Posted by baseball55 on April 2, 2019, at 19:27:35
In reply to Re: NYer essay on psych drug detox, posted by SLS on April 2, 2019, at 9:29:40
iObviously, there are too many people for whom drug treatment produces disappointing - and sometimes negative results. The same can be said about other types of illnesses.
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This is actually not true. Most cancer drugs work for only small % of people,
Also most drugs for neurological disorder (seizures, MS, Parkinso\.n's, etc) - brain disorders, including mental health, are notoriously difficult to treat.
Very little is understood about cancer and neurological etiology. Drugs are hit-or-miss.
But even things where the physiology is better understood, treatments are hit-or-miss. Knee pain, back pain treatments work as well as sham surgery or placebo drugs. Migraines? No idea what causes them and standard treatments work no better than placebos.And then there are those where the physiology is completely understood but no treatment has been found that works consistently- lupus, sickle-cell anemia, malaria, IBS - the list goes on and on.
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