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   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   Rod Speed wrote   
   > John Stafford wrote   
   >> Day Brown wrote   
      
   >>> Anyhow, it'd be one thing if they had the longitudinal studies to show   
   what the long term effect of pills is   
      
   >> Medics were prescribing anti-depressants before long term studies could be   
   done.   
      
   > That happens with ALL prescriptions, there isnt any other way to do it.   
      
   > Unless its being prescribed, you have no long term studys possible.   
      
   >> The results are in now. Some anti-depressants cannot be discontinued   
   without profound negative effects,   
      
   > That is just plain wrong.   
      
   >> even if they no longer work to their original purpose.   
      
   > And that in spades.   
      
   >> OTOH, a life of smoking reefer does not appear to hurt anything except the   
   lungs.   
      
   > Wrong again. There is plenty of evidence that it can   
   > be a real problem with those with mental problems.   
      
   > True in spades of booze.   
      
   And of doing nothing too. That does see a very significant percentage suicide.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)