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Re: 'Side effect' is a stupid term.

Posted by Onestone on January 20, 2009, at 8:33:45

In reply to 'Side effect' is a stupid term., posted by Onestone on January 20, 2009, at 8:21:33

[Sorry about the last one, I misunderstood the posting software, somehow.]

I've just worked out what's been bugging me about drug packet leaflets:

Consider the following three side effects:
(i) Causes increased sweating.
(ii) Causes suicide.
(iii) (e.g. with edronax) Causes nausea.

The first is something that is just part of using a drug, happens to everybody, and YOU JUST HAVE TO LUMP IT. The second happens to very few users of a drug, is intolerable, and IS GROUNDS FOR DISCONTINUATION OF THE DRUG. The third is TEMPORARY, and goes away after a week.

I will admit that there is no firm dividing line between (i) and (ii), but anything that kills you or renders you non-functional definitely belongs to (ii).

Yet these very different categories of things are all conflated as "side effects", even on some pages in psycho-babble. This isn't helpful.

--
Onestone.


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