Amerykanie ćpają coraz więcej leków

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Niepokojące zjawisko wśród Amerykanów

Według badań naukowców z Columbia University w Nowym Jorku i Uniwersytetu Pensylwanii w Filadelfii mieszkańcy USA zażywają coraz więcej leków antydepresyjnych – donosi serwis Alertnet.

Liczba przepisanych recept w 1996 roku sięgała 13 milionów. Do 2006 roku podwoiła się, i wynosi obecnie 27 mln. Lekarstwa zwykle przepisywane są gdy u pacjenta zdiagnozuje się depresję.

- Znaczny wzrost używania lekarstw antydepresyjnych zaobserwowaliśmy we wszystkich grupach społecznych w kraju – powiedział dr Mark Olfson z Columbia University. Wyjątkiem są Afroamerykanie, u których takiego wzrostu nie zaobserwowano – dodał naukowiec.

Amerykanie częściej wybierają pigułki zamiast psychoterapię – jest to niepokojące zjawisko, gdyż u młodych osób, które stawiają tylko na tę formę leczenia mogą rodzić się zaburzenia zachowania i myśli samobójcze – czytamy w serwisie.

http://wiadomosci.onet.pl/2020130,12,item.html

Ciekawe dlaczego nie zanotowano tego u Afroamerykanów?

Swoją drogą ostatnio często przyglądam się etykietom produktów. Aspartam można znaleźć praktycznie w każdym soku owocowym czy napoju. Na jednym z opakowań moja uwagę zwrócił napis: "Zawiera źródło fenyloalaniny" (czy coś w tym stylu). Sprawdziłem na Wikipedii czym jest ta substancja i wszystko stało się jasne:

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Nadmierny poziom fenyloalaniny w mózgu może powodować obniżenie poziomu serotoniny. Prowadzi to do zaburzeń emocjonalnych takich jak depresja. Sztuczny środek słodzący – aspartam, spożywany w nadmiernych ilościach może u niektórych osób spowodować wzrost stężenia fenyloalaniny we krwi. Jednorazowe spożycie dużej ilości fenyloalaniny może mieć działanie przeczyszczające.

http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenyloalanina

wiadro

afro pala trawke Smile

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Bimi

Tutaj dłuższy tekst na ten temat po angielsku:
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N03411375.htm

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* Use doubles from 13 million to 27 million Americans

* Increase in use not seen among blacks

* More Americans may accept diagnosis of depression

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor

WASHINGTON, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Use of antidepressant drugs in the United States doubled between 1996 and 2005, probably because of a mix of factors, researchers reported on Monday.

About 6 percent of people were prescribed an antidepressant in 1996 -- 13 million people. This rose to more than 10 percent or 27 million people by 2005, the researchers found.

"Significant increases in antidepressant use were evident across all sociodemographic groups examined, except African Americans," Dr. Mark Olfson of Columbia University in New York and Steven Marcus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia wrote in the Archives of General Psychiatry.

"Not only are more U.S. residents being treated with antidepressants, but also those who are being treated are receiving more antidepressant prescriptions," they added.

More than 164 million prescriptions were written in 2008 for antidepressants, totaling $9.6 billion in U.S. sales, according to IMS Health.

Drugs that affect the brain chemical serotonin like GlaxoSmithKline's <GSK.L> Paxil, known generically as paroxetine, and Eli Lilly and Co's <LLY.N> Prozac, known generically as fluoxetine, are the most commonly prescribed class of antidepressant. But the study found the effect in all classes of the drugs.

Olfson and Marcus looked at the Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys done by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, involving more than 50,000 people in 1996 and 2005.

"During this period, individuals treated with antidepressants became more likely to also receive treatment with antipsychotic medications and less likely to undergo psychotherapy," they wrote.

SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE

The survey did not look at why, but the researchers made some educated guesses. It may be more socially acceptable to be diagnosed with and treated for depression, they said. The availability of new drugs may also have been a factor.

"Although there was little change in total promotional spending for antidepressants between 1999 ($0.98 billion) and 2005 ($1.02 billion), there was a marked increase in the percentage of this spending that was devoted to direct-to consumer advertising, from 3.3 percent ($32 million) to 12 percent ($122.00 million)," they added.

