Do you know how many medications are FDA-certified to treatbipolar depression? Come on–give it a a try. Do I hear 15? 10? The SSRI’s (selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors) can boast 6 on the market: Celexa, Lexapro, Prozac, Luvox, Paxil, and… Continue Reading
We know one thing for sure that’s typical for the atypical (or second generation) antipsychotics. They’ve caught on like a house on fire. The atypicals are the top-selling class of drugs today, with revenues in 2010 of about $14.6 billion and $18.2 billion… Continue Reading
Let’s say you wanted to find a biological indication of your bipolar disorder, or your husband’s, or your child’s. You’d have good reason for looking for one. Biological markers could ,in theory, clarify the diagnosis (no more, ‘she’s just a drug… Continue Reading
I blithely wrote a post for my blogging day job on the atypical antipsychotics, cleverly (or so I thought at the time, at least) entitling it “The Atypical History of Atypical Antipsychotics,” and I covered what I considered the big… Continue Reading
Doesn’t it start to seem like the Greeks invented just about everything? Of course they invented geometry, for which some are not completely grateful, philosophy–which has provided a haven for many rudderless college students–and just imagine a wold without parchment.… Continue Reading
Sometimes it’s just hard to know what to make of statistics. For example, according to The Humor Blog, 0.3% of all accidents in Canada involve a moose and only 30% of people can flare their nostrils, and according to… Continue Reading
A friend attended a well-known residential program for bipolar disorder, and what was one of the therapeutic offerings, bless my English-major heart, but a poetry group? So I got to thinking. . . I love poetry [I didn’t have to… Continue Reading
After running a Google Search on ‘bipolar disorder’ with the date, as I often do to catch up with the latest on the topic, I came to the conclusion that all bipolar disorder (BD) research and findings have taken a… Continue Reading
“A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money.” ~ Everett Dirksen, Congressman What Senator Dirksen knew about government spending is these days being applied to drug company fines. And it seems these penalties… Continue Reading
Sometimes bipolar disorder (BD) can be a tough row to hoe. There are intermittent hospitalizations, mood instability even when you think you’re at your best, medications with side effects that don’t bear speaking about–and a wee bit of stigma, too.… Continue Reading
In all the exciting moonlighting that I do when not dedicating myself slavishly to this blog, I stumbled into a gig on a drug database site. Don’t ask. Anyway, I had just finished work on the post, “Most Abused Prescription… Continue Reading
“Stigma is one of the main reasons why people with mental health problems don’t seek treatment or take their medications. People of color, particularly African Americans, feel the stigma more keenly. In a race-conscious society, some don’t want to be… Continue Reading
