I would take anything on wikipedia with a grain of salt. It's all user contributions and they often get false info which is only removed when enough people disagree. After all wiki stands for What I Know Is - it's opinion not fact.
Most damage caused by meds in animal testing must be treated with the knowledge that it's often given in massive doses that would be near fatal if a human did it. Take saccharin for example - the animal tests that made saccharin first banned then restricted gave rats 10,000 times the normal dose. That's like 10,000 spoonfulls of saccharin to us!! Got a sweet tooth anyone?!?
Stratterra is showing signs that some people are succeptible to problems. Not a lot but enough. There will always be a group of people in any population that have side effects that are undesirable. Only getting it out there will find it. Like Viagra - they now find that some men can become blind using it - but now they figure that it's with abuse of it (taking it every day) that causes most of the cases. Same with priapism (not stopping erection). We all know that using a med wrong causes trouble but you dont' see the nightly news making that a big part of any fear-monger story do you?
.IMac38947.4678703704i think so, but they test hair products on animals. i don't know what the animal rights think. is there any one on here you know of that is big into animal rights?.IMac38947.4676273148i don't know about straterra,but adderall was proven to cause irreversible nerve fiber damage in lab rats!!(wikipedia)[QUOTE=jerbear]i don't know about straterra,but adderall was proven to cause irreversible nerve fiber damage in lab rats!!(wikipedia)[/QUOTE]
NO KIDDING??? that's scary. what about strattera? I am wondering if they tested it on animals. and if they have some long term effects. The drug is considerably new to the market, but only after 2 years they already have some serious class action law suits against them.