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Biotech / Medical : PFE (Pfizer) How high will it go? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Poet who wrote (4480)	7/21/1998 1:01:00 AM
From: Tunica Albuginea	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9523

Poet, the only correct statement in your post is about psychologists not having a fit over Prozac. I meant to write, " psychiatrists ". i.e. psychiatrists are having a fit over HMO curtailing payments for longer " talk sessions ", even if coupled with drugs; per WSJ article ~ 1 year ago.Psychiatrists are MDs who at least have some familiarity with pharmacology. Psychologists instead are...... ? ( ...what? you fill in the blanks ). In regards to Prozac let me point out to those possessed by the insidious disease " prescribitis " that as per the 1998 PDR, the ONLY approved uses for Prozac are Major Depression, obsessive-compulsion and bulimia. PDR does mention unproved uses which is what you are referring to. I don't buy that. That's some 2 bit scientist unable to get his papers published so he talks about it in the throw away journals. Something like the " unproved" use of Procardia by PFE to treat acute hypertension ( was approved for chronic hypertension only ). It took 10 years to prove that it killed people from heart attacks and so that "unproved" indication has now been formally rejected, after who knows how many deaths.Those would not have occurred if people had stuck to the approved indications. Certainly there is little evidence that the whole sale prescribing of Prozac for all kinds of depression ( not just the indicated, relatively rare, Major type )has only produced a whole bunch of doped folks walking around like zombies no better perhaps than their previous depressed state.Just add Prozac to 6 other pills and walk around in a trance: you won't feel the pain and life will just pass you buy.Not to worry, we got things under control, TA