Posted by ed_uk on August 12, 2005, at 16:47:33 [reposted on August 13, 2005, at 19:22:48 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Amphetamine derivatives for Parkinson's?, posted by med_empowered on August 12, 2005, at 16:30:58
Hi Med,
You make some great points as usual :-)
>...did you notice how the researchers suggested "new drugs" may come to the market some day (presumably, this will take at least 10 years). Well..the research was based on the current crop of meds...meds which are cheap and off-patent. Why should we wait 10, 15 years for Eli Lilly to develop some drug based on Ecstasy that will cost massive $$$ and cause side-effects of its own?
I stole the article from the UK pharmaceutical journal :-O
>........causing a lot of pain management docs to just give up.............
Don't get me started! The popular "don't prescribe opioids unless the patient is about to die" attitude makes me sick to the stomach.
>Given how quickly "acceptable" drugs--atypical antipsychotics, antidepressants-- are used for "off-label" uses with a minimum of evidence, doesn't it make sense to go ahead and do some hardcore inquiry into the use of the drugs we have now for conditions such as Parkinson's?
Apparantly, docs prefer to prescribe highly toxic drugs (with no 'recreational' value) rather than prescribing much less toxic drugs which can have 'recreational' value. Thumbs down to the 'war on drugs'.
Ed x
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