Posted by yxibow on October 22, 2006, at 5:47:28
In reply to Re: seroquel... » linkadge, posted by Meri-Tuuli on October 22, 2006, at 2:54:08
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> > We are learning things now about the SSRI's that we had no idea of when they were first released.
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> Or the risk of suicide in children/young people.
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> I was very shocked to find out from wikipedia regarding Cymbalta (which I know is not an SSRI and this is off topic now, but still):
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> 'In one trial nearly a fifth of the volunteers testing Eli Lilly's antidepressant drug, duloxetine, dropped out after a 19-year old student committed suicide at a company laboratory. The student, Traci Johnson, was one of 25 healthy patients at an Eli Lilly clinic who were being given larger than therapeutic doses of duloxetine, which will be known as Cymbalta if it is introduced as an antidepressant. Four days before her death, Ms. Johnson was taken off Cymbalta and given a placebo
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> Four other patients who were given the drug during earlier trials also committed suicide, the company said.'
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> How on earth did the drug get approved??!?!?!?First, not everything in Wikipedia is 100% the truth or includes all facts. It is a wonderful resource but it is produced by committee with anybody capable of registering into write articles meeting their standards.
Second of all "greater than normal dose" is a key here, we do not know what "greater than normal is."
Third, less than credible sources reiterate this case throughout a google search, except for a neutral report from the New York Times.
I don't speak for the drug companies or for the fact that I take Cymbalta.
"Drug development should be done by independant researchers at universities (for example) rather than profiteering drug companies who, IMHO, downplay side effects and convince us of the benefits."Drug development is done by independent researchers at universities -- it is not done 100% exclusively within the labs of medical corporations or their subsidiaries. Positive research then may be sold by the university to a subsidiary lab.
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