Doctors continue antidepressant prescriptions despite warning

Another thing fucked up about the situation is that you have all kinds of people running around on Adderall, Ritalin, Prozac, Paxil, etc. and then they are going on getting hammered, taking meth, ecstasy, or whatever else without ever realizing the potential risk they are putting themselves in. I didn't realize those risks - shit I was only a highschooler when I started taking them - and could have killed myself with some of the shit I was doing while on Adderall, Paxil, Klonopin, and Zyprexa. My body was probably taxed to limits.
 
There is no question that anti-depressants do help some people, and are required and helpful in severe cases of depression.

The point being made here is that those drugs are OVER-PRESCRIBED to people who really do not need them at all.

They just ask a doctor for a happy-pill script and everything will be ladi-da right ? Wrong, it takes a certain combination of brain chemistry/psychiatric evaluation to figure out if a person would actually benefit from taking these drugs.

It's like the ADD drugs, they make kids who REALLY need them (and those are very very few) act more normal while the rest of the kids who get scripts for adderal (just because they have low grades and get diagnosed with ADD), get high on them on sell them to their friends.

The issue is pharmaceutical industry PUSHING drugs unto innocent public thru doctors who don't know any better. There are no "independent" tests for drugs, just results from "sample patient group" approved by FDA, I'm sure those test can be skewed in such way as to get the drug's approval much faster than it would normally take.

And, as the Wood's comments on MDMA, there was a very good reason that study was botched and published in a respectable medical journal, pharm companies do not see MDMA as a cash-cow as compared to SSRI's because you only need to take it once in a while in ver small amounts. That will not make you a lot of $$$ as opposed to people munching $200/month paxil scripts.

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Um, nice theory about MDMA not being a cash cow, and thus the pharmaceutical companies don't want to touch it, but I think there is something deeper...
And obviously, regulation is good for keeping people safe, but even if there are risks to a drug, which the companies fully mention, shouldn't we be allowed to experiment with it?
Should we not be able to buy a car because it kills people?
 
Psychonaut777 said:


Oh and SSRI withdrawl is a MOTHERFUCKER. They don't tell you that when you go on them. (And sexual disfunction sucks bigtime when you are a teenager.. those bastards!)
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I've already told my story enough times on BL, so I wont get into it again..but yeah...zoloft withdrawl..only time in my life I truly wondered if I might die.
 
Maybe we should compile an SSRI or Zoloft withdrawal FAQ?
*Formulates thoughts...*
 
My best friend tried to kill herself, and was perscribed effexor (she should have been sooner but that is what it took). Three weeks later she was a million times better. I had a similiar experience with ADs, though I was never suicidial.

Another thing that should be brought up is that suicidial thoughts or actions are not just the last stage of depression. While it is often the end of a depressed life, the two phenonenom are quite distinct. Many people get incredibly depressed but could never concieve of suicide as an option, while others end their lives without having clinical depression (meaning that they don't have a chemical imbalance that could be corrected by meds, but it is the result of life circumstances). The "longing to die" was once an important concept in psychotherapy, though less important today. It was/is believed (by some) that we all have an urge to die on some level, and this could help explain our fascination with dangerous (real or percieved) situations, like sky diving, roller coasters, and some aspects of drug use (which is a really interesting idea; it could explain why people want to alter thier reality, as a desire we have to transcend this world).
 
Another reason why MDMA is not considered a money maker is because its patent expired a long time ago which is why no company would waste the money on the research it takes to get a drug approved and also because of the simple fact that you need only take MDMA once in a while for its theraputic effects.
 
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