RE: The Marketization of Depression: The Prescribing of SSRI Antidepressants to Women

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

Yes I have seen this before but was very interested in seeing it again.

there is a long history of creating disease to create profits.

" The Growth of Biological Psychiatry

According to Metzl, a professor of Psychiatry and Women's Studies,

Miltown

(meprobamate), a muscle relaxant with sedative properties, was introduced in

the 1950s as the

first " wonder drug " to be aimed directly at women. It introduced the notion

of chemical (drug)

treatment for outpatient " neurosis " and paralleled the shift that was taking

place in treatment

from psychoanalysis to biological psychiatry (from " blaming the mother to

blaming the brain " ).

Miltown became wildly popular; by 1956 it and other tranquillisers were

taken by one in twenty

Americans.53

In a review of leading newsmagazines and women's magazines from the 1950s

and 1960s,

articles and advice columns explained how, thanks to psychopharmacology,

women's " emotional

problems could be cured simply by visiting a doctor, obtaining a

prescription and taking a pill. "

These problems ranged from " a wife's frigidity, to a bride's uncertainty, to

a wife's infertility. " 54

Books like Recognizing the Depressed Patient (1961), which encouraged the

diagnosis of

depression in the general population by the general practitioner, rather

than primarily by

psychiatrists in hospitals, were also promoted by pharmaceutical companies,

thereby

significantly expanding the base of potential prescribers. The

pharmaceutical company, Merck,

bought 50,000 copies and distributed the book world-wide.55

The arrival of " biological (or chemically based) psychiatry " and the

targeting of women helped

set the stage for the marketing of a succession of psychotropic drugs,

including benzodiazepines

and later, the SSRIs. The marketing and promotion of SSRIs has intensified

with the increase in

the economic power and deregulation of the drug industry. "

The Marketization of Depression: The Prescribing

of SSRI Antidepressants to Women

http://www.whp-apsf.ca/pdf/SSRIs.pdf

I don't recall whether this report has been mentioned here before. It was

done in 2005 by researcher Janet Curie and purports (according to Dr.

) to detail " how the pharmaceutical industry literally created a

market for SSRI drugs, while at the same time covering up the fact that they

are generally ineffective, costly, and fraught with dangerous side effects

and addictive properties. "

jonnygee@...

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

Yes I have seen this before but was very interested in seeing it again.

there is a long history of creating disease to create profits.

" The Growth of Biological Psychiatry

According to Metzl, a professor of Psychiatry and Women's Studies,

Miltown

(meprobamate), a muscle relaxant with sedative properties, was introduced in

the 1950s as the

first " wonder drug " to be aimed directly at women. It introduced the notion

of chemical (drug)

treatment for outpatient " neurosis " and paralleled the shift that was taking

place in treatment

from psychoanalysis to biological psychiatry (from " blaming the mother to

blaming the brain " ).

Miltown became wildly popular; by 1956 it and other tranquillisers were

taken by one in twenty

Americans.53

In a review of leading newsmagazines and women's magazines from the 1950s

and 1960s,

articles and advice columns explained how, thanks to psychopharmacology,

women's " emotional

problems could be cured simply by visiting a doctor, obtaining a

prescription and taking a pill. "

These problems ranged from " a wife's frigidity, to a bride's uncertainty, to

a wife's infertility. " 54

Books like Recognizing the Depressed Patient (1961), which encouraged the

diagnosis of

depression in the general population by the general practitioner, rather

than primarily by

psychiatrists in hospitals, were also promoted by pharmaceutical companies,

thereby

significantly expanding the base of potential prescribers. The

pharmaceutical company, Merck,

bought 50,000 copies and distributed the book world-wide.55

The arrival of " biological (or chemically based) psychiatry " and the

targeting of women helped

set the stage for the marketing of a succession of psychotropic drugs,

including benzodiazepines

and later, the SSRIs. The marketing and promotion of SSRIs has intensified

with the increase in

the economic power and deregulation of the drug industry. "

The Marketization of Depression: The Prescribing

of SSRI Antidepressants to Women

http://www.whp-apsf.ca/pdf/SSRIs.pdf

I don't recall whether this report has been mentioned here before. It was

done in 2005 by researcher Janet Curie and purports (according to Dr.

