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I am an MD, born in Russia, but did medical school here in the United States. All the same, people constantly ask about the Russian medicine, and so I was recen
by mudil 9y ago
I am an MD, born in Russia, but did medical school here in the United States. All the same, people constantly ask about the Russian medicine, and so I was recently asked if we have fibromyalgia in Russia. My answer was that I don't know about fibromyalgia. But what I know is that half of the psychotropic drugs that people are prescribed in this country we only give to political prisoners in Russia.
- pault 9y agoCan you elaborate? Why are political prisoners medicated?
- azernik 9y agoNot GP, but I can elaborate a bit. It was common Soviet practice in the post-Stalin era to, instead of explicitly arresting political dissidents, to classify them as insane and have them involuntarily committed. Looks less bad than calling it a jail. I haven't heard of this practice being continued in post-communist Russia, but I wouldn't be enormously surprised to hear that it was.
- dEnigma 9y agoHow do you know this? Has the Russian government a public list of psychotropic drugs it uses on its political prisoners?
- mudil 9y agoRight, Russian government publishes a list of psychotropic substances that are given to political prisoners. Jeez, people, it's a joke. The joke is a commentary about American proclivity to eat psychotropic meds like vitamins.
- dEnigma 9y agoI was under the impression that you seriously thought you knew which drugs the Russian government uses on its prisoners and was making a tongue-in-cheek remark in response.
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- always_good 9y agoimo one problem with your joke is that it's not clear what part of your post isn't a joke anymore. was the whole thing setting up for a punchline, or are you even from russia. ends up as kind of a bizarre post for that reason.
- maga 9y agoOn the other side, every other drug effecting brain in the slightest is a prescription drug due to being abused by addicts. Ranging from a popular nootropic Pirocetam to Tropicamide. I'm not sure what feats of ingenuity Russian drug addicts perform to get hooked on them, but I had hard time getting Tropicamide for my eyes when I was in Russia. Local ophthalmologist told me to do a ten day course of Tropicamide, but couldn't give me a prescription because I'm not a local, and the pharmacies couldn't sell me this thing without an official prescription.