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...There?s also a movie from this year, Law Chi-leung?s ?Inner Senses,? with Leslie Cheung as a psychiatrist gradually unhinged by a patient who ... sees ghosts. There?s a smooth creepiness at work here, and it?s always a treat to see Leslie go mad on screen, but the picture?s function in this series is mainly to provide a comparison between the relatively reserved, calculated product of today and the magnificently unsettling movie spew of colonial days...
...sign of the drug. Dexadrin (speed) and adderall (various amphetamines) are freely available, but the dealers have not even heard to Provigil. However, this lack of interest from the black market may be Provigil’s great advantage. Many people who take Provigil now do so not to treat narcolepsy (the only condition for which the drug has been approved) but for other, “off-label” conditions such as simple jet-lag. Doctors, not dealers, are currently the biggest source of this drug...
...example is Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), which according to some psychiatrists, may affect 15 million Americans. This disease, which was originally called ADD, entered the American Psychiatric Association’s list of disorders only in 1980. Within in a decade, Ritalin became the favored drug to treat this disorder, and both the disease and the drug became wildly popular. But the enormous numbers of children taking the drug suggest that the normal exuberance of childhood has been declared treatable. Studies on the use of drugs such as Ritalin have proven their amazing popularity. A 1995 study...
Thus, the border between drugs to support a lifestyle and drugs to treat a disease is constantly shifting. The mothers who demand Ritalin for their sons do so not only so their children can sit still through hours of boring class time; it’s just plain easier to deal with a pliable, narcotized child than a normal, energetic, rambunctious one. Doctors, who have been put in an increasingly difficult position in the last decade as pharmaceutical companies try to sell their drugs directly to patients, have a difficult time saying no if their colleagues are all saying...
...smattering of hospitals and clinics create drug-rep-free zones, PHRMA spokesman Jeff Trewhitt points out that doctors who shun salesmen also forgo the free samples, which are often used to treat indigent patients. Nevertheless, physicians are relying less on sales pitches and turning instead to unbiased sources like the biweekly nonprofit Medical Letter medletter.com to get the lowdown on new drugs. The crusade is also making inroads among a new generation of doctors who haven't yet experienced drug-company largesse. The American Medical Student Association is trying to ward off drug reps who try to cozy...