Posted by Chairman_MAO on May 8, 2005, at 12:55:34
In reply to Re: HAS ANYONE TRIED TIANEPTINE??, posted by sukarno on May 7, 2005, at 15:21:44
>Survector was just too good of an antidepressant
>with far less side effects than others on the >market. Something too good like that doesn't stand >a chance against Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, >AstraZeneca, etc.>Anything close to a "cure" for depression will be >given the axe.
Yup. I fully believe that had they not been discovered so early, MAOIs would've never been allowed on the market. When they work, they simply make the user feel real, real good and alive a lot of the time. That effect is worlds away from what SSRIs do; there is simply no comparison. Moreover, had they not the dietary restrictions and drug interactions, I believe they would've been pulled off the market for some trumped up reason or another. This happened to Merital (nomifensine) in the mid 80s. People felt really good when they took it: OOPS!
What it comes down to is that euthymic/hyperthymic people don't pay as much in taxes as unhappy people, because happy people find a lot more joy in activities that are intrinsically beneficial, such as being with and taking care of family and friends, spending time with lovers, volunteering for grassroots political organizations, artwork, spiritual expression, saving animals, exploring consciousness, EDUCATION (which brings poor nations the ability to feed themselves and as such is rationed out more strictly than food), etc. Those activities do not generate taxes for the military-industrial[-pharmaceutical] complex. This is why fenfluramine, a serotonin releasing drug more neruotoxic than MDMA (and structurally related to it), was yanked from the market only after a lawsuit (unrelated to neurotoxicity), yet MDMA is kept at schedule I purportedly and largely because of neurotoxicity. Fenfluramine didn't get you high, MDMA did. End of story.
"There is no such thing as a high taxpayer."
--Tibor Palfai, PhD.
That is the big secret rationale behind the drug war. When I was tipped onto that at age 21, it engendered some sort of extraordinarily powerful resentful emotion toward the establishment that can never be extinguished. So, sorry if I ramble way too much.
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