medication

Drug Information

June 16, 2008

Prescription Drug use as a depression treatment for dealing with depression is individual and unique to the patient some improve others get worse. Is it placebo? Or do they really help with depression symptoms. I believe in antidepressants and regular counseling, both constitute to help with depression and aid the objective, which is to find a depression cure. Depression has become so common [...]

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Define Drug Dealers?

May 2, 2008

In the late 1970′s there was a decline in the marketing of tranquillisers and the big drug companies made great effort to remedy this. One particular way was to distribute to 1000′s of GP’s a book, called ‘Recognising the depressed patient’ (Frank Ayd)   At the same time they were promoting a drug for the diagnosis of depression. [...]

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Children and Drugs – Unknown effects

April 21, 2008

I came across this interesting article from ‘Dr Charles Parker CorePsycBlog’ Psych meds are often written for children with little appreciation of the overall metabolic issues present in the child. -If we don’t understand the child’s ability to metabolize medications, don’t look adequately for comorbid conditions which can effect metabolic rates, and don’t think about [...]

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