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Briefing on Drugs for Depression
The files of the Food and Drug Administration on Zoloft, Paxil, Prozac and others reveal these drugs have few benefits and many side effects. Click on any item for additional detail.
	Easy to be Misled Sure, many people get better, but the drug has little to do with the improvement. Relatively Toxic A wide array of side effects make them unpleasant to take and unacceptably toxic in many people. Marginal Benefits In clinical trials, the benefits can barely be distinguished from a placebo. Safety Questions in Children While some drugs are now approved for children, new safety questions have arisen.. Suicide Risk May cause suicide and other radical changes in behavior,despite the drug companies' extensive efforts to deny it. Withdrawal Symptoms Most cause withdrawal symptoms and all produce adverse effects indicating an impaired brain. What Biochemical Imbalance? No one has identified a specific biochemical imbalance in depression that these drugs might affect.
Explore the Issue in Depth
My peer-reviewed medical study shows six major antidepressant drugs are little different from placebo.    No Prescription for Happiness is a 1,500-word opinion piece written for the Boston Globe exploring how America could have fallen in love with these drugs.    Prozac Backlash is a web site about the books of Harvard psychiatrist Joseph Glenmullen     Suicide and violence associated with antidepressants is addressed carefully at a site by David Healy a world famed British expert on antidepressant drugs.