Posted by bassman on August 29, 2006, at 11:10:07
In reply to Re: Psychopharmacology of addicting drugs » bassman, posted by Squiggles on August 29, 2006, at 10:30:05
I'm just saying Ashton's is not a balanced message. I share your distrust of the pharmaceutical companies (I worked in the field for 25 years). I find it somewhat odd that all the benzos used to be the drugs of choice-before they came off patent. Now you can get any benzo you want dirt cheap. Now they are all horrible drugs (my translation: they aren't big money-makers anymore). But if you want Effexor Cymbalta, the new AP's, etc. they are very expensive. And the TCA's were criticized when the SSRI's came along because the TCA’s were "dirty", that is, they hit more than just the serotonin sites-so of course, you want the newer, cleaner SSRI's. Until they went off patent. Now you're told you want Effexor, Cymbalta which are "dirty" like the TCA's were accused of being. I could rant on about Vioxx, etc.-Big Business surely isn’t watching out for our physical and mental health the way it is looking out for its own financial health-and so I think the day of making your own judgment about medications is upon us. Maybe it always was; I really don’t know.
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