From the Imperial College rag mag:

“I’d rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy.”

It keeps bobbing around in my memory as to how clever it is.

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty is a 2021 book by Patrick Radden Keefe.

The author tells how the early sacklers, while working in a psychiatric hospital, were so horrified by electroshock therapy and the increasing willingness of other doctors to prescribe lobotomies, they they purchased a rabbit to test compounds on, allegedly stumping across Thorazine based on something one of them remembered from medical school.

This eventually lead to Purdue Pharma and the opioid crisis…

Also interesting, the man behind the Novel prize, Alfred Nobel, gained wealth and fame by inventing dynamite, critic argue that the novel prize was a way to rescue his reputation after having created explosives which would go on to be used as weapons..