Tbh, I don’t think there’s really any examples of the idea, not that would hold up as a science answer.
Not to say that there aren’t plenty of medicines that ended up pretty far away from what the original research was towards, and there’s a perfect example with minoxidil imo. But I can’t call it an opposite in any but the most abstract way.
Mind you, if some of the hints about it being a viable component of treatment for ovarian cancer end up panning out, id have to shrug and smile if someone called that opposite lol.
But, yeah, finding unintended uses for drugs is super common, it’s just that the underlying reason it ends up working isn’t really an opposite, just unexpected. People have already given great answers for that side of things, and I can’t improve on them tbh.
I dunno that those are opposites.
Tbh, I don’t think there’s really any examples of the idea, not that would hold up as a science answer.
Not to say that there aren’t plenty of medicines that ended up pretty far away from what the original research was towards, and there’s a perfect example with minoxidil imo. But I can’t call it an opposite in any but the most abstract way.
Mind you, if some of the hints about it being a viable component of treatment for ovarian cancer end up panning out, id have to shrug and smile if someone called that opposite lol.
But, yeah, finding unintended uses for drugs is super common, it’s just that the underlying reason it ends up working isn’t really an opposite, just unexpected. People have already given great answers for that side of things, and I can’t improve on them tbh.