Reviews for Fosinopril (Quamut)

The average rating for Fosinopril (Quamut) based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-07-06 00:00:00 Kamsiah Yaakub David Healy is a British physician who is an expert in psychopharmacology. In Let Them Eat Prozac he examines what he terms the unhealthy relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and depression. What he really means is the unhealthy effects of the greed motivated drive by the big pharmaceutical companies to market drugs for depression. These include bribing doctors to champion drugs for depression that probably don't work nearly as well as the advertising claims they do, manipulating the data of clinical trials to downplay side effects, covering up ominous side effects, and ignoring data indicating that these drugs in clinical trials often don't work even as well as placebos. The books focuses on Prozac and similar types of anti-depressants, and details how the tendency of these drugs to cause suicidality in some persons was denied and covered up. For instance, if a subject experienced such severe side effects that they had to quit taking the drug under investigation, that person would simply be dropped from the study and its statistics. Or, if a subject experienced suicidal ideation, this might be coded as "agitation." A difficult question raised by this book is to what extent it is ethical to market a drug that will harm some people seriously and help a larger number of people to some extent. Prozac and its progency were blockbuster drugs, cash cows for their makers. Little wonder that they fought all efforts to depict these drugs as dangerous to some users. Although Healy testified as an expert witness against Lilly, Prozac's maker, he is hardly a fanatic anti psychoactive drug advocate. He believes in antidepressants, and indeed prescribes them in his practice. His point is that these drugs need to be used more sparingly, and with greater awarness of their side effects. Healy sees wider implications in the behavior of the drug companies in marketing Prozac and similar antidepressants. As he says, this is not just the story of Prozac type drugs and depression -- it is also about the way drugs for ADHD, bipolar disorders, stimulants, and antipsychotics are being marketed, and for how drugs for hypertension, sexual dysfunction and other maladies will be marketed. Although Healy says it is about culture and the limits of propaganda, it would seem that his real message is that where there's money to be made, big corporations have no limits on the propaganda they are willing to disseminate. Let the buyer beware.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-09-09 00:00:00 Jae Blog This book wins hands-down for best-titled brain science book ever. Freaked out by reports that antidepressants can't outperform placebos in clinical trials, I thought I needed to learn more.