Dr. Eric Caine of the University of Rochester in New York said he was concerned by the findings. "Antidepressants are only moderately effective on population level," he said in a telephone interview.

Caine, who was not involved in the research, noted that several studies show therapy is as effective as, if not more effective than, drug use alone.

"There are no data to say that the population is healthier. Indeed, the suicide rate in the middle years of life has been climbing," he said.

Olfson and Marcus said out-of-pocket costs for psychotherapy and lower insurance coverage for such visits may have driven patients away from seeing therapists in favor of an easy-to-prescribe pill.

The rise in antidepressant prescriptions also is seen despite a series of public health warnings on use of antidepressant drugs beginning in 2003 after clinical trials showed they increased the risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in children and teens.

In February 2005, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration added its strongest warning, a so-called black box, on the use of all antidepressants in children and teens.

(Editing by Philip Barbara)

Ordel

TABLETKI SZCZĘŚCIA

http://www.planete.pl/program/full?29595

ogladałem ten program , masakra , najlepsze są opowiesci nastolatków o imprezach na których łyka się tabletki garsciami . Jedna laska wiek koło 17 lat opowiada , że na jednej imprezi jak zjadła garsć leków to odrętwiała nie mogła nic zrobic . Jakis koleś zaciągna ją do pokoju i zgwałcił , a póżniej jeszcze jej wpierdolił .
Albo mówi jakis naukowiec że miał jakięs sympozjum i jechał przez 3 czy 4 dni na czymś co jest legalne ale działa jak amfa . Najlepsze że wiedział że to raczej na dłuższa mete mu zaszkodzi , ale praca jest dla niego najważniejsza.
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Bimi

tym razem news o wielkiej brytani

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Lives destroyed by happy pills: As our use of antidepressants DOUBLES in a decade, experts say thousands are being given dangerous drugs they don't need

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/articl.....-need.html

JimmyB

80% lekarzy, szczególnie tych "rodzinnych", zajmuje się obecnie głównie dystrybucją, w bardzo wielu przypadkach niepotrzebnych, farmaceutyków Smile

A jako że cieszą się wszędzie na świecie dużym zaufaniem w społeczeństwach - ludzie łykają to, co święty i nieomylny doktór zapisze.

Bimi

James Ridgeway writes in Al Jazeera that with over $14 billion in sales in 2008, antipsychotics have become the single top-selling therapeutic class of prescription drugs in the U.S., surpassing drugs used to treat high cholesterol and acid reflux. While once upon a time, antipsychotics were reserved for a relatively small number of patients with hard-core psychiatric diagnoses, today it seems, everyone is taking antipsychotics. 'Parents are told that their unruly kids are in fact bipolar, and in need of anti-psychotics, while old people with dementia are dosed, in large numbers, with drugs once reserved largely for schizophrenics,' writes Ridgeway. 'Americans with symptoms ranging from chronic depression to anxiety to insomnia are now being prescribed anti-psychotics at rates that seem to indicate a national mass psychosis.' By now, just about everyone knows how the drug industry works to influence the minds of American doctors, plying them with gifts, junkets, ego-tripping awards, and research funding in exchange for endorsing or prescribing the latest and most lucrative drugs. According to Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, under the tutelage of Big Pharma, we are 'simply expanding the criteria for mental illness so that nearly everyone has one.'

http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/16/036230/Mass-Psychosis-In-the-USA

Glopez

Szkoda kurwa, że tych pierdolniętych ludzi jest więcej, a co za tym idzie debilizm staje się normą, i naprawdę rozsądni ludzie są uważani za pojebów.

Swoją drogą, doktorzy mogliby sie rozpędzić i przepisywać im co najmniej klony, byłoby może faktycznie deczko spokojniej.
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Drug Use Now Kills More People Than Traffic Accidents [Study]

In 1979 the U.S. Government began tracking drug-related deaths and for the first time those deaths have surpassed the number of traffic fatalities on an annual basis.

The most recent statistics which were taken in 2009 shows that 37,485 people died in traffic related accidents while 36,284 people died from drug related activities in a one year period.

