Posted by susan C on August 2, 2001, at 12:37:04
In reply to Prozac patent runs out at midnight, posted by Wendy B. on August 2, 2001, at 11:47:07
Here is to the future med coctail. I'll take mine shaken not stirred "o)
> Hi everyone,
>
> Eli Lilly's patent for Prozac runs out at midnight tonight! This from a CNN report just now on the news. Any thoughts or rants or comments?
>
> Serafem and the 90 mg tab patents run out in 2007,
> however, so Lilly will be ok, don't worry.
>
> While on the one hand, I am one of those who has been helped by SSRIs and know that many others have been helped by all the rest of the pharmaceutical arsenal, I still know we really understand only a fraction of the total knowledge to be learned about how the brain works. That federal research money going into depression (vs. other illnesses) is not enough, that the toll depression takes on human life and productivity is enormous... You guys know the stats better than I do.
>
> I won't toast Lilly with a glass of pseudo-champagne (can't drink on the drugs) tonight at midnight. But I WILL toast Lilly or another mega-rich pharm company, when they can do an individual scan of each of our brains and tell us which receptors need tweaking, give us the scrip (one pill which works all day, or a vaccine, which works for weeks, or a patch which might work for months), which works for every dopamine or NE or other receptor we individually need it to, and send us on our way.
>
> I'm tired of taking these pills, guys!
>
> My rant for the day, I never do this, so humor me, ok?
>
> Yours,
> Wendy
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