Posted by Squiggles on May 16, 2006, at 10:58:16
In reply to Re: Statistical question on SSRIs - ADDENDUM » Squiggles, posted by Larry Hoover on May 16, 2006, at 10:04:04
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> IMHO, the problem has never been the drugs. It has always been the people who were let down by other people. We haven't taken the illness seriously enough. Don't forget, fifty years ago, nobody talked about mental illness at all. We built great buildings, and populated them with people who otherwise virtually ceased to exist. We haven't come too far from that period of great stigma. Don't kid yourself.
>That's an interesting point. It suggests that
there are some causal factors outside the
statistical studies of medication efficacy.
> If there was a failing, it was that we believed the marketing agents. The salesmen. Scientists knew all along that there was nothing so special about SSRIs. But once Prozac got onto the cover of Time magazine, this false image of Happy Pills was embedded in the culture. Accountants for the drug companies thought that was a good idea, too. Money poured in. The guys on Wall St. weren't about to kill the golden goose.It was also the golden drug reviewed as the representative of all SSRIs, and yet had a higher suicidal profile than the others; correct me if i am wrong on this.
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> We end up facing the fact that we got suckered into buying a lemon of a used car, when we thought we were getting a Mercedes at a really great price. Ya know?I hear ya.
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> I don't think blame is a good idea. If a deal looks too good to be true........Fair enough.
Squiggles
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