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To: Gersh Avery who wrote (459193)	2/24/2009 9:51:06 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1575417

>> Prozac etc. Do you have any idea how many thousands of lives have been saved by Prozac? When it came out in the late-80s, there was literally no effective drug for treating depression. Nothing. And it was expensive at the time (now, as generic, it is dirt cheap -- my dog's on it). It is a great drug that was highly effective at a time when no other treatment option for depressed individuals was worth a crap. My mother-in-law suffered through at least 50 shock treatments in the late 50s and early 60s in a [failed] effort to allow her a normal life. Had she had Prozac, it is entirely possible she could have done just that. More than 50 million people have been treated with Prozac over the last 20+ years. Prozac made a fortune for Eli Lilly. That profit motive is the SOLE REASON that we continue to get important, life saving, quality of life improving drugs. It is hard to understand why people would criticize these medications or the companies who make them, MERELY because they make a profit on them. THINK ABOUT THAT THE NEXT TIME YOU POP A F*ING VIAGRA.