Posted by fires on June 8, 2005, at 21:22:42
In reply to Re: This shocked me !!, posted by linkadge on June 8, 2005, at 21:11:41
> Nothing that couldn't have been done with a prozac nortryptaline combination.
You are forgetting something about the TCAs: "Patients with cardiovascular disease should be given nortriptyline only under close supervision because of the tendency of the drug to produce sinus tachycardia and to prolong the conduction time. Myocardial infarction, arrhythmia, and strokes have occurred."
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> Ok, so lets suppose the drug companies do know that their drugs are inadequate, they still seem unwilling to take a step outside the box and try something creative. They sure don't give the public the accurate message of their effectivness.
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> You don't see adverisements like
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> "prozac, non-statistically better than placebo in one out of 9 trials!"
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> "prozac, a one in 9 chance, you'll feel slightly better than if you took a sugar pill"The stats you quote are new to me. Source?
> I mean there are drugs out there, effective antideperessants, that because of small abuse potential, will never be released.For example?
>> They are still fixed on the idea that an antideperessant must not produce happiness in normal controlls.
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> As far as antipsychotics go, lilly probably does't give two hoots about schitsophrenia, they're just glad that their product has such a market for SSRi induced insomnia.
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