Posted by LostBoyinNC45 on February 27, 2014, at 19:05:56 [reposted on February 28, 2014, at 2:21:56 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Buprenorphine - Freedom of speech - Why not?, posted by SLS on February 26, 2014, at 21:06:35
Do you have anything else to do with your time than post stupid sh*t on the Internet?????
Eric AKA "LostBoyinNC"> > > A bunch of people refuse to acknowledge mental illness because of the lack of science behind it.
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> > I am not terribly concerned with the ignorance extant in this particular bunch of people unless they are in a position to exert deleterious effects on the pursuit of improvement in the lives of the mentally ill.
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> > I disagree with your supposition that there is a lack of science in the study of mental illness. I have been researching the medical literature since 1983. I have watched it evolve over time. In my estimation, modern scientific research into mental illnesses was in place by the late 1960s, and has grown exponentially. You can gain an appreciation for this by using Medline as a timeline.
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> > The following link will search the Medline database for occurrences of the terms "major depressive disorder" or "major depression".
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> > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=search&DB=pubmed&form=4&term="major depressive disorder" OR "major depression"&dispmax=100
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> > It might be interesting to jump ahead to the last page to appreciate how great were the efforts to study mental illness scientifically in the 1950s.
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> > Hopefully, the link will work properly.
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> Nope.
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> Let's try this:
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> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?form=4&term="major depressive disorder" OR "major depression"&dispmax=20&cmd=search
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> - Scott
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