Posted by Alan on March 13, 2002, at 22:20:11
In reply to Re: DR's UNDER THE INFLUENCE-what can we do???, posted by gilbert on March 13, 2002, at 18:38:38
> This is what is really happening folks. You can even follow the prescribing trends on this board look a t the posts and the topics from past posts.
> The questions on this board follow the drug pushing on the streets. When I first came on it was ssri's, then it was serzone, then it was wellbutrin and effexor, now were into anti-pyschotics, anti seizure meds and mood stabilizers, the drugs du jour. I'll have a moch cuppacinno with a zyprexa and top it off witth a little neurontin please. WE are all guinea pigs. Welcome to George Orwells pharmaceutical farm. Let's put someone on zyprexa instead of valium or xanax what a friggin joke.
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> Gil
***********************************************Bingo Gil. Well said. Just look at the board here - even if it IS a slight indication.
While there is relevance in trying new therapies to a certain extent (especially if the patient AND the doctor are informed of ALL of the real risks), what is the driving force? $$$ And not just an honest buck as the article points out. Ethics are left at the doorstep. Conflict of interest issues are in the fore. Docs just don't have time - or the ability in many a non-specialist case - to think it out carefully - let alone the patients - and they want to leave the critical thinking "skills" to the Pharmecutical Co.'s. Hey, their asses are covered if Paxil is shown to cause serious problems down the road - their cover for liability is with the drug companies that have made these claims. Any wonder there's a huge lawsuit against the makers of Paxil about them covering up or at least manipulating test results to win FDA approval for GAD?
Otherwise there wouldn't be all of the trashing of BZD's exclusively in today's market.
Paxil: "not habit forming"
Zyprexa: "not addicting"
Zoloft: "no addicting side effects"BALONEY. Sure, by strict definition these meds aren't in the "controlled substance" catagory but who the hell cares when one AD after another "poops out" or causes more anxiety than before treatment, ot the patient is at higher risk than benefit for TD? Or withdraws from an ssri and experiences "electrical brain zaps" that docs are just now admitting aren't the unusual case of the patient resonding badly to a drug (one with no "withdrawl" phenomenon).
BZD's (a pure anxiolytic) for anxiety disorders? Are you kidding? Too obvious.
Unbelieveable. The tail's wagging the dog(s).
Alan.
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