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Guest	Post subject: Feel-good drugs and flaccid fallacies Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2002 9:31 pm
	From AP on Aug. 26:<p>WASHINGTON — Starting next week, psychiatrists will be able to prescribe an eagerly awaited new anti-depressant called Lexapro. <p>*** Um ... if people are capable of feeling "eager," wouldn't that by definition mean that they wouldn't have any use for such a drug? How about "a drug anticipated with moroseness, lethargy and general apathy"?
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KfitzR	Post subject: Re: Feel-good drugs and flaccid fallacies Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2002 12:28 pm
Joined: Thu Apr 18, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 836 Location: New Brunswick, Canada	Maybe it's the psychiatrists that are eagerly anticipating? But ... less depression means less business and that might be depressing for psychiatrists ... who would then at least know that there was a new therapy for their ailments ... but by then would be too depressed to really care ... Or maybe it's the family and friends of the depressed who are eager in their approach to the impending release of the drug. That's it. Anything that will get Charlie off the couch so we can vacuum it and check for spare change behind the cushions would be a good thing. Or maybe it's just the drug companies eagerly awaiting the profits, now that hormone replacement therapy has gone down the tubes.
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zfriloux	Post subject: Re: Feel-good drugs and flaccid fallacies Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2002 7:48 pm
Joined: Tue Aug 06, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 37 Location: Colorado	Of course it's the drug companies who have eagerly awaited this day, when newspapers across the country run this story heralding their product. Unfortunately, I think a lot of health stories newspapers are running these days read like this.
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tommangan	Post subject: Re: Feel-good drugs and flaccid fallacies Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 10:25 am
Joined: Mon Apr 08, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 485 Location: San Jose, CA	All kidding aside: If you wake up every day for a year feeling like one of your best available options is to blow your brains out, you'll have some idea how eagerly awaited any new depression drug could be.
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zfriloux	Post subject: Re: Feel-good drugs and flaccid fallacies Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 11:10 pm
Joined: Tue Aug 06, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 37 Location: Colorado	You do have a point. But from what I've seen -- which is more than I'd like -- the people who need such drugs rarely are aware of them until after they become available. Of course, there could be a few more eager people out there now, thanks to this story.
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