![]() ![]() He says too that there have been concerns that SSRI drugs, particularly paroxetine, may cause dependence in some patients, and this underlines the need to avoid their unnecessary prescription. Healy notes however, that drug companies have tended to publish studies showing positive results of the SSRIs in mildly depressed patients. It adds that: “More than 50 million people with depression have been treated with Prozac since its launch.”Ī spokesman for GlaxoSmithKline, which makes Seroxat, points out that the study only looked at a “small subset of the total data available”. Positive resultsĮli Lilly, which manufactures Prozac, says that “extensive scientific and medical experience has demonstrated it is an effective antidepressant”. The drugs were, he notes, “routinely being given to people who would get better without them”. “It confirms that GPs should not be dishing these drugs out as first-line treatment for mild depression,” he told New Scientist. “Most importantly this new study shows that the people who did respond to the drugs would have responded to placebo, anyway. David Healy, a psychiatrist at Cardiff University, UK, specialising in the use of SSRI drugs, says the latest study confirms suspicions that the drugs’ effectiveness had been dramatically overstated.
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