Medications in Psychiatry...

So much is not widely known about these agents. Back in the 50's, when we could do little more than lock patients up on back wards of 2,000 resident state sanatoria, use electroconvulsive (shock) treatments, insulin shock therapies, psycho ANALytic nonsense talk therapies, and mostly in better times, merely allow these poor folks to wander about the verdant lovely hospital grounds,---it was discovered, serendipitously, that while treating TB and other infections with a new drug, in some patients, symptoms of depression and psychosis seemed to decrease. The big drug companies were then off and running to develop other such medications. Not long afterward, the feds instituted the FDA- supposedly to protect the public with regard to medical treatments. Dirty little secret is, for a new drug to gain approval, only two positive research studies were required, even if the results in support of the new patent were marginal at best. Negative studies were given little attention, and all sorts of biases were ignored in both the conduct and the publication of this research. Just getting warmed up here, peebles. Aa.

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Redex●Northumberland, England UK

Sep 9, 2017●5,763 Comments

well now A its a good job i am in nature, grass grows freely it has been well researched, even gives us milk cheese which makes us happy smoked

cheese that is. can of course go in scones for older ladies tea parties

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