Posted by JohnX2 on January 4, 2002, at 17:07:22
In reply to Re: Wellbutrin SR: A big SCAM?, posted by JGalt on January 4, 2002, at 0:55:24
You bring up a really good point that I discussed
with my pdoc at my last trip. One day, probably
in the next 1-2 decades, the technology will have
advanced to the point where a patient can go through
some initial neurological/genetic screening and get
the appropriate treatment from day 1. No med
swizzle game. At that point the psychiatrists will
more or less go the way of the dinosaurs.I drew a parallel somewhat to my own industry, the
home pc, where people are running out of reasons
to have faster computers running their software,
they just need faster internet connections at
this point.-john
> > Well, whether you prefer Wellbutrin SR or IR, the REAL scam or real CRIME is the fact that there isn't enough research going on into other noradrenergic/dopaminergic antidepressants. Wellbutrin is the only medicine of its kind (other than amphetamines, which don't do much for depression) currently available in this country. The manufacturers and purveyors of the WIMPOGENIC ssri's have effectively prevented research and/or FDA approval of much better, more creative and useful antidepressants for a great majority of patients. Instead, we are turning into a country of spaced-out, apathetic, ssri-ingesting wimps. > >
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> I agree with you mostly Bekka, though I certainly do not believe that all people become spaced out or apathetic on ssri's...I doubt you do either. It is most certainly is sad to see most of the money going down the same tired old roads for mostly political reasons. As I understand it, amineptine was a very nice antidepressant for many, until the FDA and other countries forced it off the market...probably because it was able to make normal people more happy (and sometimes hypersexual), and that doesn't fit the picture frame of an antidepressant. Of course it may also be because if someone made a class of highly successful (say 90%+) antidepressants, there wouldn't be so much money shelled out on polypharmacy and switching meds (from which pdocs profit).
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> JGalt
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