Panorama The Antidepressant Story

[OurManFlint II]

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Sounds interesting. The sacklers are truly awful. The amount of wasted lives , death and addiction caused by them is almost limitless. I'm not religious, but if there is an afterlife, I hope they suffer absolutely terribly. Truly horrendous people

I'm aware of them but luckily I've avoided the higher profile TV/Podcast etc around them as Keefe is a great storyteller, so looking forward to his telling of it. Say Nothing is an amazing story.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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The program blames big pharma really, saying that people suffer it because of a chemical imbalance was the sales ploy, they said that made people believe taking these would correct that imbalance, but the chemical imbalance was just a line that's never been proved.

There isn't much money to be made in the UK once a medicine loses its patent

Once that happens you are just given the generic tablet

If you go into a chemist and ask for paracetamol it's 79 p

If you go in and ask for panadol ......which is paracetamol but in a fancy packet it's 5 quid

In America I belive that's where the gullible locals are fed the expensive ones

[Whisperer]

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Another group of pills i loved as a kid on the Northern Soul scene - drinamyl spansules or green and clears many a chemist got broken into for these little beauties.

[blue matt]

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If you go in and ask for panadol ......which is paracetamol but in a fancy packet it's 5 quid

In America I belive that's where the gullible locals are fed the expensive ones

The US has alot more of the shelf meds, go to a big supermarket and its big business, Walmarts own brand "equate" is cheap as chips, we always buy equate ibuprofen, they come in a 500 pill tub ( was about a fiver ) same with Paracetamol

Diphenhydramine ( sleeping pills ) are available of the shelf 1 years supply, under 10 quid
Melatonin Gummies ( Sleeping aid ) 120 for a few quid

[Doucas]

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Seems weird to me that we just push antidepressents as much as possible rather than making society better. It's no wonder depression rates are going up.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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Seems weird to me that we just push antidepressents as much as possible rather than making society better. It's no wonder depression rates are going up.

Anti depressants are used by wise doctors to help people with severe illness or those who havnt been helped by counselling