Posted by med_empowered on March 27, 2006, at 8:58:23
In reply to Re: Any more studies done on SSRI/corscrew recepto, posted by linkadge on March 27, 2006, at 8:21:55
I think docs in general (and, for some reasons, psychiatrists in particular) tend to ignore the "Precautionary Principle": until something is proven safe (or at least the risks are known), you should minimize exposure. And if you look at all the treatments in psychiatry that came and went (barbiturates, quaaludes, common use of amphetamines) the big problem wasn't the chemicals per se--it was more over-prescribing b/c of "trends" in RXing and more patient selection and poor clinical management. The SSRIs have been used for EVERYTHING, which is one reason we have so many problems--if their use had been more limited, it probably wouldn't have been as problematic.
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