Posted by psyclist on November 11, 2008, at 8:38:18
In reply to What is your definition of a 'Miracle Drug'?, posted by SLS on November 6, 2008, at 17:34:50
> Everyone has their own concept of what a miracle drug might be when treating mental illness.
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> What's yours?
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> What are your requirements for a drug to be deemed a miracle drug?
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> - ScottTo find the miracle drug you first have to find what is wrong with you. Speaking for myself I am unable to distinguish root cause from undesirable side effect. Are the symptoms that bug me caused by my brain itself or by the drugs and the interaction of the drugs that have been prescribed for me? Then again a quest for the miracle drug demands access to a wide variety of medication coupled with deep pockets to pay for it. Here in the UK under the NHS (National Health Service) I doubt whether this access exists. I suppose a miracle drug is one which silences all your symptoms regardless of diagnosis and other medication. Then again how do you know that the miracle maker is acting alone? It might be a combined effort. Could it be that going backwards is just as effective as going forwards? By this I mean what about stripping all the medication away and confronting ab initio the root cause of the disease. I think the path to a cure is so littered with ineffectual drugs which set up symptoms and side-effects of their own that very often the original complaint is drowned out. In conclusion there is no miracle drug only a drug that under certain circumstances works well. Once you've prescribed a host of medications the root disease is lost sight of. Psychiatrists fiddle and in so doing lose the path back to the original disease.
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