) to detail " how the pharmaceutical industry literally created a

market for SSRI drugs, while at the same time covering up the fact that they

are generally ineffective, costly, and fraught with dangerous side effects

and addictive properties. "

jonnygee@...

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

Yes I have seen this before but was very interested in seeing it again.

there is a long history of creating disease to create profits.

" The Growth of Biological Psychiatry

According to Metzl, a professor of Psychiatry and Women's Studies,

Miltown

(meprobamate), a muscle relaxant with sedative properties, was introduced in

the 1950s as the

first " wonder drug " to be aimed directly at women. It introduced the notion

of chemical (drug)

treatment for outpatient " neurosis " and paralleled the shift that was taking

place in treatment

from psychoanalysis to biological psychiatry (from " blaming the mother to

blaming the brain " ).

Miltown became wildly popular; by 1956 it and other tranquillisers were

taken by one in twenty

Americans.53

In a review of leading newsmagazines and women's magazines from the 1950s

and 1960s,

articles and advice columns explained how, thanks to psychopharmacology,

women's " emotional

problems could be cured simply by visiting a doctor, obtaining a

prescription and taking a pill. "

These problems ranged from " a wife's frigidity, to a bride's uncertainty, to

a wife's infertility. " 54

Books like Recognizing the Depressed Patient (1961), which encouraged the

diagnosis of

depression in the general population by the general practitioner, rather

than primarily by

psychiatrists in hospitals, were also promoted by pharmaceutical companies,

thereby

significantly expanding the base of potential prescribers. The

pharmaceutical company, Merck,

bought 50,000 copies and distributed the book world-wide.55

The arrival of " biological (or chemically based) psychiatry " and the

targeting of women helped

set the stage for the marketing of a succession of psychotropic drugs,

including benzodiazepines

and later, the SSRIs. The marketing and promotion of SSRIs has intensified

with the increase in

the economic power and deregulation of the drug industry. "

The Marketization of Depression: The Prescribing

of SSRI Antidepressants to Women

http://www.whp-apsf.ca/pdf/SSRIs.pdf

I don't recall whether this report has been mentioned here before. It was

done in 2005 by researcher Janet Curie and purports (according to Dr.

) to detail " how the pharmaceutical industry literally created a

market for SSRI drugs, while at the same time covering up the fact that they

are generally ineffective, costly, and fraught with dangerous side effects

and addictive properties. "

jonnygee@...

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

Yes I have seen this before but was very interested in seeing it again.

there is a long history of creating disease to create profits.

" The Growth of Biological Psychiatry

According to Metzl, a professor of Psychiatry and Women's Studies,

Miltown

(meprobamate), a muscle relaxant with sedative properties, was introduced in

the 1950s as the

first " wonder drug " to be aimed directly at women. It introduced the notion

of chemical (drug)

treatment for outpatient " neurosis " and paralleled the shift that was taking

place in treatment

from psychoanalysis to biological psychiatry (from " blaming the mother to

blaming the brain " ).

Miltown became wildly popular; by 1956 it and other tranquillisers were

taken by one in twenty

Americans.53

In a review of leading newsmagazines and women's magazines from the 1950s

and 1960s,

articles and advice columns explained how, thanks to psychopharmacology,

women's " emotional

problems could be cured simply by visiting a doctor, obtaining a

prescription and taking a pill. "

These problems ranged from " a wife's frigidity, to a bride's uncertainty, to

a wife's infertility. " 54

Books like Recognizing the Depressed Patient (1961), which encouraged the

diagnosis of

depression in the general population by the general practitioner, rather

than primarily by

psychiatrists in hospitals, were also promoted by pharmaceutical companies,

thereby

significantly expanding the base of potential prescribers. The

pharmaceutical company, Merck,

bought 50,000 copies and distributed the book world-wide.55

The arrival of " biological (or chemically based) psychiatry " and the

targeting of women helped

set the stage for the marketing of a succession of psychotropic drugs,

including benzodiazepines

and later, the SSRIs. The marketing and promotion of SSRIs has intensified

with the increase in

the economic power and deregulation of the drug industry. "

The Marketization of Depression: The Prescribing

of SSRI Antidepressants to Women

http://www.whp-apsf.ca/pdf/SSRIs.pdf

I don't recall whether this report has been mentioned here before. It was

done in 2005 by researcher Janet Curie and purports (according to Dr.

