cravings, so addicts can call a phone number, hear that special tone, and be like, "No more crack for me!"

We don't get it either, but we would like to suggest World of Warcraft as a crack substitute. Sure it's a worse addiction in a lot of ways, but you don't have to do dirty things to Bob Saget for your WOW fix.

ABC New: Virtual Reality Game Helps Drug Addicts Recovery




Comment(s)

Posted by ManOfTeal - Tuesday, November 6, 2007 1:42 PM

Crack is wack.....

Posted by EducatingEric - Tuesday, November 6, 2007 2:34 PM

hell yes

Posted by S14DGENER8 - Tuesday, November 6, 2007 2:34 PM

why are they all black?

Posted by SpotRamer - Tuesday, November 6, 2007 2:35 PM

Why they all got to be balck in that picture? I know some white folks that smoke that crack, meth, crank, ice! Actually I dont know any black folks that smoke Ice, meth, or Crank. Funny.

Posted by hetman - Tuesday, November 6, 2007 2:52 PM

Here is the thing. I have never smoked crack. But I do love me some beer. And when I start watching movies that have drinking in it, It makes me want to have a beer. It seems like if I was a crackhead and I saw people smoking crack even in a video game it would make me want to do it more not less.

Posted by staychisel (BANNED) - Tuesday, November 6, 2007 3:16 PM

i've actually personally known or had a mutual friend of several white people who smoked crack. never have known any black people who've smoked crack.

Posted by Spiderish - Tuesday, November 6, 2007 4:01 PM

I've known a number of people White, Black and Hispanic that smoke/smoked crack, if the calostome bag who came up with this idea gets fired because he didn't include other ethnicities then, Huzzah! This is a pretty bone-headed idea though.

Posted by Memento - Tuesday, November 6, 2007 5:30 PM

Where's the heroin simulator?! I'm disappointed. . .


I wanted to attach a syringe peripheral to my Wiimote!

Posted by 1and0nly - Tuesday, November 6, 2007 5:39 PM

"...but tire of the constant trips to seedy alleys to cop?"

It's 'cope', dumbass.

Posted by 1and0nly - Tuesday, November 6, 2007 5:41 PM

"...but tire of the constant trips to seedy alleys to cop?"

It's 'cope', dumbass.

Posted by schwiz - Tuesday, November 6, 2007 9:49 PM

sounds like the developers have been doing a lot of 'research'

Posted by Spiderish - Wednesday, November 7, 2007 8:38 AM

Posted by 1and0nly - Tuesday, November 06, 2007 5:41 PM
"...but tire of the constant trips to seedy alleys to cop?"

It's 'cope', dumbass.


Wrong there buddy, they're referring to a slang term for buying drugs, one of which is called cop.

FAIL!

Posted by georgee - Saturday, June 21, 2008 5:18 AM

This is really retarded but i guess games are going to be more like real life then PC, but yeah crack is wack...Right whitney? The only thing you should be smoking out of [url=http://www.theglasspipe.c om]glass pipes[/url] is a fat bowl of headies

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