Posted by christophrejmc on January 5, 2010, at 8:37:49
In reply to Re: medication for acne from Parnate, posted by Willful on January 5, 2010, at 6:38:10
I respectfully disagree with your last point; it's similar to the anti-drug campaigns in America: once people realize that certain dangers are overstated, they begin to ignore precautions which actually have bases in fact. E.g., someone realizing that mozzarella on a pizza isn't going to cause a hypertensive crisis may later eat a large amount of Stilton without thinking twice because they've been told that cheese=death without any explanation why.
I believe this was Elizabeth's aim when creating the updated MAOI list that's linked on the main page here: to provide solid data so that when people taking MAOIs experiment with proscribed substances (which is inevitable) they don't make a life-threatening error.
I certainly didn't claim that it's all hype, I just think explanations backed up by actual research are more constructive, educational and, indeed, life-saving than what seem to be "abstinence-only" warnings.
> Claims that it's all just hype --which leads people possibly to act without thinking it through---are themselves frightening.
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> Willful
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