The New Science

[joanna bujes]

There was some hypothesizing last week that the reason patients taking 
anti-depressants sometimes commit suicide is that these drugs make them 
feel well enough that they have the energy to execute a plan (liek 
suicide)...before making a full recovery and realizing that the plan is a 
bad one. This runs counter to what I have been reading about 
anti-depressants...that being that they are, in the main, drugs that 
increase one's agitational level and that, in fact, the risk for suicide 
rises as much in the control group (of nondepressed patients) as it does 
with those who are suffering from depression. Unfortunately, I can't cite 
that article, but the following one suggests how much research data has to 
do with pharmacological science these days. FYI.

Joanna
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Suicide Science

The current situation in peer-reviewed publication in
academic and clinical medical research is starting to
resemble the Church's control over publication of
anything in, say, 1300.

    RICK GIOMBETTI

See:

         http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20020412&fname=rick&sid=1