Posted by Lou Pilder on February 26, 2014, at 11:11:08
In reply to Re: Anybody died because of psychobabble?, posted by Dr. Bob on February 26, 2014, at 1:57:03
> > I have privately wondered if anybody has ever died or been hospitalized as a result of acting upon psychopharmacology "advice" they got off of this forum? Or gotten into legal trouble offline as a result of "ideas" they originally got from perceived "experts" on psychobabble?
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> > Even if such event(s) have occurred, I strongly doubt it would be admitted here.
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> No adverse events like that have been reported, and the adverse event reporting system:
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> http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/faq.html#advent
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> has been in place since 2002. You can question what I'm reporting, but reports of adverse events could also be questioned.
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> BobMr. Hsiung,
You wrote,[...no adverse events like that have been reported (to the adverse event reporting system of yours here}.
But is reporting to {your} system the *standard* of if an adverse event has happened as a result of people taking the advise given here?
You say that posts here are supportive if they are not sanctioned by you or your deputies. There could be a subset of readers that think that unsanctioned posts mean that you are validating what the post could purport. In the case of Eric's observation, he brings up IMHHHHO a very valid point in relation to that narcotic addictive drugs are being advocated and there is not an administrative intervention. This could lead a subset of readers to think that you and your deputies are ratifying what the poster is advocating. That could lead someone to find a prescriber to give the reader the narcotic addictive drug for depression, or as Eric states, could lead a reader just to ask a prescriber for the narcotic addictive drug which could give the member a record of drug-seeking behavior when the member was not seeking narcotic drugs but thought that psychiatry itself validates the use of the drug for depression because the discussion about the drug was allowed to be seen as supportive by you.
But it is much more than that. For Eric's point goes way beyond just the drug in question. For you allow members to advocate taking combinations of drugs that could kill them. The deaths of those people would be hard to be in your adverse report system because how could anyone know that the dead person took the advice that was un repudiated here?
Lou Pilder
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