Loading ...IT’S DEPRESSING : ANOTHER BIG PHARMA FIASCO
Jeff Childers has a great important piece on the Antidepressant Epidemic. Copied in a comment .
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Ha…So what a great Gig these A Holes at Big Pharm have eh ?
TheY Do everything to scare you and therefore depress you …then through their distributoon network …better know as you friendly family physician and drug dealers ( pharmacists)… they sell you Antidepressants….which create ALL sorts of MORE horrible medical conditions…and of course they have a “Pill” for each and every one of those too. Those pills however have more side effects than benifits so you need other pills to neutralize those …and on and on we go .
Most of my 60+ year old patients when they fill out their medical history forum list many..often several dozens of medications they are taking …mostly government sposored of course…Pharma makes you sick and Government pays them to do it…Brilliant Business model
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“In other words, a person taking long-term antidepressants has a greater chance of dying from EVERYTHING, but especially from a heart attack. Which is even more depressing than whatever was depressing them to start with. “Here, take this pill to make you happy! But it might kill you.”
People with anxiety disorders have something new to worry about. A study published in the journal PNAS last week was titled, “Antidepressants Can Induce Mutation and Enhance Persistence Toward Multiple Antibiotics.”
Researchers conducted in vitro tests and found that most current antidepressants can “level up” bacteria and give them new powers to resist antibiotics, in some cases making them “super resistant” to multiple antibiotics and even able to transmit resistance genes to each other. The authors explained:
[W]e demonstrate that antidepressants at clinically relevant concentrations induce resistance to multiple antibiotics, even following short periods of exposure. Antibiotic persistence was also enhanced. …Mathematical modeling also predicted that antidepressants would accelerate the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and persister cells would help to maintain the resistance. Overall, our findings highlight the antibiotic resistance risk caused by antidepressants.
The findings were so clear, and so stark, that the researchers called for a re-evaluation of how antidepressants are prescribed:
Considering the high consumption of antidepressants (16,850 kg annually in the United States alone), our findings highlight the need to re-evaluate the antibiotic-like side effects of antidepressants.
The new study only piled more bad news onto depressed consumers. Last week’s study reinforced a previous September 2022 study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry titled, “Adverse Health Outcomes Associated With Long-Term Antidepressant Use.”
The British researchers looked at health data for 200,000 people taking antidepressants and unearthed some troubling statistics. They compared health outcomes between antidepressant users and non-users, looking at six health problems: diabetes, high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, stroke, and two mortality indicators — death from cardiovascular disease and significantly, death from any cause at all.
After adjusting for pre-existing risk factors, the researchers found an association between long-term antidepressant use and an increased risk of coronary heart disease, an increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease, and an increased risk of DEATH FROM ANY CAUSE.
In other words, a person taking long-term antidepressants has a greater chance of dying from EVERYTHING, but especially from a heart attack. Which is even more depressing than whatever was depressing them to start with. “Here, take this pill to make you happy! But it might kill you.”
The researchers concluded that doctors should talk with their patients about the pro’s and con’s and risks and rewards of antidepressants before prescribing the drugs. Which I think is a scholarly way of suggesting the drugs should only be prescribed as little as possible and as short as possible.
I’m old enough to remember when they told us super antibiotic-resistant bacteria was a giant, civilization-ending problem comparable to the horrors of climate change. But I’m guessing that if a solution requires Pharma to cut profits, we’ll be quietly moving along to another hysterical danger.
There is a vast army of trained pharmaceutical sales reps in the U.S. who are pushing questionable drugs on medical doctors with monetary incentives (kickbacks).
This has been going on for decades, but the problem has gotten worse in recent years. See article.
https://www.propublica.org/article/we-found-over-700-doctors-who-were-paid-more-than-a-million-dollars-by-drug-and-medical-device-companies