tl;dr this is about phobias and anxiety not &quot;fear&quot; we seem to have Discovered a drug that when a subject relieves the trigger emotion (sees a spider) the drug inhibits the reconciliation of the memory into long term storage.  Something previously not thought possible<p>It clearly has some value for phobias, but it&#x27;s big value might be in PTSD treatment <i>but</i> from family experience this is a big difficult area and silver bullets are rare.<p>US and UK need to do much more for long term expensive treatment of the veterans we have made - and if governments complain about the cost, we should very loudly point out they can save money in the future by simply stopping creating new veterans of wars.