) to detail " how the pharmaceutical industry literally created a

market for SSRI drugs, while at the same time covering up the fact that they

are generally ineffective, costly, and fraught with dangerous side effects

and addictive properties. "

jonnygee@...

[Guest guest]

Yes, you mention Miltown et al. It reminds me of the Rolling Stones' cynical

in-your-face song that appeared on their 1966 album, Aftermath:

Mother's Little Helper

The Rolling Stones

(Jagger/s) 1966

What a drag it is getting old

" Kids are different today, "

I hear every mother say

Mother needs something today to calm her down

And though she's not really ill

There's a little yellow pill

She goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper

And it helps her on her way, gets her through her busy day

" Things are different today, "

I hear every mother say

Cooking fresh food for a husband's just a drag

So she buys an instant cake and she burns her frozen steak

And goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper

And two help her on her way; get her through her busy day

Doctor please, some more of these

Outside the door, she took four more

What a drag it is getting old

" Men just aren't the same today "

I hear every mother say

They just don't appreciate that you get tired

They're so hard to satisfy; you can tranquilize your mind

So go running for the shelter of a mother's little helper

And four help you through the night; help to minimize your plight

Doctor please, some more of these

Outside the door, she took four more

What a drag it is getting old

" Life's just much too hard today, "

I hear every mother say

The pursuit of happiness just seems a bore

And if you take more of those, you will get an overdose

No more running for the shelter of a mother's little helper

They just helped you on your way, through your busy dying day

Re: The Marketization of Depression: The

Prescribing of SSRI Antidepressants to Women

Hi ,

Yes I have seen this before but was very interested in seeing it again.

there is a long history of creating disease to create profits.

" The Growth of Biological Psychiatry

According to Metzl, a professor of Psychiatry and Women's Studies,

Miltown

(meprobamate), a muscle relaxant with sedative properties, was introduced in

the 1950s as the

first " wonder drug " to be aimed directly at women. It introduced the notion

of chemical (drug)

treatment for outpatient " neurosis " and paralleled the shift that was taking

place in treatment

from psychoanalysis to biological psychiatry (from " blaming the mother to

blaming the brain " ).

Miltown became wildly popular; by 1956 it and other tranquillisers were

taken by one in twenty

Americans.53

In a review of leading newsmagazines and women's magazines from the 1950s

and 1960s,

articles and advice columns explained how, thanks to psychopharmacology,

women's " emotional

problems could be cured simply by visiting a doctor, obtaining a

prescription and taking a pill. "

These problems ranged from " a wife's frigidity, to a bride's uncertainty, to

a wife's infertility. " 54

Books like Recognizing the Depressed Patient (1961), which encouraged the

diagnosis of

depression in the general population by the general practitioner, rather

than primarily by

psychiatrists in hospitals, were also promoted by pharmaceutical companies,

thereby

significantly expanding the base of potential prescribers. The

pharmaceutical company, Merck,

bought 50,000 copies and distributed the book world-wide.55

The arrival of " biological (or chemically based) psychiatry " and the

targeting of women helped

set the stage for the marketing of a succession of psychotropic drugs,

including benzodiazepines

and later, the SSRIs. The marketing and promotion of SSRIs has intensified

with the increase in

the economic power and deregulation of the drug industry. "

The Marketization of Depression: The Prescribing

of SSRI Antidepressants to Women

http://www.whp- <http://www.whp-apsf.ca/pdf/SSRIs.pdf> apsf.ca/pdf/SSRIs.pdf

I don't recall whether this report has been mentioned here before. It was

done in 2005 by researcher Janet Curie and purports (according to Dr.

