Top Psychiatric Medicines Prescribed in 2011 (only in U.S.)

[grandmaD]

I notice that Paxil/Seroxat is not on the list, apparantly even doctors start to realize how dangerous it is.
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I believe this is true but they won't admit it. When I wanted to get off it, I tried a new doctor and she refused to give me a script. When I asked "why" she said it was because it was "too cumbersome". Now what does that mean? So next time I asked her again and she said "it is too old fashioned". Yet, the chemist told me the new one she switched me to was older than the aropax!

Another new doctor and now my script comes with the words: "issued under the poisons act of Australia, clause 47, etc..."

[Junior]

My GP says he doesn't prescribe it much anymore. He now prefers Lexapro. One can only wonder, though, what they will move on to when people have been on Lex for 10+ years and find they can't get off it ...

Interestingly when I was having my lap-band put in, back in Nov 2011, the admitting nurse said it's an "older" one and that they don't see it much anymorel. There is obviously a reason why they aren't prescribing it - like they know how addictive it is - but there's no way they are going to admit it to us.

[Sheila]

"Cumbersome," "old-fashioned".....? Great euphemisms.

Poisons Act?! Wow!