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Re: What a biased title » Dinah

Posted by SLS on September 29, 2011, at 11:44:58

In reply to What a biased title, posted by Dinah on September 29, 2011, at 11:01:58

> >> In combined analysis of trials evaluating GAD, a "favorable response" was defined as showing at least 50% improvement on the Hamilton Anxiety "Rating Scale. Overall results showed that quetiapine was associated with a 26% greater likelihood of a favorable response at 8 weeks than placebo.
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> Augmentation with risperidone after not responding to other treatments was associated with a 3.9-fold greater likelihood than placebo of a favorable response (showing at least a 25% improvement on the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale) for patients with OCD." <<
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> They aren't going to lead with this, for sure. Admitting that Risperidone helps those who have not been helped by other treatments? Who's funding/running this story?
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> Also, there is no attempt at all to segregate the sort of patients who are most likely to respond well to AP treatment.
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> Drug companies aren't the only ones with an agenda.

Yup.

You should visit us more often, Dinah. :-)

One thing negative about risperidone and the other AAPs is that they seem to increase the risk of fatality in elderly Alzheimers patients. I think risperidone has been cited the most often.

I have an agenda.

I would like to see more people with mental illnesses be treated successfully. Every drug is a tool. The more tools that become available, the greater will be the probability that more people will get well. Until better medications are brought to market, we will need every one of those that are currently available. Safety and adverse effects must always be evaluated for each drug to be used and for each patient to be treated.

I would not advocate removing drugs that are pieces of crap, as long as they are safe. Reboxetine and moclobemide are crap, yet there are a few people who do well on them. If the drug company wants to continue selling the stuff, why stop them?


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