) to detail " how the pharmaceutical industry literally created a

market for SSRI drugs, while at the same time covering up the fact that they

are generally ineffective, costly, and fraught with dangerous side effects

and addictive properties. "

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[Guest guest]

Yes, you mention Miltown et al. It reminds me of the Rolling Stones' cynical

in-your-face song that appeared on their 1966 album, Aftermath:

Mother's Little Helper

The Rolling Stones

(Jagger/s) 1966

What a drag it is getting old

" Kids are different today, "

I hear every mother say

Mother needs something today to calm her down

And though she's not really ill

There's a little yellow pill

She goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper

And it helps her on her way, gets her through her busy day

" Things are different today, "

I hear every mother say

Cooking fresh food for a husband's just a drag

So she buys an instant cake and she burns her frozen steak

And goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper

And two help her on her way; get her through her busy day

Doctor please, some more of these

Outside the door, she took four more

What a drag it is getting old

" Men just aren't the same today "

I hear every mother say

They just don't appreciate that you get tired

They're so hard to satisfy; you can tranquilize your mind

So go running for the shelter of a mother's little helper

And four help you through the night; help to minimize your plight

Doctor please, some more of these

Outside the door, she took four more

What a drag it is getting old

" Life's just much too hard today, "

I hear every mother say

The pursuit of happiness just seems a bore

And if you take more of those, you will get an overdose

No more running for the shelter of a mother's little helper

They just helped you on your way, through your busy dying day

Re: The Marketization of Depression: The

Prescribing of SSRI Antidepressants to Women

Hi ,

Yes I have seen this before but was very interested in seeing it again.

there is a long history of creating disease to create profits.

" The Growth of Biological Psychiatry

According to Metzl, a professor of Psychiatry and Women's Studies,

Miltown

(meprobamate), a muscle relaxant with sedative properties, was introduced in

the 1950s as the

first " wonder drug " to be aimed directly at women. It introduced the notion

of chemical (drug)

treatment for outpatient " neurosis " and paralleled the shift that was taking

place in treatment

from psychoanalysis to biological psychiatry (from " blaming the mother to

blaming the brain " ).

Miltown became wildly popular; by 1956 it and other tranquillisers were

taken by one in twenty

Americans.53

In a review of leading newsmagazines and women's magazines from the 1950s

and 1960s,

articles and advice columns explained how, thanks to psychopharmacology,

women's " emotional

problems could be cured simply by visiting a doctor, obtaining a

prescription and taking a pill. "

These problems ranged from " a wife's frigidity, to a bride's uncertainty, to

a wife's infertility. " 54

Books like Recognizing the Depressed Patient (1961), which encouraged the

diagnosis of

depression in the general population by the general practitioner, rather

than primarily by

psychiatrists in hospitals, were also promoted by pharmaceutical companies,

thereby

significantly expanding the base of potential prescribers. The

pharmaceutical company, Merck,

bought 50,000 copies and distributed the book world-wide.55

The arrival of " biological (or chemically based) psychiatry " and the

targeting of women helped

set the stage for the marketing of a succession of psychotropic drugs,

including benzodiazepines

and later, the SSRIs. The marketing and promotion of SSRIs has intensified

with the increase in

the economic power and deregulation of the drug industry. "

The Marketization of Depression: The Prescribing

of SSRI Antidepressants to Women

http://www.whp- <http://www.whp-apsf.ca/pdf/SSRIs.pdf> apsf.ca/pdf/SSRIs.pdf

I don't recall whether this report has been mentioned here before. It was

done in 2005 by researcher Janet Curie and purports (according to Dr.

) to detail " how the pharmaceutical industry literally created a

market for SSRI drugs, while at the same time covering up the fact that they

are generally ineffective, costly, and fraught with dangerous side effects

and addictive properties. "

jonnygeepacbell (DOT) <mailto:jonnygee%40pacbell.net> net

..

