drug withdrawal

[Carrol Cox]

I was on Paxil (maximum dosage) for several years, and went off it with
no trouble. I don't doubt that it is causing trouble for some -- but
when a drug has effects (positive or negative) for only a part of those
who take it, then it would be difficult, I should  think, to establish
any clear causal relationship. As I said in an earlier post,
psychopharmacology and neuropsychiatry are in a pretty primitive state.
And as I also observed, for research to be in the hands of drug
companies is necessarily disruptive. A company has a motive _not_ to
release a new drug while an earlier drug is still under patent. It is
also counter-productive (for a drug company) to explore new uses for old
medications now available as generics. The discovery in recent years of
numerous new uses of aspirin is notable for the rare occurrence of such
discoveries. Also of course, very little research is done on possible
combinations (destructive and useful) of current medications. The
prescription by different physicians of drugs which turn out to have
disastrous mutual effects is becoming more common.

Carrol

Marta Russell wrote:
> 
> >Antidepressant Seroxat tops table of drug withdrawal symptoms
> >Sarah Boseley, health editor
> >Saturday July 27, 2002
> >The Guardian
> >
> >Seroxat, the British-made antidepressant which outsells Prozac,
> >causes more people distressing
> >withdrawal problems when they try to stop taking it than any other
> >drug in the UK.
> >
> 
> This is the same drug known as Paxil in the USA.  There is a class
> action lawsuit challenging the drug corps claim that it is a non
> addictive drug.
> 
> http://www.quitpaxil.org/
> 
> --
> Marta Russell
> Los Angeles, CA
> http://www.disweb.org