Posted by med_empowered on December 22, 2006, at 17:18:05
In reply to Re: Zyprexa raises blood sugar artificialy on its, posted by notfred on December 22, 2006, at 16:50:24
yeah...I think part of the problem here is that Lilly got greedy and started whispering into doctor's ears: "zyprexa for...EVERYTHING" And it worked. Zyprexa and other atypicals are being used for anxiety and sleep, depression, agitation, so on and so forth. Its ridiculous.
I think its worth noting that when neuroleptics first hit it big in the 50s with the glut of phenothiazines on the market, they were also being used for everything. They were being used in combo pills with amphetamine (eskatrol, thora-dex) and with barbiruates (Janimine--stelazine plus amytal) and for psychosis and depression and anxiety and "hyperkinetic children"...so on and so forth. Enter the 70s, and the "discovery" of TD...then in the 80s, finally, shrinks started to lay off the over-RX-ing of APs, but mostly just because they were being sued left and right, and many of these lawsuits proved both successful and expensive (not to mention embarassing for a profession that has never really been well respected by other docs or the public at large).
So...yeah. Maybe some good will come out of all this. Maybe docs will stop giving everybody neuroleptics (hey, maybe one day they'll even let the schizophrenic people try something else).
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