Posted by cecilia on March 4, 2006, at 3:01:21
In reply to The Truth Do SSRI's and SSNRI's Work For Anyone?, posted by Phillipa on February 27, 2006, at 13:12:49
Someday hopefully we'll have genetic research that will tell us what will work for whom. But I'm suspicious that even so a lot of people will still not get properly treated because drug companies aren't going to waste their money on a drug that works on only a tiny fraction of the population with a certain genetic makeup,( even if they can get it approved.) I read a book many years ago about a young woman with schizophrenia who failed trials of all the AP drugs available at the time. She went into a clinical trial on kidney dialysis for schizophenia. Overall, it worked no better than placebo,so the trial was discontinued. But for her it worked dramatically, she went on to become a pdoc, and at least at the time the book was written had had no more symptoms. There are probably lots of drugs potentially out there that would work the same way-dramatic results for a tiny percentage of the population but never approvable because overall they're no better than placebo. There may be hundreds of different types of depression, but researchers see them as all the same. It' ridiculous-nobody thinks all cancers should be treated exactly the same way. Cecilia
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