Posted by med_empowered on January 31, 2007, at 12:50:02
In reply to Re: Are we in a psychiatric drug development reses, posted by NYCguy on January 31, 2007, at 12:17:49
yup. Its kind of like how, for 20 years or so, nobody came out with anything new for schizophrenia. There was Thorazine, a bunch of phenothiazines behind it, Haldol, and then the late-comers--moban and loxitane--and then nothing, not until interest in clozapine gave up risperdal and zyprexa, followed by the others. Now that they're making drugs for most psychiatric problems, I think we'll see more stop-and-go periods, where new drugs are developed and docs badmouth the old drugs, then start "re-assessing" the old drugs and prescribing both, and then development slows down for a while.
Plus, lets be honest: a lot of the skepticism people have about psychiatry is well-deserved. A lot of these drugs are grossly overpriced, overmarketed, overprescribed, and seem to lack the effectiveness expected from such expen$ive therapies. On the plus side, it seems like there's a renewed interest in using orthomolecular approaches and other less toxic approaches, so that should be interesting...I think that sort of an approach could be quite worthwhile.
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