Posted by Meri-Tuuli on March 23, 2006, at 8:25:21
In reply to Re: Depression drugs work in just half of patients, posted by greywolf on March 23, 2006, at 7:34:19
> Unfortunately, I see this going in a different direction. Insurers and HMOs will use this study as justification to restrict access to drugs that are effective for that other half of the treatment population. The FDA will probably take an even tougher stand on new meds, meaning even fewer of the drugs that the rest of the world enjoys will ever make it into the American market.
Do you think? I thought (and I could be wrong) that most of the drugs the FDA declines is more to do with big pharma company politics etc. I dunno.
But I would like to point out that although we (I am in the UK) might have a greater plethora of drugs to theortically chose from, it doesn't mean that pdocs/docs actually prescribe them.
In general, its difficult to find a pdoc that will prescribe a MAOI or a stimlant let alone some of the drug regimens that I have seen american posters here take like a benzo + SSRI + stimulant + sleeping med for instance.
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