Surprisingly the main culprit of those deaths were not street illegal drugs but rather prescription options including Xanax, OxyContin and the main culprit Vicodin which killed more people than cocaine and heroin combined.

Speaking to the Los Angeles Times a Santa Barbara sheriff said:

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“The problem is right here under our noses in our medicine cabinets.”

The study also revealed that traffic related fatalities have actually fallen by a third since the 1970s even as the number of drivers using American roadways continues to increase, while drug related deaths have doubled in the last decade. Deaths among the 50-year-old to 69-year-old crowd have been even worse, tripling during the same time period.

Not all deaths have been related to drug overdoses from drug abuse, in many cases double dosing by adults has been the culprit.

When asked how drug related deaths can be reduced one researcher said:

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“What’s really scary is we don’t know a lot about how to reduce prescription deaths,” while adding, “It’s a wonderful medical advancement that we can treat pain, but we haven’t figured out the safety belt yet.”

In the meantime parents are urged to speak with their kids not just about street illegal drugs but also the medications found in medicine cabinets which can be just as addictive and just as deadly.

http://www.inquisitr.com/142881/drug-use.....nts-study/

Bimi

CDC: Antidepressant use skyrocketed in past 20 years

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 19 (HealthDay News) -- The rate of antidepressant use among Americans of all ages increased nearly 400 percent over the last two decades, and 11 percent of Americans aged 12 and older now take antidepressant drugs, according to a federal government report released Wednesday.

The analysis of 2005-2008 data from the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys also showed that antidepressants are the third most common prescription drug taken by Americans of all ages and the most frequently used by those aged 18 to 44.

Of people with severe depression, about one-third takes antidepressant medication. More than 60 percent of Americans taking an antidepressant drug have taken it for two years or longer and nearly 14 percent have taken the medication for 10 years or more, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers.

reszta: http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health/stor.....titialskip

Bimi

Bimi napisał:

Drug Use Now Kills More People Than Traffic Accidents

Abuse of painkillers reaches 'epidemic' levels in US

Abuse of prescription painkiller have reached "epidemic" levels in the US, a government report says.

Overdoses of pain relievers cause more deaths than heroin and cocaine combined, the report has found.

It says sales and prescriptions of the drugs rose sharply in recent years and this was linked to the rise in overdoses.

Narcotic painkillers are prescribed to relieve chronic pain but the drugs can be "highly addictive", the report says.

The report, published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said fatalities caused by narcotic pain relievers have more than tripled in the last 10 years - equivalent to 40 deaths a day.

Last year, a national survey on drug use and health showed that one in 20 Americans over the age of 12 said they had used painkillers for non-medical reasons.

Named as the fastest growing drug problem facing the US, narcotic painkillers are increasingly used recreationally - for the high they cause.

reszta: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15548478

Bimi

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Overdoses of pain relievers cause more deaths than heroin and cocaine combined, the report has found.

It says sales and prescriptions of the drugs rose sharply in recent years and this was linked to the rise in overdoses.

Ale żeby nie było, że nic z tym nie robią, chyba właśnie skazali za to pierwszego lekarza Smile

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Sąd w Los Angeles uznał doktora Conrada Murraya winnym nieumyślnego spowodowania śmierci Michalea Jacksona.

Podczas trwającego 6 tygodni procesu przesłuchano 49 świadków. Murray oskarżony był o nieumyślne spowodowanie śmierci poprzez podanie Jacksonowi dawki silnego leku przeciwbólowego. Propofol w połączeniu z innymi lekami, które zażywał gwiazdor, spowodował jego śmierć.

http://www.kozaczek.pl/plotka.php?id=33792

Bimi

Tym razem ta sama wiadomość tylko z Wielkiej Brytanii:

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Anti-depressant use soars in England, linked to recession
December 30, 2011

The use of anti-depressant drugs in England has soared by 28 percent in the past three years, coinciding with the country's fall into recession and the global economic crisis, new figures showed Friday.

Prescriptions went up from just under 34 million to 43.4 million between 2007-08 and 2010-11, according to figures from the National Health Service (NHS) Information Centre.

The use of anti-anxiety drugs rose by eight percent over the period, from just over six million to 6.5 million, while prescriptions for sleeping pills rose three percent to 10.2 million.

