Just when you thought the unscrupulous banking practices couldn’t get any lower, someone comes along and does what America does best….skirt personal responsibility by blaming a problem on an entity. In this case the drug companies.
Did Anti-Depressants Cause the Mortgage Crisis?
by Adam Hanft
“…There are many who argue that anti-depressants got to #1 status because Big Pharma has spent hundreds of millions to create a nation of psychological hypochondriacs using canny marketing to blur the difference between serious depressive states and merely painful, Billie Holiday-like blues.
But what exactly would turn psychotropic drugs like Prozac and Paxil and Zoloft into a subplot in the subprime mess? It’s the biochemistry. Those drugs are SSRIs—serotonin uptake inhibitors—and they spin their mood magic by elevating levels of serotonin in the brain. And serotonin is a neurotransmitter associated with behaviors that might contribute to the temptation of borrowing $501,000 on a $500,000 house…”
DISGUSTING!!
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I’ve read both Engadget and Gizmodo via Google Reader for several years now, but the duplication is just killing me. Since Google doesn’t seem to want to add any de-duping filters to the Reader product I was faced with a choice. Sorry Engadget, it wasn’t personal, but your content just didn’t seem to compare when placed back to back with the Giz
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Not the news show….but my eyes. I’m officially seeing 20/20 on my last LASIX follow-up visit. I have a slight undercorrection, but that is desirable compared to the opposite. It’s great to be able to see without my glasses. My surgery and recovery were simple, mostly pain-free and most importantly had no complications. Hooray for medical science.
I’m a huge Google Reader fan and I’m not afraid to tell people that “From your 82 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 14,816 items.” Wow, that’s a lot of news to read. Knowledge is power…quantity over quality.
I’ve just discovered the share functionality within Google Reader and I’m going to begin to share items which will show on the left column of the blog. So if you care what I care about reading, have a look.
Right now I like Gadling, which is a blog with lots of travel news. Maybe that’s because I want to go on vacation.
