Posted by laima on August 29, 2006, at 20:39:32
In reply to Re: Psychopharmacology of addicting drugs, posted by bassman on August 29, 2006, at 18:51:00
Oh- I might not have been clear- I didn't mean to imply scientists would distort data- though I do think marketers and sales reps often rosey-up, "dumb-down", or oversimplify the facts for the public.Ie, "depression is a simple chemical imbalance". That is only a "theory" per most doctors I've talked to-maybe true- maybe more likely it's actually a tad more complicated.
> Sorry, maybe that wasn't worded right-I meant the scientists aren't going to distort the data; they genuinely WOULD like to help...just about all of them, in my experience. The Big Pharma nonesense just occurs long after the developing chemist is out of the picture-remember, the chemist doesn't know he's synthesizing a psychoactive drug-he finds that out after it has been screened. These days, 100,000 potential drugs might be synthesized a day!
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