New drug can block memories

Do you have a really bad memory, or past heartache, that you would prefer to forget?

Researchers at Harvard and McGill University (in Montreal) are working on an amnesia drug that blocks or deletes bad memories. The technique seems to allow psychiatrists to disrupt the biochemical pathways that allow a memory to be recalled.

New Drug Deletes Bad Memories

Now, while this obviously has beneficial uses, I'm sure it doesn't take too much imagination to come up with some other applications for this.

It's not a new drug. It's just a new use for it.

Gools already has a thread on this. Only he takes a mind control slant. Whereas I am thinking Eternal Sunshine