Do you think /any/ psych drugs have benefit?

I think short term, sporadic usage of benzos/amphetamines have their place, but that's pretty much it.

I'm bringing this up because soon in the UK the Psychoactive Substances Bill will come in, thereby banning nootropics (among other things), which is total BS. Mondafil for example works in a similar way to amphetamines such as Ritalin... and yet it's getting banned. Phenibut works for anti-anxiety and to a lesser degree concentration... and yet it's getting banned.

I say 'short term' because...
- Long term usage of benzos (especially) & amphetamines is known to be harmful
- It doesn't fix the issue

Thoughts?

Yes I was once on a drug called Effexor and I loved it. The only reason I quit taking it was because I wasn't able to take time off work to get used to it, and the initial side effects gave me too much brain fog, made me feel very spaced out and high, and my job was very fast paced and required heavy attention to detail. Now that I am currently unemployed, I would try it again in a heartbeat if my pdoc offered, since I would have time to adjust to it.

But I've also had bad experiences with meds that were not for me. Going through it again right now with Latuda, feels like it's not helping me at all but giving me some bad side effects (mental and physiological).

"My studies in this area lead me to a very uncomfortable conclusion: Our citizens would be far better off if we removed all the psychotropic drugs from the market, as doctors are unable to handle them. It is inescapable that their availability creates more harm than good."

- Peter Gøtzsche, MD; Co-founder of the Cochrane Collaboration

http://www.madinamerica.com/2013/11/peter-gotzsche-2/

The drugs don't help or harm anyone, they just sit on a shelf in a bottle, its the doctors who decide how that's going to work out and they are doing a lousy job.

Check out the link, explains it better than I can.

-- Thu Mar 24, 2016 4:27 pm --

Auxiliary11 wrote: I'm bringing this up because soon in the UK the Psychoactive Substances Bill

Politicians make the very worst doctors, they should worry about politics instead of practicing medicine without a license.