Experts said the increase may be due to stress around the economic crisis, which began in 2008, as well as as greater awareness of mental illness.

"For some people depression just happens, but for others it is triggered by stressful events, for example losing a job, property or bereavement," said Emer O'Neill, chief executive of campaign group Depression Alliance.

"These uncertain economic times are linked to an increase in the number of people with the illness."

According to The Independent newspaper, depression is costing the country almost £11 billion (13 billion euros, $16 billion) a year in lost earnings, demands on the state-run NHS and drug prescriptions.

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-an.....ssion.html

A czy ty wziąłeś już dziś swoją tabletkę szczęścia? Smile

Vril

Nie będzie końca Świata. Ale koniec człowieczeństwa zbliża się błyskawicznie.
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dromek

Nie martw się bimi o nadużywanie antydepresantów.
Twoją malutką główkę lepiej żeby zainteresowały neuroleptyki. To są leki stosowane w leczeniu psychoz z urojeniami, chodzi zwłaszcza o schizofrenię.
Rozumiem, że lękasz się , że ktoś cię w końcu zmusi do przyjmowania tych ostatnich leków właśnie.
To będzie dla ciebie wybawienie, wreszcie będziesz mógł ze spokojem obejrzeć amerykańskie dokumenty z lądowania na Księżycu, przestaniesz dostrzegać hologramy samolotów 11.09. i zrozumiesz, że w Smoleńsku był Zamach.
Całuję cię w czółko i życzę, żeby w tym 2012 roku psychiatrzy się do ciebie dobrali wreszcie. Wink

Bimi

dzięki ci dromku, nasz genialny neurologu, za twe profesjonalne ekspertyzy na mym skromnym forum.

a teraz włącz se jeszcze raz film z wysadzanym WTC i powtarzaj sobie dalej że to tylko pożar, zaś ty jesteś mądry, bystry, oczytany i bierzesz antydepresanty aby takim pozostać.
bardzo zresztą słusznie - koniecznie nie przestawaj ich brać!
bo gdybyś je odstawił to istnieje realne ryzyko, że targniesz się na własne życie po uświadomieniu sobie tego jak wielkim jesteś zjebem. a tak, dwie tabletki szczęścia dziennie i możesz dożyć błogiej starości - czego ci więcej trzeba w życiu?

Bimi

Bimi

A fog of drugs and war

More than 110,000 active-duty Army troops last year took antidepressants, sedatives and other prescription medications. Some see a link to aberrant behavior.

Patrick Burke with his wife, Elise, and their son, Jackson. In a drunk driving and auto theft case last year, the Air Force pilot was found not guilty "by reason of lack of mental responsibility" -- a result of the prescription drugs he'd taken. (Burke Family Photo, Burke Family Photo. / January 21, 2012)

SEATTLE — U.S. Air Force pilot Patrick Burke's day started in the cockpit of a B-1 bomber near the Persian Gulf and proceeded across nine time zones as he ferried the aircraft home to South Dakota.

Every four hours during the 19-hour flight, Burke swallowed a tablet of Dexedrine, the prescribed amphetamine known as "go pills." After landing, he went out for dinner and drinks with a fellow crewman. They were driving back to Ellsworth Air Force Base when Burke began striking his friend in the head.

"Jack Bauer told me this was going to happen — you guys are trying to kidnap me!" he yelled, as if he were a character in the TV show "24."

When the woman giving them a lift pulled the car over, Burke leaped on her and wrestled her to the ground. "Me and my platoon are looking for terrorists," he told her before grabbing her keys, driving away and crashing into a guardrail.

Burke was charged with auto theft, drunk driving and two counts of assault. But in October, a court-martial judge found the young lieutenant not guilty "by reason of lack of mental responsibility" — the almost unprecedented equivalent, at least in modern-day military courts, of an insanity acquittal.

Four military psychiatrists concluded that Burke suffered from "polysubstance-induced delirium" brought on by alcohol, lack of sleep and the 40 milligrams of Dexedrine he was issued by the Air Force.

dalej: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/.....1311.story

War on drugs? 110k active US troops 'on prescribed meds'

Thousands of US soldiers are going into battle fueled by all sorts of prescription medications, be they amphetamines, antidepressants, sedatives or others. Largely unmonitored consumption of drugs can lead to aberrant behavior and mental disorders.

