Posted by sam123 on September 1, 2007, at 4:41:52
In reply to Re: More and more warnings with new drugs » sam123, posted by Squiggles on August 31, 2007, at 14:51:51
interesting that they should use APs for both schizophrenia and bp; are they trying to calm the person down in a sedating manner
yep. Calming can also include suppressing hallucinations and not just psychotic
and disordered thinking or mania.or actually change the mind state?
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Hmmm, I am not sure what you mean. If you mean
get at the cause vs. treating symptoms, they
treat symptoms.
For BP, I think lithium and anticonvulsives get at the cause.My point previously in this thread is that, at least with antipsyotics (AP) the side effects today were also seen in the orignal AP's and any AP the followed. They are now being
used for conditions that have no psychotic features.The "new" effects are really just more reporting of side effects, well known at all AP's, in greater numbers due to AP's are now used for several disorders.
AD's have gotten black box warnings for suicide
and that is a well know slight possibility even in the TCA's, our original AD's. The black box on AD's used for children did lower their use but sucide rates went up among children.
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