Posted by Barbara Cat on June 19, 2003, at 21:52:48
In reply to tura Reboxetine (not approved in U.S.? FDA blows!), posted by McPac on June 19, 2003, at 20:34:08
Yep, follow the money and you'll see who is beholden to whom. Even (especially) the Vatican. Unlike most corporations, I think the majority of drug company employees, researchers, etc., have good intentions at heart and really want to help. However, by the time it gets to marketing and the CFO, the whole intention has changed to one of greed. If the product helps someone, great, but overall do what it takes to lead the market share. I don't think everyone is evil necessarily, just scared. They have families to support and we live in an integrity-challenged time because we've come to believe that's the only way we can survive.
There is such disinformation and shenanigans in the business of antidepressants, et al, that the whole picture is very distorted. Sometimes the picture only starts becoming clear through anectdotal experience.
What really makes me laugh is how, when a med starts getting near the end of it's patent, copyright protection, they tweak a little isomer here and there and presto, it's a whole new 'improved' med protected for another 10 years and no competing generics are released. Or when the waters start getting too crowded with similar acting drugs, why, then gee, our drug is the best for social anxiety, ours is the best for PMS, ours is indicated in OCD -- even though they're basically the same friggin drug!!
Call me cynical, but in these very strange times, it's foolish to trust what any advertisment says about their product, or any research funded by the developing pharm company has to say about their trials. And don't forget how salespeople from pharm companies woo doctors and how many doctors get their scholarship money from - guess who - and how many symposiums on various mental disorders are sponsored by pharm companies (although you really have to sleuth this out) and the presenters might be a little biased. Or at the very least, influenced, because drug companies, whether directly or hidden, turn out to be the primary educators of our physicians. -- BarbaraC
> I spent 3 hrs last night reading one clinical study after another on Reboxetine from sites all over the world, including US, it was found AT LEAST as good as Prozac in every study and better for many depressive, anxiety, & social phobic conditions and much better for severe depression WITH significantly less side effects in every study.........it wasn't approved because many people would have switched and ditched their ssri's (of course now, after 10 years of being bombarded with ssri marketing hype, some folks wouldn't give up their ssri's for an actual vaccine CURE, lol,......Anafranil was available in TONS of countries for MANY, MANY years before the fda SOMEHOW approved it...TONS of ocd sufferers who had NOTHING before that suffered endlessly for YEARS when they could have been greatly and easily helped......oh yeah, all politicians are completely moral, upstanding people who could NEVER be involved in crooked shenanigans either, lol...financial executives too (Enron, Global Crossing, Imclone, World Com, and scores of others, they were all guys that would NEVER do anything crooked for a buck, lol, show me ANY industry where HUGE bucks can be made and you'll find some shenanigans, thank goodness for drugs and the co's that make and sell them, but there is good and bad shenanigans in that industry too, you don't think a multi-BILLION $$$$ company and guys with HUGE stakes at hand would try to hide and twist a few 'unpleasant' facts....some people believed Bill Clinton too ("I never had sexual relations with that woman").....swampland in Florida for sale, TAKE CARE EVERYBODY!!!!!!!
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