Things that make you go hmmmm... Like Prozac for Dogs
It's been used to treat depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, bulimia nervosa, panic disorder and even PMS in people. Yes, PMS now medically defined as PMDD or Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder.
After telling my doctor how 1 week out of every month I was so miserable that I wanted to slap everyone that came near me (including my kids), she diagnosed me with PMDD and prescribed me my happy pills, Sarafem. I took them and I was content. So content when the kids ran through the house hollering and screaming I didn't even look at em. So content, I went to work and flooded the lab with liquid nitrogen, set a 40 minute autoclave for 40 hours and almost set my coworkers' hair on fire with a Brunson burner.
Ok, maybe I was little too content.
What I didn't know at the time was that Sarafem was really a low dose Prozac, repackaged and ready to sell to a whole new market. Ironically, the patent on Prozac was getting ready to expire and Lilly was getting ready to lose a whole lot of money to generic manufacturers.
Since I needed my mind to work properly in order to keep my job, I reluctantly dumped my happy pills.
So I guess the makers of Prozac ran out of new human markets for its' anti-depressing drug. But hey, if there are no new people to push Prozac to, they can always sell it to dogs. No, really Dogs!
Anxiety ridden dogs, who get so depressed when their owners leave that they bark, cry, chew on up things or pee on the furniture, will soon have Reconcile, a reformulated and re-patented version of Prozac.
Is anybody out there really thinking about this!?
Drug dealers on the streets get years in prison for selling drugs, that there is obviously a market for. While, drug manufacturers co-conspire with the medical community to skirt around the FDA, make up new medical disorders and the drugs to go with them. But like always, money talks and everything else runs a marathon. Maybe if drug dealers paid their taxes like pharmaceutical, tobacco and alcohol companies they could get a "get outta jail free" card too.
The only thing I find crazier than the fact that this is actually legal, is the fact that there are people crazy enough to buy it.

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