Posted by Uppendown on May 7, 2002, at 20:00:19
In reply to Re: Lots of editing on that piece, posted by Phil on May 7, 2002, at 18:56:58
Hey Phil,
I agree that most of the people taking prescription drugs know next to nothing about them... they do what their docs tell them to do with few, if any questions... And, the reporter MAY be dumb... but does the "messenger" negate the message ? Are you saying that because you think the repoter is "dumb", that the studies done, analyzing 96 clinical studies, are worthless ?
I've seen these types of posts before... and it seems they turn into some kind of defensiveness about the value of meds.. The "antimeds" types like Breggin who seem to say ALL meds are worthless.. to the "promeds" types that can't hear anything that questions meds and their effects.. Obviously, as with so many things the "truth" lays somewhere in the middle... As it was quoted in that article: "Both drugs and placebos -- chemicals and beliefs -- may impose different chemical pressures on the brain that reset the "temperature." The real problem, of course, is that no one knows how to fix the hole in the window, or even where exactly it is. "This is a thousand-piece puzzle with no picture on the box," sighed Mayberg.
Blackmon, the Washington psychiatrist, said it behooved mental health clinicians to better integrate the power of biological treatments with the effects of belief and therapy.
"We would say it's absurd if an internist says, 'I believe in penicillin, so everyone should get penicillin whether they have cancer or a broken bone," he said."
It isn't all one way, or the other....
Best Wishes,Uppendown
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