Antidepressants Fail – Government Study Reveals
Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD asked:
The most frequently prescribed pharmaceutical drug is antidepressants. Did you know thirty-five million dollars of your taxes was spent to fund the largest trial of its kind on antidepressants? March 23, 2006, The Washington Post reported the results of this study. “…antidepressants fail to cure the symptoms of major depression in half of all patients, even if they received the best possible care.”
Furthermore, “…a significant number of patients continue to experience symptoms such as sadness, low energy, and hopelessness after intensive treatment, even as about an equal number report an end to such problems–a result that quickly lent itself to interpretations that the glass was neither half empty or half full.”
Government statistics reveal, depression affects fifteen million Americans each year. One hundred eighty-nine million prescriptions of antidepressants were written last year, and the disease costs eighty-three billion dollars annually because of treatment costs, lost productivity, absenteeism and suicide.
This information begs the question–If antidepressants yield these dismal results, why then do physicians, psychiatrists, pharmaceutical companies continue to tout the virtues of antidepressants as a miracle in the form of a pill?
The answer is simple. Antidepressants are easy to produce and can be sold at high prices. Antidepressants are a cash cow and people who have come to believe that a ‘quick fix’ is possible vis-
The most frequently prescribed pharmaceutical drug is antidepressants. Did you know thirty-five million dollars of your taxes was spent to fund the largest trial of its kind on antidepressants? March 23, 2006, The Washington Post reported the results of this study. “…antidepressants fail to cure the symptoms of major depression in half of all patients, even if they received the best possible care.”
Furthermore, “…a significant number of patients continue to experience symptoms such as sadness, low energy, and hopelessness after intensive treatment, even as about an equal number report an end to such problems–a result that quickly lent itself to interpretations that the glass was neither half empty or half full.”
Government statistics reveal, depression affects fifteen million Americans each year. One hundred eighty-nine million prescriptions of antidepressants were written last year, and the disease costs eighty-three billion dollars annually because of treatment costs, lost productivity, absenteeism and suicide.
This information begs the question–If antidepressants yield these dismal results, why then do physicians, psychiatrists, pharmaceutical companies continue to tout the virtues of antidepressants as a miracle in the form of a pill?
The answer is simple. Antidepressants are easy to produce and can be sold at high prices. Antidepressants are a cash cow and people who have come to believe that a ‘quick fix’ is possible vis-
Tags: Hypnotic State, Media Blitz
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