What Big Pharma Doesn’t Want You to Know About Dopamine
It is amazing how technologically advanced the world is, but society still believes in an old idea, posed during the late 1950s, that depression is caused from a chemical imbalance in the brain. There is no proof that the theory behind chemical imbalance is true, up to this day.
But what is a distinct possibility is that the idea behind depression is just a way for big Pharma to push more prescription drugs onto the market. After all, a huge population in North America depends on antidepressant drugs, bringing pharmaceutical companies billions of dollars every year.
What Big Pharma Doesn't Want to Know About Dopamine and Antidepressants
• Depression is much more complex than just to be treated with chemicals that correct what is believed a deficiency of select neurotransmitters, including dopamine.
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Joanna Moncrieff.
• Although an antidepressant can increase and decrease the brain’s chemical levels, it does not prove the idea of chemical imbalance. So there is a possibility that doctors are treating patients blindly, and the theory of chemical imbalance remains a theory.
• Pharmaceutical companies are promoting the idea of imbalance in neurotransmitters as the cause of depression, even if they know better. Scientific studies show that a number of depressed people taking antidepressants aren’t seeing any results.
• It is believed that the supposed benefits of antidepressant is due to the placebo effect, and drug companies are fully aware about it. In a 2000 study involving clinical trials of antidepressants, it was revealed that 80% of the drug's effect is attributed to the placebo