Opinion: In today’s pages: Drugs, DWP, and drama
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PillGirlReport.com editor Naomi Wax explains the downside of generic drugs:
It’s a drag when you suffer from depression. And it’s really a drag when the medication you’ve been treating your depression with effectively for years suddenly leaves you feeling anxious, nauseated or even suicidal. Even more of a drag? When you realize those symptoms began when you switched from your brand-name antidepressant to its generic version. But it’s downright depressing when your doctor, pharmacist and health insurance provider insist that you’re wrong, that there is no difference between brand-name drugs and their generics, and that these side effects you’re experiencing must be in your head. You are, after all, ‘mentally ill.’
Columnist Gregory Rodriguez writes from New Hampshire on that state’s reinvention, and freelance writer L.J. Williamson isn’t enough of a Scrooge to complain about DWP’s holiday light show, but he she does complain about the lack of bike access to it.
The editorial board tells L.A. County to prepare for the possible onslaught of freed inmates, asks the ports to pass a clean truck fee, and tells striking writers and producers to stop the drama and get back to dialogue.
Readers react to the Barack Obama-Oprah Winfrey lovefest. Los Angeles’ Mitch Paradise notes: ‘Two of the most prominent, articulate and decidedly un-Southern African Americans -- the Harvard-educated Obama and the queen of all media, Winfrey -- take their road show to South Carolina and pander to the black folks there like Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) to a Minuteman convention.’