<http://geo./serv?s=97359714/grpId=4072340/grpspId=1705118787/msgId

=30920/stime=1187302621/nc1=4718984/nc2=4507179/nc3=4725794>

[Guest guest]

Yes, you mention Miltown et al. It reminds me of the Rolling Stones' cynical

in-your-face song that appeared on their 1966 album, Aftermath:

Mother's Little Helper

The Rolling Stones

(Jagger/s) 1966

What a drag it is getting old

" Kids are different today, "

I hear every mother say

Mother needs something today to calm her down

And though she's not really ill

There's a little yellow pill

She goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper

And it helps her on her way, gets her through her busy day

" Things are different today, "

I hear every mother say

Cooking fresh food for a husband's just a drag

So she buys an instant cake and she burns her frozen steak

And goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper

And two help her on her way; get her through her busy day

Doctor please, some more of these

Outside the door, she took four more

What a drag it is getting old

" Men just aren't the same today "

I hear every mother say

They just don't appreciate that you get tired

They're so hard to satisfy; you can tranquilize your mind

So go running for the shelter of a mother's little helper

And four help you through the night; help to minimize your plight

Doctor please, some more of these

Outside the door, she took four more

What a drag it is getting old

" Life's just much too hard today, "

I hear every mother say

The pursuit of happiness just seems a bore

And if you take more of those, you will get an overdose

No more running for the shelter of a mother's little helper

They just helped you on your way, through your busy dying day

Re: The Marketization of Depression: The

Prescribing of SSRI Antidepressants to Women

Hi ,

Yes I have seen this before but was very interested in seeing it again.

there is a long history of creating disease to create profits.

" The Growth of Biological Psychiatry

According to Metzl, a professor of Psychiatry and Women's Studies,

Miltown

(meprobamate), a muscle relaxant with sedative properties, was introduced in

the 1950s as the

first " wonder drug " to be aimed directly at women. It introduced the notion

of chemical (drug)

treatment for outpatient " neurosis " and paralleled the shift that was taking

place in treatment

from psychoanalysis to biological psychiatry (from " blaming the mother to

blaming the brain " ).

Miltown became wildly popular; by 1956 it and other tranquillisers were

taken by one in twenty

Americans.53

In a review of leading newsmagazines and women's magazines from the 1950s

and 1960s,

articles and advice columns explained how, thanks to psychopharmacology,

women's " emotional

problems could be cured simply by visiting a doctor, obtaining a

prescription and taking a pill. "

These problems ranged from " a wife's frigidity, to a bride's uncertainty, to

a wife's infertility. " 54

Books like Recognizing the Depressed Patient (1961), which encouraged the

diagnosis of

depression in the general population by the general practitioner, rather

than primarily by

psychiatrists in hospitals, were also promoted by pharmaceutical companies,

thereby

significantly expanding the base of potential prescribers. The

pharmaceutical company, Merck,

bought 50,000 copies and distributed the book world-wide.55

The arrival of " biological (or chemically based) psychiatry " and the

targeting of women helped

set the stage for the marketing of a succession of psychotropic drugs,

including benzodiazepines

and later, the SSRIs. The marketing and promotion of SSRIs has intensified

with the increase in

the economic power and deregulation of the drug industry. "

The Marketization of Depression: The Prescribing

of SSRI Antidepressants to Women

http://www.whp- <http://www.whp-apsf.ca/pdf/SSRIs.pdf> apsf.ca/pdf/SSRIs.pdf

I don't recall whether this report has been mentioned here before. It was

done in 2005 by researcher Janet Curie and purports (according to Dr.

) to detail " how the pharmaceutical industry literally created a

market for SSRI drugs, while at the same time covering up the fact that they

are generally ineffective, costly, and fraught with dangerous side effects

and addictive properties. "

jonnygeepacbell (DOT) <mailto:jonnygee%40pacbell.net> net

..

