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Here are some other sites that may be useful or of interest to you.

1.  Discussion Board

Crazy Meds’ BuSpar discussion board

2.  Official US website

All that’s on buspar.com is a link to the BuSpar PI sheet at BMS’ main site.

3.  Other official websites

4.  Prescribing Information & Information for Patients

4.1  BuSpar’s Full US Prescribing Information1 (PI sheet)

4.2  PI Sheets for Other Forms

These are the additional PI sheets some meds need for other forms, usually because one form will be approved for more, fewer, or completely different conditions than the one ‘regular’ (i.e. more popular) form we use as the basis for these pages.

4.3  Non-US PIs, PILs, PMs, SPCs, CMIs, MDSes, RRs, & EPARs2

5.  Consumer/Patient Ratings/Reviews of BuSpar (buspirone hydrochloride)

A word about consumer rating & review sites. They tend to skew negative in a way that isn’t in line with the real world. Or maybe they don’t.3 While more people have negative experiences with meds than big pharma would otherwise have you believe, the drugs are rarely as bad as teh Intergoogles usually make them out to be. While most people get more motivated to do something about an event that pissed them off than an event that made them feel better, and in the Eternal September4 that helps to define the ecology of teh Intertubes, people are more than happy to extrapolate the specific to the general as loudly, passionately, frequently, and often ignorantly as possible, it turns out that consumer review sites are relatively balanced sources of information. At least the ones that don’t specialize in nothing but side effects, and have enough reviews to be statistically significant.5

6.  Other sites of interest

‹ Consumer Comments | BuSpar Index | Bibliography ›
Crazy Meds Comprehensive BuSpar pages

1 We try to get the most recent prescribing information (PI) sheet available, preferably from the drug company’s web site. If there isn’t one (web site or copy of the PI sheet) the next stop is the FDA. PI sheets are for doctors and pharmacists. Information for patients is included with PI sheets that conform to the newly-instituted and long-overdue standards for PI sheets. If it’s not there, it’s probably not worth reading.

2 See the page on how to read our drug guides for a detailed translation and explanation of these initials.

3 See this study, that uses Crazy Meds as a primary source of data. I feel so…Fox News, as this study uses my own website to contradict what I originally thought to be the case.

4 The September That Never Ended, AKA the Eternal September: Definition. Significance and historical perspective. First use.

5 Which is why you don’t sites like patientsville.com, rateadrug.com, or rateitall.com. Other sites are included only if there are enough reviews to be statistically significant, which is over 50 in my book. I don’t include Consumer Reports “best buys,” because they lump all applications together and add too much weight to cost. Sorry CR, generic divalproex sodium is not a first-line AED for bipolar disorder, migraines, and fibromyalgia, but at least you know what the real generic for Depakote is.



Date created 08 Jul 2011 - 10:56 Page Creator: Jessica Allan Last edited by:

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