Posted by bulldog2 on February 18, 2007, at 15:56:54
In reply to Re: Why Most New Antidepressants Are Ineffective » Squiggles, posted by Quintal on February 18, 2007, at 13:59:10
Most physicians seem to have a poor knowledge of pharmaceuticals in my opinion. What I often find is that docs prescribe the latest drug that the pharmacuetical rep has given samples to the doc. Often the doctor's knowledge of a drug is the info he has gotten from the rep. There seems to be an assumption that newer is better which is just not the case.
When prozac came out it was the new god of ads. Than came zoloft, paxil, effextor and so on. So the new best ad just kept changing. I remember when zoloft came out my doc back than said to stop my ativan as zoloft would take care of my anxiety to. Well my blood pressure shot up and I almost had a stroke. To this day many docs still think that an ssri will act as a tranquilizer when in fact many will need more benzos or will need to start one on an ssri. Guess where their getting their info ? (pharmaceutical reps).
I've never tried parnate or nardil due to the dietary restrictions and fear of hypertensive reactions. But from what I've have read and talking to people who have suffered from depression the maois seem to work in many cases where all else has failed.
Let's be honest about this the pharmaceutical industry makes it's money from marketing new drugs that are under patent. I guess we really haven't made a lot of strides in pyschotropic meds when the older ads from the 50's and 60's are probably more effective than the new wonder drugs of today.
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