Posted by Geezer on February 19, 2002, at 21:23:32
In reply to Mentioned in Aaron Beck's book » 3 Beer Effect, posted by Mr. Scott on February 19, 2002, at 19:15:09
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> The book Cognitive Therapy or Depression a cognitive perspective (I forget which but they are both by Beck) shows studies done in the 50's comparing the efficacy of Bariturate+Amphetamine drugs versus Imipramine. They seemed to do about equally well amongst patient samples or if one did better it was the Barb/Amph combo pill. AKA "goofballs"
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Hi Scott,Thanks for the reference on Aaron Beck's books.......another "blast from the past". Aaren Beck was to cognative therapy what Freud was to psychiatry and just about as useful in the modern day treatment of what we are discussing on this board. Talk about a guy with an agenda - Beck was determined to displace drug treatment with cognative therapy. Don't know where he got his test data on Imipramine/Dexamyl but I sure wouldn't take it at face value. He is right about one thing - "goofballs" (that's what my parents called it) users like myself referred to Dex/Dexamyl as "script speed" and Methamphetimine was called "crank". Enough silly history - time for bed.
Geezer
> Scott
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