The Name Game, Latuda
Latuda, Latuda, bo-buda
Banana-fana-fo-fuda
Fee-fi-mo-muda
Latuda
One might as well be talking gibberish, since Latuda does not make any sense. Unless you consider that it makes a lot of cents.
We recently saw a commercial on TV for Latuda (generic name lurasidone HCL), lauding its use for bipolar depression.
It’s another psychiatric drug, originally promoted for the symptoms called schizophrenia, and lately for bipolar depression. It’s similar to risperidone or olanzapine, an atypical anti-psychotic drug that alters the levels of serotonin and dopamine in the brain. The chemical class is called “benzisothiazol derivative.”
It was developed by Sumitomo Dainippan Pharma and marketed in the U.S. by Sunovian Pharmaceuticals.
The Latuda manufacturer’s website has this to say about it, “It’s not known exactly how Latuda works, and the precise way antipsychotics work is also unknown.”
Manufacturer warnings include, “Increased mortality rate in elderly patients … and suicidal thoughts and behaviors.”
867 other drugs are known to interact with it.
The side effects are similar to all other antipsychotics, and could be increased in intensity if the user drinks grapefruit juice with it.
An average dose is estimated to cost about $5,000 per year.
It was not tested in published clinical trials lasting longer than 6 weeks; and one of its trials failed to show any improvement at all.
At this point, it is definitely looking more like banana-fana than anything else. One might as well eat some bananas instead, it would be a whole lot healthier and likely just as effective.
We’re making fun of the psych drug, not the symptoms. People certainly can have mental trauma for which they might need help. We’re just saying, the psych drug is not help; it is, rather, harm.
Psychiatry is a harmful pseudo-science; they know it, they admit it. Don’t swallow it.
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