Posted by SLS on September 10, 2015, at 21:41:05
In reply to FDA accepts NDA for sensor-embedded Abilify, posted by Tomatheus on September 10, 2015, at 17:12:30
> Tomatheus' comments on this press release:
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> What Otsuka and Proteus seem to be aiming to do with this "digital medicine" bothers me, to say the least. One of the supposed goals of creating this sensor-embedded version of Abilify is to boost patient compliance, but I think that this product has the potential to have the reverse effect because I suspect that certain patients might be less willing to take Abilify to begin with if they know that it has a sensor in it literally monitoring their every move. Additionally, it's my opinion that the last thing that people prone to delusional thinking need is to have their pills embedded with sensors that could relay various bits of information to their doctors and caregivers. Too many individuals with psychotic disorders and mood disorders with psychotic features already hold delusional beliefs about being implanted with microchips, and I think that giving a sensor-embedded version of Abilify to such patients could easily intensify -- and perhaps, in some ways, legitimize -- such delusions. Finally, I think it's a shame that with all of the shortcomings and drawbacks that the pharmaceutical treatments of psychiatric disorders possess that the pharmaceutical industry can't instead focus its energy on making better medications. If this is the best "improvement" that the pharmaceutical industry can come up with, then that, in my opinion, is pretty sad.
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> Tomatheus
You make some excellent points. I hope they have already been considered by the manufacturers. If compliance is an issue, it would have been nice to see a monthly injectable be developed.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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