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James48 (517 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-23-11 05:23 AM Original message |
VA spent $717 million on a drug deemed as effective as a placebo |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-23-11 05:44 AM Response to Original message |
1. Good on the VA for checking this out. |
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MadLinguist (167 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-23-11 06:03 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Its pretty clear that neither the VA or anybody else knows much about PTSD treatment effectiveness |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-23-11 06:53 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. For me and many like me |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-23-11 08:18 AM Response to Reply #5 |
11. PTSD vets often self-medicate and have additional addiction problems |
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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-23-11 09:26 AM Response to Reply #5 |
13. What little research has been done into the effects of psychedelics |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-23-11 11:12 AM Response to Reply #13 |
20. I've quite the drinking |
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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-23-11 11:23 AM Response to Reply #2 |
21. Not true. Long term behavioral and cognitive therapy work. They just require a lot of $$$ |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-23-11 06:28 AM Response to Original message |
3. Someday, we're going to look back |
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RobinA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-23-11 07:15 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. As Someone Who Works |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-23-11 09:46 AM Response to Reply #3 |
16. I've got an unfortunate family history of mental illness. |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-23-11 06:41 AM Response to Original message |
4. Not to mention it has a few swell side effects. |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-23-11 07:57 AM Response to Original message |
7. Ah, but rich people got richer and that's all that matters in this world. nt |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-23-11 07:59 AM Response to Original message |
8. The lack of evidence of this drug's effectiveness for PTSD has been known |
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bertman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-23-11 08:13 AM Response to Original message |
9. Kinda makes me wish I had bought a lot of J & J stock. I'll bet someone at VA and FDA did that. |
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Spider Jerusalem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-23-11 08:14 AM Response to Original message |
10. I'd honestly think risperidone wasn't a good choice anyway |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-23-11 09:17 AM Response to Original message |
12. I read something the other day about how the placebo effect is getting stronger |
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CanSocDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-23-11 09:30 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Back in the day.... |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-23-11 09:40 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. The guy who ran the lab I worked at thought it was that too |
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truthisfreedom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-23-11 09:54 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Placebos are used more often than you'd think. |
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CanSocDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-23-11 09:59 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Indeed. |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-23-11 10:09 AM Response to Original message |
19. k & r! |
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