Athiesm, religion, and drugs...

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All drugs are bad in my book.

No offence Pip,but that takes the biscuit as the most ignorant thing I've seen you say here.


Insulin is a drug,without it many type one diabetics would simply die.

Antibiotics are drugs,without them people die from simple infections, not to mention childbirth and bone fractures where the skin is broken.

I tried non prescription drug approaches to dealing with my depression for a decade. The result; chronic alcoholism. I started my current medication only after I got sober.


Selective Serotonin Re uptake Inhibitors are taken by millions of people for depression. They work. Addictive? Not in the accepted sense,but I don't care.. I function well and am content mostly. Currently, I'm enjoying my longest period of stability (5years) in the last 35 years.

Of course you are entitled to your opinion,no matter how wrong headed. However,to encourage other people not to take prescribed medication with that stupid genralisation is in my my opinion criminally irresponsible


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SSRI addiction is a myth
10. July 2004 10:59
Up to two out of three people who come off modern anti-depressants suffer short-term withdrawal symptoms including dizziness, nausea and low mood. But it is impossible for anyone to become addicted to SSRIs, the Royal College of Psychiatrists heard yesterday.

"Worries about addiction have arisen because doctors mistake these withdrawal symptoms for continuing depression and put people back on antidepressants, instead of reassuring them that the symptoms will soon go,' Dr Peter Haddad, a psychiatrist at the Community Mental Health Centre in Manchester, told the College's annual conference. "Typically the symptoms stop immediately the drug is restarted which gives people the impression that they are addicted.

But Dr Haddad said that dependency in the sense of having a powerful urge to continue a drug, often for more gratification, does not happen with SSRIs. Antidepressants do not have street value. People do not forge prescriptions for fluoxetine. Nor do they register with multiple GPs, turn up at A&E departments to get more supplies or lie in bed craving an antidepressant,' he said. "As long as it is used widely, antidepressants have clear benefits, allowing people to get on with their lives.'

http://www.news-medical.net/news/2004/07/10/3237.aspx