Imad,
I don't think it was a false fix, I think it was their only fix for a while. It will be at some time in the future regarded as a helpful drug that kept peopple going for a while.

Having said that, I have to look at the wonderful results of duodopa that are reported..... so cannot condemn it.

Whatever drug is giving us back our lives is good.
When it starts taking away our lives it becomes a lot less than good.

In the meantime all the bright ideas do not seem to translate into treatments.
They get stuck in the pipeline, languish there, and often disappear.

I like Paula's idea's about medication.
Not for profit pharmaceuticals.
If there was a will, a way appeared.
as yet the will is not there.

In the meantime even the doctors are not really that sold on l-dopa.
They are trying, a lot of them. And thinking hard too.

I don't think that l-dopa really side tracked the good doctors.
It was always fraught with difficulties from the beginning.
Until carbidopa, then they thought maybe...
then dyskinesias, then they thought again.

It is not the doctors that are the real problem,
It is the pharmaceutical industry wanting profits over cures.
It is the regulatory processes being incredibly slow.
It is the media saying that every little development is a 'cure'.
It is the incredible cost of everything from medication to mice.
It is the arcane processes of trial design.
It is the inability of science to maintain dialogue with citizens.

Overcome these and you will find better healing right across the board.

But you are right to make a noise anyway!!