Posted by utopizen on April 13, 2003, at 23:31:10
In reply to My bad..it wasn't q to Larry- just a note on Xyrem, posted by btnd on April 13, 2003, at 14:16:36
keep in mind addiction journals and people who devout their careers to studying addiction psychopharmacology sustain their living by these drugs. If someone comes along and can claim a drug's "addictive" and "dangerous" they just won themselves hundreds of thousands of dollars in more grants for themselves to research more about the drug.
So there's a pathetic bias here no one sees but those who study addiction psychopharmacology... including toxicology issues. The FDA didn't have a problem with it, so it's odd the addiction researchers do...
note why almost every clinical study says "this raises an interesting point, but will require more research to prove it more." It's so the researcher making that conclusion can use it as a means to secure more grants for themselves.
science is not devoid of biases, let's not be so naive. These aren't priests running these studies for charity.
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