Posted by jono_in_adelaide on June 14, 2011, at 18:17:48
In reply to Re: Medicating Unhappiness, posted by zero on June 14, 2011, at 17:53:10
No value judgement - just a comment on the string of so called wonder drugs that were going to make unhappiness a thing of the past, all of which have failed to some extent.
Some of them were not real advances (for example, Miltown or Doriden werent much of an improvement on the barbiturates, some were huge leaps forward, for example, chlorpromazine, chlordiazepoxide and imipramine revolutionised the teatment of mental illness, yet there still seem to be just as many depressed uphappy people out there.
I knw big pharma take a lot of abuse from a lot of people, but I think we owe them a lot. The Soviet pharma industry, which lacked a profit motive, didnt intorduce one life changing drug in the 70 years it existed for, during the time when western big pharma changed life as we know it.
I just wonder why with all the advances, there are still so many unhappy, depressed, anxoius people - are doctors not using the drugs right, or are peoples expectations changing, does "the bar" continue to gte higher.
The thread was realy an esoteric question, just me thinking out load
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