Posted by zonked on October 1, 2011, at 10:31:51
In reply to Re: What a biased title, posted by morgan miller on September 30, 2011, at 1:00:05
> But Dinah, these drugs are overprescribed and should only be used as a last resort. A regular at the organic store I work at now has diabetes after being on Abilify. She can't take it anymore and realizes she should have been offered other treatements before Abilify.
Especially when there are excellent treatments we've had around for decades - for GAD, depression, bipolar disorder...
>Docs are f*ck*ng AAP coo coo for cocoa puffs dude. It's f*ck*ng out of control.
No kidding. Like Thorazine decades before it, these drugs will probably (technically) retain their indications for nonpsychotic disorders but almost never be prescribed, and the AAP era will be regarded as a dark one in this field of medicine as more and more lawsuits and analyses such as these come out. Wait for them all to come off patent.
Then we'll see a rush to prescribe whatever new is coming out of Pharmaland. I hope not more AAPs, I hope more novel things (like Viibryd).
-z
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