Philip,
As usual the same problem.
Please! Those who can help this site do it!
I want to thank you Philip that you have dedicated your life to this work.
Ana

I know you're busy exposing Seroquel and all of that, but I really wish you'd devote some energy to reporting on the massive generic drug scam that the FDA, Congress, and health insurance companies are propagating. For psychiatric medications, a +/- 30% bioequivalence level can lead to decompensation by the end of the month (or, for immediate-acting drugs, by the end of the day) and the various "unknown" or unreported excipients can lead to a completely different safety profile on the very same drug. While I completely concur that "me-too" drugs are a huge pharmaceutical company scam - I mean, Effexor XR at least has a linear dose-response relationship; Pristiq seems to have more of an inverted U-shaped efficacy curve - but when insurance companies or pharmacy management plans refuse to cover brand-name drugs even after an adverse reaction to the generic alternative and you're faced with the possibility of either unbearable side effects or paying $400 out-of-pocket every month, it's extremely frustrating. Especially when the "new" medications are actually less effective than the "old" ones. And I don't just mean Pristiq vs. Effexor XR when speaking of old drugs and new drugs - I mean Pristiq vs. MAOIs, Vyvanse vs. Dexedrine, Seroquel vs. Clozapine ... Anyway, if you report on that, I will donate to your fundraiser - I know you get a lot of traffic here and I feel like I am screaming about this issue but being completely unheard.

Philip Dawdy responds: this is an excellent idea. i will look into this. feel free to pass along anything published on this that you know of as well. thanks.