A Final Word on Spellbinding

From alcohol and methamphetamine to Prozac, Valium, lithium, and Zyprexa, psychoactive substances disguise their adverse mental effects for the user. A person grossly mentally impaired by stimulants, benzodiazepine tranquilizers, mood stabilizers, or neuroleptics is likely to have little idea about how dysfunctional he or she has become. When the individual does perceive a change in himself or herself, positive or negative, it is almost never attributed to the causative agent the drug. If the individual feels euphoric, it is attributed to good fortune and especially 

NDA is the manufacturer s basic documentation for the FDA in support of marketing the drug (see chapter 12). 

One more vote against Lilly and it would have been a hung jury. 

We must also doubt Lilly s methods of selecting Phase 1 subjects (see subsequent discussion). 

The brain synthesizes serotonin from tryptophan, an essential amino acid found in a variety of foods. The ingestion of large amounts of tryptophan increases the production of serotonin. 

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