Originally published at: https://eldraeverse.com/2020/03/01/front-effects/
While perfection is our delight, perfection is also profoundly dangerous where it interacts with imperfection. In the world of pharmacology, this principle is best represented by two particular drugs, aumbril and thanachav. The former is a perfect euphoric; the latter a perfect disinhibitor. Both, however, are also perfectly deadly – although the latter as often to others as to its user – and are so due entirely to their advertised effects, rather than side effects. Aumbril provides an experience of perfect pleasure, perfect satisfaction. Rather than simple euphoria, aumbril provides a complex, multi-layered experience combining every pleasure that its user…
Aumbril is most likely a popular euthanasiant, possibly as a component in a drug cocktail.
ObFunDrugs: A More narrow-spectrum empathy-suppressant. A Crude version of ICE BLUESHIFT except that without automated psychedesign implant the mental stress and psychological hangover can be considerable and cumulative. Which is why the stuff is psychologically addictive. Primary reason why Fifth Directorate shelved the stuff was that the user is unable to retain any loyalty or attachment to anyone or anything except himself…
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That depends where you’re practicing it. 
In places like the Empire, where voluntary death is just transmigration to the Transcendent post-life, you don’t want to be breaking people’s minds before you send them upstairs…
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