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...gushing publicity to usurp the older antidepressants, the tricyclics, and reap a fortune for their makers: worldwide sales now exceed $20 billion a year. But the honeymoon is over. Even doctors who swear by SSRIs and newer variants concede that 1-2% of patients have a severe negative reaction to these drugs. That's a small percentage. But it's a small percentage of a very large number. Intractable misery is rife, it seems: in Australia last year, 12 million prescriptions for antidepressants were dispensed through the federal government's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (up from 8.2 million...
...says Gordon Parker, a professor in the school of psychiatry at the University of New South Wales. But because the more severe form tends to run in families and involves physical symptoms such as sleep and appetite disturbance, and because its onset can't be explained as a reaction to a traumatic event such as a bereavement, it seems "there are some depressions that are quintessentially biological . . . very much chemically underpinned...
...Agony of Kashmir Readers were eager to let us know that while official reaction to the earthquake was slow and in some ways inadequate, average citizens were quick to participate in the aid and recovery efforts that united...
...song and speakers. Asim Ijaz Khwaja, assistant professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, was one of the speakers at the event. Khwaja expressed concern not only for the victims of the catastrophe but also for those who thought attending a vigil might be an ample reaction. “I object to this vigil,” he stated. “I believe it shows an acceptance of the calamity and absolution of responsibility.” Khwaja also emphasized that the fight is not over because people are not done dying and not enough...
...COMMUNITY REACTION...