At 09:20 04/03/04, you wrote:
>On 04/03/2004 09:13 roger weeks wrote:
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> > The oldies will remember Lawrence's yellow book with its graph of drug
> > popularity:
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>Oi! Who are you calling old?
>
>I have the 4th edition, 1973. I had forgotten the quote on the back cover:
>
>"Patients may recover in spite of drugs or because of them."
>J H Gaddum, 1959
>--
>Michael Leuty <[log in to unmask]>
Perhaps to misquote the Norwegians there are no bad drugs only bad doctors?
The SEs of established drugs are generally well recorded somewhere in the
literature. Bad drugs get withdrawn sooner or later.
The drugs that cause the most unexpected and slowly identified harm to
those that take them include alcohol, tobacco extracts (often enhanced by
other and unknown chemicals), cannabis, cocaine, etc etc etc.
Many people think these are as safe as sweeties and that the "warnings"
about them are akin to "sweets will spoil your appetite". The people who
sell the drugs, or this line in thinking, make the pharmaceuticals look
like angels.
Julian
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