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   John Jones to All   
   Re: Reasons for the rise in Anti-Depress   
   05 Aug 09 22:14:17   
   
   XPost: alt.philosophy, sci.econ, alt.psychology   
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   From: jonescardiff@btinternet.com   
      
   Giga  "Immortalist"  wrote in message   
   > news:3156dd69-a328-4502-afaf-90345383d225@y4g2000prf.googlegroups.com...   
   >> (1) - Newer drugs, more social acceptance: It may be more socially   
   >> acceptable to be diagnosed with and treated for depression. The   
   >> availability of new drugs may also have been a factor.   
   >>   
   >> (2) - Cost may be deterrent to talk therapy: Therapy is as effective   
   >> as, if not more effective than, drug use alone,... 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.   
   >   
   > I was wonderring recently if the rise in recreational canabis use could to   
   > some extent explain this. Like the chemicals are permenent damaged by   
   > shaking then up like crazy with TCH.   
   >   
   >   
      
   Yes, cannabis is known to cure people from antidepressant use.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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