Posted by Lasagne on August 2, 2003, at 17:47:42
In reply to Re: Straterra approval., posted by Shel Swartz on August 2, 2003, at 15:54:08
> This product, like most others, was created by a chemical company hoping to make enough profits than the cost of lawsuits. Takng chemicals for ADHD (another disease made up by money-hungry pyschiatrists) is DANGEROUS. What you are feeling is a placebo effect. PERIOD!
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> If the supposed doctors are sio learned, how come they get just as sick as everyone else, and die off just as we do?
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> The motivation: MONEY.
Yes, I agree that companies are out to make money. That's the way our country is ran. Some people develop new technoligies out of greed and some don't, yet you can't discount the overall benefit many of these various drugs/chemicals have given to many people. I am one of those people who would not be able to function well without these prescription drugs. Before I take any prescription medicine I learn about it and make an educated decision as to whether it is the right decision for me. I don't just take medicine on a whim from a pharmaceutical advertisement or through pressure from my doctor or psychiatrist.I don't agree that ADHD is a made up disease/condition. People with this shortsided opinion just aren't educated well enough on this topic. I can see how somebody can have issue with the label that has been given to this disorder because it over simplifies the struggles that people with ADHD experience, but to discount true symptoms that people experience is plain uncompasionate. Hopefully you will never suffer from any kind of mental illness/disorder. And to say that the benefits received from these drugs is purely the placebo effect is another sign of your ignorance. They run various trials on drugs and take statistics on their results to determine if the drug is statistically more beneficial than the placebo. These results are then scrutinized by the FDA before they can be released for prescription use by the public.
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