Posted by West on August 10, 2008, at 9:15:49
In reply to Re: Freud, Cocaine, and Adderall, posted by Nadezda on August 9, 2008, at 23:34:09
I'm sorry but where is the voice of moderation in any of this? Do you realise how crazy you all sound? One of you defends the honour of adderall as safe and non-addicitive and useful for ADD when a raft of evidence has existed for 30+ years demonstrating its neurotoxicity and cripplingly addictive acute effects. This is not the 1950s anymore. How about Bupropion? Atomoxetine? Ritalin? If they don't work i suggest just giving up and working in a garden or something because it's bound to be better than developing down a private speed addicition, albeit one approved by the government and your doctor. I feel like people are hiding behind labels neatly given to them by the approving drug bodies rather than taking responsibility and taking responsibility for what they are doing, namely taking drugs for pleasure and on dubious medical grounds. By advocating the use of amphetamine drugs you do the public a great disservice and open their lives to the kind of rammifications all too present here.
Re. Coca please do try and get real, just because biopsychiatry's Healy + advocates extol its virtues as an antidepressant doesn't mean its any better than existing formulas actually designed to treat the symptoms of depression, and i hardly think condemning modern psychiatric medicine to an early grave ('going backwards') on the grounds that patients suffer withdrawal effects on coming off drugs says any more about the truth than it does about the intelligence of the person staking that claim.
I actually think we are extremely lucky to have the tools available to treat depression in this day and age that we have, and sometimes i don't think it would hurt to recognise how much worse things could be instead of whining on about side effects.
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