<http://geo./serv?s=97359714/grpId=4072340/grpspId=1705118787/msgId

=30920/stime=1187302621/nc1=4718984/nc2=4507179/nc3=4725794>

[Guest guest]

Yes, you mention Miltown et al. It reminds me of the Rolling Stones' cynical

in-your-face song that appeared on their 1966 album, Aftermath:

Mother's Little Helper

The Rolling Stones

(Jagger/s) 1966

What a drag it is getting old

" Kids are different today, "

I hear every mother say

Mother needs something today to calm her down

And though she's not really ill

There's a little yellow pill

She goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper

And it helps her on her way, gets her through her busy day

" Things are different today, "

I hear every mother say

Cooking fresh food for a husband's just a drag

So she buys an instant cake and she burns her frozen steak

And goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper

And two help her on her way; get her through her busy day

Doctor please, some more of these

Outside the door, she took four more

What a drag it is getting old

" Men just aren't the same today "

I hear every mother say

They just don't appreciate that you get tired

They're so hard to satisfy; you can tranquilize your mind

So go running for the shelter of a mother's little helper

And four help you through the night; help to minimize your plight

Doctor please, some more of these

Outside the door, she took four more

What a drag it is getting old

" Life's just much too hard today, "

I hear every mother say

The pursuit of happiness just seems a bore

And if you take more of those, you will get an overdose

No more running for the shelter of a mother's little helper

They just helped you on your way, through your busy dying day

Re: The Marketization of Depression: The

Prescribing of SSRI Antidepressants to Women

Hi ,

Yes I have seen this before but was very interested in seeing it again.

there is a long history of creating disease to create profits.

" The Growth of Biological Psychiatry

According to Metzl, a professor of Psychiatry and Women's Studies,

Miltown

(meprobamate), a muscle relaxant with sedative properties, was introduced in

the 1950s as the

first " wonder drug " to be aimed directly at women. It introduced the notion

of chemical (drug)

treatment for outpatient " neurosis " and paralleled the shift that was taking

place in treatment

from psychoanalysis to biological psychiatry (from " blaming the mother to

blaming the brain " ).

Miltown became wildly popular; by 1956 it and other tranquillisers were

taken by one in twenty

Americans.53

In a review of leading newsmagazines and women's magazines from the 1950s

and 1960s,

articles and advice columns explained how, thanks to psychopharmacology,

women's " emotional

problems could be cured simply by visiting a doctor, obtaining a

prescription and taking a pill. "

These problems ranged from " a wife's frigidity, to a bride's uncertainty, to

a wife's infertility. " 54

Books like Recognizing the Depressed Patient (1961), which encouraged the

diagnosis of

depression in the general population by the general practitioner, rather

than primarily by

psychiatrists in hospitals, were also promoted by pharmaceutical companies,

thereby

significantly expanding the base of potential prescribers. The

pharmaceutical company, Merck,

bought 50,000 copies and distributed the book world-wide.55

The arrival of " biological (or chemically based) psychiatry " and the

targeting of women helped

set the stage for the marketing of a succession of psychotropic drugs,

including benzodiazepines

and later, the SSRIs. The marketing and promotion of SSRIs has intensified

with the increase in

the economic power and deregulation of the drug industry. "

The Marketization of Depression: The Prescribing

of SSRI Antidepressants to Women

http://www.whp- <http://www.whp-apsf.ca/pdf/SSRIs.pdf> apsf.ca/pdf/SSRIs.pdf

I don't recall whether this report has been mentioned here before. It was

done in 2005 by researcher Janet Curie and purports (according to Dr.

) to detail " how the pharmaceutical industry literally created a

market for SSRI drugs, while at the same time covering up the fact that they

are generally ineffective, costly, and fraught with dangerous side effects

and addictive properties. "

jonnygeepacbell (DOT) <mailto:jonnygee%40pacbell.net> net

..

<http://geo./serv?s=97359714/grpId=4072340/grpspId=1705118787/msgId

=30920/stime=1187302621/nc1=4718984/nc2=4507179/nc3=4725794>