How is it possible that, because no company with currently patented drugs is campaigning to help medical and nursing staff recognize the catatonic features displayed by one in ten patients going through a psychiatric unit features that could be treated rapidly with benzodiazepines or ECT these features are missed completely?

He estimates that while treatment may cost 750 per patient over two years, the result is likely to be an extra month of work, worth 1880. Lord Layard advocates more psychotherapy rather than drug treatment.

Where are the protests about the one year olds being treated with antipsychotic drugs?

Lord Layard advocates more psychotherapy rather than drug treatment.

An important inquiry set up by the United Kingdom's drug regulators in mid 2003 will soon report its findings. They will no doubt be presented mainly as recommendations for small print changes in the warnings on drug labels and in the instructions for the drug's use.

Patients who do receive care are often treated with substandard, even harmful, medicine.

The results from clinical trials are awaited. But distinctions should be drawn between recreational drugs and medicines, as they are for opiates.

But distinctions should be drawn between recreational drugs and medicines, as they are for opiates.

The advances included heart surgery, drug treatment of high blood pressure, chemotherapy for cancer, and prevention of polio. Comroe traced the origins of these advances back to the breakthrough discoveries that made them possible.

Only by defeating the FARC and eliminating its cocaine and heroin production through an eradication policy of crop spraying and subsidizing cash crop alternatives, can he guarantee security to all Colombians.

The advances included heart surgery, drug treatment of high blood pressure, chemotherapy for cancer, and prevention of polio.

For the past six years, a global effort (called DOTS Plus) to treat people with MDR TB under strict conditions has been underway, reaching thousands with previously untreatable TB.

Moreover, antiretroviral drugs given to pregnant HIV infected women and newborns have proven enormously successful in preventing mother to child transmission of HIV. As a result, since these combinations of drugs were introduced, at least three million years of life have been saved in the United States alone.

Why is it all but impossible to find anything but vilification of ECT on the Internet, and anything but glowing testimonies about drug treatments?

Moreover, antiretroviral drugs given to pregnant HIV infected women and newborns have proven enormously successful in preventing mother to child transmission of HIV.

Likewise, the notion that blood cholesterol should be as low as possible clears a path to treating healthy people with anti cholesteremic agents.

One that is obviously happening all around us now, is that the temes turn us into teme machines, with these implants, with the drugs, with us merging with the technology.

The fundamental purpose of drug companies is to produce profits for shareholders. Naturally, they encourage us to diagnose eating, sleeping, or feeling too much (or too little) as illnesses requiring a chemical cure.

Naturally, they encourage us to diagnose eating, sleeping, or feeling too much (or too little) as illnesses requiring a chemical cure.

On the Richter scale of drug disasters, the looming anti depressant crisis appears to range between 7 and 11, where thalidomide rates a 10. Time will tell, but the key point is this the thalidomide disaster of the 1950's and 1960's happened because there was no independent control of drug safety, whereas the anti depressant crisis has grown under theaegisof an elaborate, expensive, and global regulatory system.