Haha, well now we're entering "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" territory! Regarding "forgetting" a drug addiction though (if an effective technology is found) it definitely would help, but depending on the addictive substance forgotten, the patient may be in such a depressed / agitated state after cessation (receptor down regulation / monoamine depletion / GcP mediated changes / dynorphin upregulation / etc etc [from "forced forgotten" drug addiction ]) and unaware of the cause, that they may do something drastic like harm themselves. A bit far fetched perhaps, but some thing to maybe keep in mind, even when hypothetically musing about it.
Wow, can you imagine the social implications of that though? "Don't forget, XYZ doesn't know what drugs are anymore, so make sure not to bring them up around him."
It would be like the ultimate version of "The Game". (You just lost the game!) XD Except instead of being reminded of a silly fad, every time you lose THIS game you end up relapsing. What a concept.
Re: MAO-Inhibition,
I am no Shulgin but I know enough to differentiate tryptamine SAR from subbed PEA
No, it reminds me not of 2C-Tx but of 5-MeO-AMT! (which of course I guess does kind of borrow from PEA qsar in it's own right...now I'm just complicating things though) Of course, there, we have the a-carbon methylated, which really does throw a wrench in the gears of metabolism.
Of course this is all pure pontification, (I.E. as you mentioned, regardless of if it inhibits MAO-A or is a DNA cross-linker, or damages chromosomes in ovum...have fun injecting anything intracranially, through healthy tissue)
But before I derail this thread any further I will end my post. BUT I will mention, that to your credit about potential, novel agents to end addiction, I know there is a drastic Chinese surgery being offered which, quite literally, ablates areas of the Nucleus Accumbens...results supposedly vary from "instant happy sobriety" in long term heroin addicts, but also, in many, cognitive impairment and for a few...suicide within months of surgery.
Hatte Ich here the good article found:
http://healthland.time.com/2012/12/13/controversial-surgery-for-addiction-burns-away-brains-pleasure-center/