Over 110,000 American service personnel took prescribed medications in 2011 to battle through everyday military routine.

The Times recently disclosed that nearly 8 per cent of active-duty American servicemen and women take sedatives and over 6 per cent are on antidepressants, a tremendous eightfold increase since 2005, when two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were in full swing.

dalej: http://rt.com/news/us-army-medicine-drugs-580/

Bimi

Americans consume EIGHTY percent of the world's pain pills as prescription drug abuse epidemic explodes

Americans consume 80 percent of the world's supply of painkillers -- more than 110 tons of pure, addictive opiates every year -- as the country's prescription drug abuse epidemic explodes.

That's enough drugs to give every single American 64 Percocets or Vicodin. And pain pill prescriptions continue to surge, up 600 percent in ten year, thanks to doctors who are more and more willing to hand out drugs to patients who are suffering.

As more people get their hands on these potentially-dangerous drugs, more are taking them to get high. Their drug abuse leads to 14,800 deaths a year -- more than from heroin and cocaine combined.

dalej: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-.....lodes.html

NWOPL

Moze mi ktos strescic o co chodzi z tymi anty-depresentami?
Znajomy dostal ostatnio w pizde od zycia i chce isc do GP po recepte.
Jak one dzialaja? Skutki uboczne? Jakas lepsza alternatywa?
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Bimi

jak ma taką depresję, że chce się zajebać, to lepiej niech je bierze - na pewno od samobójstwa go odwiodą.
aczkolwiek chemia go z depresji nie wyleczy - jedynie przesunie datę jego śmierci, po spędzeniu reszty życia z daleka od jakichkolwiek ekscytujących emocji.

najlepsza alternatywa?
znajdzie ją wyłącznie we własnej głowie - nie w żadnej aptece, ani gabinecie lekarskim.

NWOPL

Zabijac to sie raczej niechce, wkoncu ma dziecko.
W sumie jest emocjonalny, uczuciwoy i empatyczny.
Czyli leki go tylko zamula? spowoduja zanim uczuc? itp?
Moze niech trawke zacznie palic?
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Bimi

taaa... bo większość samobójców nie ma dzieci Smile

depresja, ból psychiczny to stan ducha - można ją próbować tłumić chemią; taką czy inną, mniej lub bardziej legalną, ale moim zdaniem aby się jej pozbyć (wyleczyć) to trzeba wyeliminować jej przyczynę - a tego żadna chemia nie załatwi. przyczyna jest w myślach - w naszym nastawieniu do życia.

tak, że zanim sięgnie po prozac proponuję mu może zacząć od obejrzenia "figh club" - z tym że niekonieczni musi od razu wysadzać swoją chatę Smile

Janiekowalsk

"w zdrowym ciele, zdrowy duch" takie banalne a ile w tym prawdy...
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Overdosed: Over 25% of Kids on Prescription Drugs

A report released by Medco Health Solutions Inc., the biggest U.S. pharmacy-benefit manager, shows that over 25% of children and teens are involved with taking prescription medications – although that number may have risen over the past couple years. Based on the company’s data from 2009, 7% of U.S. children are on a shocking two or more drugs.

Despite the alarming amount of children being fed prescription medication, many of these drugs were intended or tested for only adult use. Research on the drugs’ effects in kids is dismal, and consequences of giving these drugs to children without proper research could result in far more problems than the one meant to be treated. Although popping pills to alleviate pain or fix health issues shouldn’t be the answer for anyone, it is especially dangerous for younger bodies that are given doses which aren’t even tested for.

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“We know we’re making errors in dosing and safety,” says Dr. Benjamin, who is leading a new National Institutes of Health initiative to study drugs in children.

As time goes on, it seems that more pharmaceutical pills are taken on a grand scale. Not only are adults and even pets being fed prescription drugs, but now children are also becoming reliant on such medications. Many of the prescription pills are statins, ADHD pills, antipsychotics, and sleeping pills. All of which have been shown to cause considerable harm.

czytaj dalej: http://naturalsociety.com/overdosed-over-25-of-kids-on-prescription-drugs/