Drug companies do not do extensive work on their new drugs like doctors and many patients think. Most of the data on drugs comes out in bits and pieces for years later.
They have to show that a therapeutic goal is reached, and that toxicity is minimal. (how the statins got past that is a wonder in itself!) Big Pharma does lie and does massage data.
But for example in the case of SSRIs the research now shows that the serotonin link to depression does not really exist, it was only a "theory".
And that SSRIs don't really work!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mar..._b_550098.html
All the while gabapentin was being prescribed to people, the actual mechanism of how it worked, was never elucidated. The main theory is that gabapentin affects calcium signaling in the spinal cord. But no one knows for sure. It is all just one big experiment.
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