Nasal spray could energize sleepy servicemembers

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DOD works on instant pick-me-up nasal spray for sleep-deprived troops


Nasal spray could energize sleepy servicemembers
By Lisa Burgess, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Wednesday, January 16, 2008

ARLINGTON, Va. — It sounds like the Holy Grail for sleep-deprived servicemembers from Fort Bragg to Fallujah: a nasal spray that banishes sleepiness without any side effects.

Tuck the little white bottle into your cargo pants and go.

Then, the next time you’re 18 hours into Double Watch Duty from Hell, with your eyes at half-mast, your chew long gone and no coffee in sight, take a few brisk snorts and suddenly it’s like you just got eight hours of decent rack.

No caffeine jitters. No amphetamine hangover. Just a clear mind and a steady finger on the trigger.

There’s only one place in the U.S. military something this good could come from: the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.


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