It’s in that moment you lose your drug patent IMO
Or we could just nationalize stuff that people need, like food and medicine. Profit incentive should not be required to make things that people need to live
Not entirely sure but I believe that other companies can make the same meds and the government is now urging to place an order at one of the other companies (for big bucks, that is). The two meds are also on the WHO list of essential drugs.
This is but one way by which capitalism kills, pharma for profit.
nortrilen and remodex
Glad they’re not mine… would absolutely suck to have to do the antidepressant round robin again. Hopefully this won’t lead to any shortages.
I always wonder if anti-depressants would even be necessary in a people’s state on its way to communism.
One of the meds is also used for people with chronic pain and migraine, so at least one would be necessary.
That’s fair. I also didn’t mean to imply that anti-depressants aren’t currently without value. Even just speaking from personal experience, my family would look a lot different without them.
I partially agree.
My impression as a GP is that at least half of the anxiety I see and significant fraction of the depression would be greatly reduced without capitalism, almost all mental illness is in some way exacerbated by the stressors of capitalism. Many who currently need medication could cope with just some therapy and coaching if these stressors were removed
That said I could name a dozen of my patients off the top of my head who would find it very difficult to function normally without some medication. Admittedly some of that would be generational trauma in part contributed to by past economic stress.
If the revolution comes tomorrow we’ll be dealing with the psychic fallout of capitalism for generations and even then there will be a small number of people for whom medication is the best option.
Thanks for your professional input, I really appreciate it.
Your last paragraph is especially important. I overlooked that part, although it’s obvious in retrospect.
Not all depression is situational. Probably not even most.
I had also bought the standard line that it’s about imbalanced or incorrect brain chemistry, but I’m not sure anymore if that theory holds any water.
There are a lot of criticisms leveled against it, but I found the book Lost Connections by Johann Hari to be incredibly thought provoking. This was even before I had gone full tankie and read a bit into the links between mental health and capitalism. The tl;dr thesis of Lost Connections is that anti-depressants are cover up the symptoms for a time, but the root of the issue is a broken social structure, for which capitalism is responsible.
Sorry, forgot where I was. Capitalism is indeed the source of all woes.
