Source: Tulane University
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070426123102.htm
“Use of depot medication for patients in the identified subgroup may help reduce relapses among these patients, the study suggests. This unique group of patients is more likely to include African-Americans and persons who are less likely to be veterans, have had previous psychiatric hospitalizations, were more likely to have been arrested, use alcohol and illicit substances, and show psychotic symptoms and disorganized thinking.”
So they study who is more likely to get depot injections and then conclude it must be good for those folks. Um, if African Americans and people with psychiatric labels are both less likely to get appropriate treatment after a heart attack at a U.S. ER, does that mean they don’t need appropriate treatment for their heart attacks? Or could it be the result of prejudice as is the greater use of depot injections in African Americans and the greater incidence of misdiagnosis as schizophrenic of African Americans? I’m voting for prejudice as the cause, not correlation, but maybe I’m old fashioned in wanting scientists to use the brains G-d gave them….
