Posted by dancingstar on January 26, 2005, at 10:41:41
In reply to Re: A POSITIVE EFFEXOR XR EXPERIENCE~ » dancingstar, posted by SLS on January 26, 2005, at 7:27:46
As it happens, Scott, I am familair with Ms. Gutierrez, who for your information, works with veterans at USC. All she has done in this instance is to summerize literature that has been previously published on Medline in order to reach her conclusions. Unfortunately, she hasn't done her own research when she published this paper; so it is useless garbage as so much of the rest of the material on that site.
Worse yet, she may be responsible for thousands of young men returning from Iraq routinely being given Effexor unnecessarily. I certainly hope that this is not so, but it has been rumoured that our serviceman may routinely receive this drug on return from their tours of duty. That would indeed be a shame.
If you are the same Scott that has taken the drug for nine years and you are taking it with your full knowledge and consent, that is fine for you. But it is not fine for people to be plyed with a drug that they know nothing about that is potentially very harmful.
I am not saying that I do not believe in antidepressants. I am saying that I believe in truth in advertising. I have a real problem with the deception behind what has gone on here.
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