Posted by Jiggitykid on September 22, 2004, at 7:36:36
In reply to Re: Effexor withdrawal symptoms! Lawsuit, posted by Dave001 on September 21, 2004, at 22:36:07
I can only make an informed decision about *my* treatment if I AM GIVEN THE FACTS UP FRONT. The drug company is KNOWINGLY hiding information about this drug and about how ADDICTIVE it is and the HORRIBLE WITHDRAWAL EFFECTS suffered regardless of tapering or quitting cold turkey. They are DELIBERATELY DECEIVING the public and the physicians, and a lawsuit brought against them would REQUIRE that the information from INDEPENDENT CLINICAL TRIALS as well as their own trials be REVEALED TO THE PUBLIC AND TO THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY UP FRONT. This "mentality" you are denegrading is one of protection, for YOU and for ME. A lawsuit would not require that this drug be removed from the market, but that the drug companies do something refreshing, TELL THE TRUTH. That's what this is about.
I ask you: HOW DO YOU PROPOSE THAT ONE MAKE AN INFORMED DECISION ABOUT MEDICAL TREATMENT WHEN ONE IS NOT GIVEN ALL OF THE FACTS, GOOD AND BAD, ABOUT THE DRUG?????? This forum is to share information about reactions, responses and experiences with prescription drugs. That is *my* right.
I also ask you, have you personally suffered the hellish withdrawal effects of this drug??????? I think your opinion would change.
> > I just found this post and thought I'd point everyone to it. PLEASE, do this:
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> > http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20030407/msgs/216941.html
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> It is precisely this kind of mentality that hampers medical progress in the U.S. As an adult, I feel it should be within my legal right to decide which medications I am allowed to put in my body, so long as my choice does not pose a threat to others, and does not interfere with *your* right to the same. However, that also carries with it the responsibility that if something bad happens to me as a result, I am also responsible for my consequences. Do you not also want that right? Because you can't have it both ways. The sort of legal action and regulatory measures you seem to be proposing would interfere with *my* freedom to exercise *my* judgment according to what I think is in the best interest of *my* health. The problem is that people want to be able to do whatever they want without taking any responsibility for their actions. Something bad happens and immediately the knee-jerk reaction is to find someone else to blame, to sue, or whatever.
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> Dave
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