Testimony Concerning The FDA Approval of Psychamine
Three years before the Washington hearings, PsychamineTM was used on an experimental basis in an urban area in the Northeast. Newsweek reported on the results.
Susan A. has spent most of her adult life fighting
After ten years of testing, psychamine is so far
with people—her parents, her neighbors, her co-
completely without side effects, and has never
produced an overdose. Brain receptors can
absorb only so much of the chemical, and the
depression and bulimia, abused drugs and
rest is excreted harmlessly away. A wide range
alcohol, and twice tried to kill herself. She once
of people, from the suicidal to the mildly
sought relief in an antidepressant called doxepin,
depressed, are receiving the drug, but critics say
but she didn’t like the way it made her feel.
simply too early to know if Psychamine is the answer for all of them. Some experts fear it is
Two years ago her therapist, Dr. Michael
being passed out too freely, much as Valium was
Borden, suggested she take part in testing the
in the 1970’s. Yet even skeptics agree that
new drug called Psychamine. She did. Within a
Psychamine is casting new light on the nature of
month, Susan had given up psychotherapy in
mental illness and expanding the potential of
favor of school and a full-time job. She had also
given up tranquilizers and street drugs. “I feel 1,000%,” she said in a written note. “I actually
like Mom & Dad now, I’m well liked at work, I don’t ruminate on the negatives, I don’t have any
In the light of Psychamine’s many virtues—its
murderous rages, my marriage is five times
lack of a real “high,” its non-toxicity, the
convenience with which doctors and patients can use it—the excitement it generates is not hard to
fathom. But there are good reasons for handling
Nearly everyone has something good to say
Psychamine with care. All drugs have the
about the new treatment. It looks like a “wonder
potential for adverse reactions, and none works
drug.” The drug has had such good press that
for everyone who takes it. Psychamine is no
even healthy people have started asking for it.
exception. And because it’s so new, some
“Our phone rings off the hook every time
therapists argue that it shouldn’t be the treatment
someone does a story about Psychamine,” says
Dr. David Stein. “People want to try it. If you tell them they’re not depressed they say, ‘Sure I
One concern is that therapists, not to mention
family doctors, might give the drug to people without fully diagnosing their problems. A full
Though it was intended only as a treatment for
work-up might show that depression stems from
some hidden illness—cancer, hypothyroidism,
Psychamine to treat anxiety, addictions, bulimia
AIDS—or from a job or marriage problem that
no drug can possibly solve. Because Psychamine is perceived as safe, the temptation would be to
prescribe first and ask questions later.
Hearings, Subcommittee on Health, Washington, DC November 2011
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