Common PTSD Drug May Be Useless

[Monkeyman]

http://www.forbes.com/forbeslife/health/feeds/hsscout/2006/12/01/hscout536351.html

HealthDay News -A drug long used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder appears to have done patients no good and may even have done some harm.

In the first-ever randomized,placebo-controlled trail on guanfacine for the alleviation of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD),"we found that it really offered patients no benefits of any symptoms, and we looked at a lot of symptoms," said lead researcher Dr. Thomas Neylan, medical director of the PTSD treatment program at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.

"We looked at whether people were feeling less anxious, whether they were sleeping better, whether they startled less, whether they were having fewer intrusive memories," said Neylan, who is also and associate professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. "But in anything that we looked at,we found there was no benefit for the drug over placebo."

[acmejack]

1. Tenex

[Monkeyman]

2. Same

[nradisic]

3. Send them ganja

Forget the meds. Get them baked. They ould be in a better mood and much more relaxed than stressed (if that is at all possible while the poor guys and gals are in Iraq)

[Monkeyman]

4. oh no you found my bung

[OhioChick]

5. Hey Monkeyman..

Your link isn't working and I wanted to read more. :(

BTW....How is your vet friend coming along? I hope he's hanging in there okay.

[bananas]

6. try these

from a google search for "guanfacine",
links to forbes and eurekalert articles
(both very good sites)

http://news.google.com/news?q=guanfacine

Common PTSD Drug May Be Useless
http://www.forbes.com/forbeslife/health/feeds/hscout/2006/12/01/hscout536351.html

Common PTSD drug is no more effective than placebo EurekAlert (press release)
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-12/uoc--cpd112806.php

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[Monkeyman]

8. You can get the story here

scrool down http://www.vawatchdog.org Randy Doctors say he has brain damage but they cannot say how bad yet. I pm you when I know more

[OhioChick]

9. Thanks to you

and the other posters for the links. I'll save them and read them over tomorrow. I'm still praying for your friend.

[Monkeyman]

10. Thanks he is one of the good ones

[BrotherBuzz]

7. Link doesn't work for me but what's the word on Propranolol

Did you catch the 60 minutes segment on Propranolol last week? Here's a link to the transcript:http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/22/60minutes/main2205629.shtml

Sounds promising as hell, but a whole bunch of moral/ethics issues associated with it spearheaded by the President’s Council on Bioethics (surprise). Despite them, the U.S. military has taken note: Pitman recently heard from the Army that he will be receiving funding starting next summer to try the same propranolol experiment done with Magil and O'Donnell-Jasmin o treat American soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq.