Wednesday, March 09, 2005

Accutane Part Deux

In the suit against Accutane there is a claim that Accutane has been linked to suicide. The numbers are breathtakingly small and the link is tenuous. What the record doesn't show, and couldn't with any real accuracy, is the number of suicides that Accutane has prevented. Severe acne is a societal disfigurement. Accutane, for many, is the only thing that corrects it. Without treatment, I contend that many more acne sufferers would have been suicidal. Myself among them. Any study that doesn't take that into account is bogus.

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