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Appear to Share in the Guilt
    I see that more and more warnings from doctors (M.D.’s and D.O.’s both) against the pharmaceutical companies appear daily. This new hesitancy to jump to the latest medicine is a good sign.
    Perhaps this change may come from guilt of some doctors who in the past participated in the unintentional but real over-medication of patients. More of the warnings seem to come from doctors who are viewing the runaway numbers of cases of patients who get extremely sick and die from medication and prescription mistakes and over-prescriptions.
    Note: To be clear: if a patient “doctor shops” to get multiple prescriptions, neither the doctors nor the pharmaceutical companies can be blamed. If we have a runaway illegal drug overdose problem in the world, and we do, then overdosing on legal prescriptions is going to be even worse. Users need their fix and they will die trying to get that fix. Still, I need to now address doctors prescribing without a known need and also we need to learn about some deceptive advertising practices of pharmaceuticals if I am to be fair and address the problem as a whole.
    If the current trend of doctor warnings continues, the public will be better informed and warily guard against accepting the answer of “another drug” as definitive. That is good. The truth, though, is that most doctors are ignorant, either willfully or through their AMA and AOA-approved training, of the problem with medicine today.
    Dr. David Healy states that drug companies frequently hide vital information about their drugs in order to get them on them market and keep them there. How qualified is he to speak? Dr. Healy, a professor of psychiatry in North Wales and Great Britain is a former secretary of the British Association for Psychopharmacology and author of over 175 peer-reviewed articles, 200 other pieces, and 20 books, including  Let Them Eat Prozac  and  Pharmageddon .
    Dr. Healy, for example , studied the serotonin-uptake theory in depressed patients, and is adamant that there's no evidence indicating that depressed patients have something wrong with their serotonin system, which makes selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors ( SSRI 's) a dubious treatment for depression. It may even be part of the equation for why some people become suicidal on SSRI's, even if they've never had such tendencies before.
    "We've got 30 to 40 years' worth of work, and no evidence has come to light that there's anything wrong with the serotonin system in people who were depressed,"   he says.

What Good is the FDA Anyway?
    If a drug company issues a drug that turns out to be dangerous, why is the drug company the only one deemed liable? The FDA makes pharmaceuticals jump through countless hoops and pay millions of dollars before any drug can come to market, prescription or OTC (Over the Counter). If the FDA accepts no blame after their “approval” but costs patients billions of dollars over the decades for those drug “approvals,” then we should begin systematically disassembling the Food and Drug Administration. Or we should at the least hold them equally accountable when a drug is exposed to be deadly.
    My vote would be to eliminate them and let the free market determine which drugs are approved and safe. The free market’s track record can’t very well be any worse than the FDA’s or the current pharmaceutical systems.

Why is a Warning Bad?
    Referring to the data showing SSRI’s ineffective at best and seemingly dangerous enough to be deadly, t he FDA argued that putting a warning on the drug might deter people from treatment. Read that again. See, by doing the right thing, we might end up with a detrimental outcome the drug companies argue.
    N o one addressed the fact that not putting a warning on the drug might make more people use them , hence killing more people, more indiscriminately. This is exactly the situation we're dealing with now. Even with the warning, antidepressants are prescribed