A voice of reason on this sea of ignorance. Over 12 years ago I was diagnosed with anxiety depressive disorder. Life was not worth living (and yes I am a Christian and God was there for me) But a carefully proscribed regimen of SSRI’s and counseling helped lead me out of this dark place. I believe there is a role for carefully administered pharmaceuticals!””
Absolutely. I am glad you have been helped. We know there is abuse of prescription drugs, but that is not the point. The article poster made a ridiculous claim painting our legal drug industry as some villainous monster. This is the approach of the Luddites to all of science. By the way, most people simply turn to alcohol to solve their problems.
Say you’re sorry, bud.
Read the damn NIH medical study acknowledging that pharma has repeatedly been found guilty of conflict of interest bias due to self-funding clinical trials, cherry picking favorable results, and failing to disclose adverse reactions to the drugs they sell us.
It has been found to be So Bad that it took and act of Congress to get the FDA to make clinical trial findings more transparent.
The public, you, your children, your parents should Never have to take a medication that has undergone dishonest trial scrutiny to ensure high efficacy and safety.
Hippocratic oath states: “do no harm”.
Period, end of discussion.
The ClinicalTrials.gov Results Database — Update and Key Issues
“KEY TRIAL-REPORTING POLICIES
Section 801 of the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act (FDAAA)1
expanded the legal requirements for trial reporting at ClinicalTrials.gov.
(NIH study document direct quote, * emphasis added)
It was passed into law amid
concerns about *ethical and scientific issues affecting the design, conduct, and reporting of
clinical trials,2 *including the suppression and selective reporting of results based on the
interests of sponsors,3 unacknowledged alterations of prespecified outcome measures,4 “offshoring” of human-subjects research,5 and *failure to report relevant adverse events.6”
Per NIH study publication:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3066456/