[neverdem]

Regulators Approve Patch to Treat Depression AP via NY Times

[al baby]

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[neverdem]

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[jennyp]

Something I've wondered: Why do all those anti-depression drugs always say that they take six weeks before they have any effect??? It's supposed to be a neurotransmitter, or a stimulant for such. So it gets into the brain, and it should start doing something. Anything. Shouldn't it?

Very strange. >:-/

[Old Sarge]

One study found that six weeks of treatment with Emsam was more effective than a non-medicinal placebo in relieving symptoms of major depression disorder in adults

Ain't that, like, common sense? ANY drug might be more effective than the placebo?

[HiTech RedNeck]

The side effects of the patch form couldn't be worse than that of the pill form.

Why of all medications, an MAO inhibitor as the first patch form. I would have expected to see a Prozac patch.

[Straight Vermonter]

I am surprised that the usual freeper nay sayers have not yet arrived to tell us that depression is a character flaw not a disease.

[Walkingfeather]

Wouldnt an more effective way to dispurse this drug be by dart? Then we could start a urban program starting in the skid row areas and hire gang bangers that you gotta admit, already enjoy shooting people, to shoot the people on the streets that could use a little lift. We could set up point values and form fantasy leagues...... hmmm maybe there should be limits to my imagination...

[Tall_Texan]

How long before somebody on the patch goes on a rampage and the lawyers sue the manufacturer out of existence?