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Peter:"For millions of patients are struggling with deppresion putting their faith in medicacine to feel better this won't come as happy news. Today British reserchers said several popular antidepressants are essentially no better than a placebo. Our health reporter Mareen taylor here will explain. Mareen tell us more about this study." ~# H/ X* h3 {# I
P6 F8 H0 Y! c, H3 F0 S# e5 F: DMareen:"Peter, this was a review involes the clinical trails on four antidepressants and their names will be familiar to many canadians. They are Prozac, Effexor, Paxil and Serzone.Now Serzone was withdrawn from the market because of liver toxicity a few years ago but the other three remain wildly popular. Last year Canadian Doctors wrote twenty million perscriptions for these and similar medicacines known as SSRI'S to the tune of about $1 billion. But you know Peter when reserchers actually analyzed all of this data they found that these medicacines were no better than a dummy pill or placebo in people with mild and moderate deppresion. It wasn't that people didn't feel better on the drugs because they said they did. It's just that people taking the dummy pills feel better too. The only group that seems drive some benefit were people with severe depression and even then the author of the study say that benefit was questionable. Peter"
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2 e2 M2 o2 J9 Z3 i. d/ I6 U2 vPeter:"Alright. Want to know why these drugs were approved if they are not effictive?". A! G5 z. _8 q
: ~$ J' p2 p7 [; L) x5 E+ e! eMareen:"You know that's a good question because we don't always get the reasoning from the FDA or Health Canada when they approve or don't approve a drug but here's the reaction to this study from one drug industry representative in the UK."
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4 h9 b1 G; [. a7 w0 ?; |2 ZRichard Tiner:"These medicines are being licensed by a number of registry authority around the world including here in the United Kingdom and therefore the registry authorities looking at all the evidences have determined that they do work better than placebo."
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0 Z( R+ c0 P5 f7 l% vMareen:"Now what should people taking these medicacines do? The first thing they shouldn't do is stop taking them before talking to their doctor because they can experience side effect if they do. But this does point to the fact that these medicacines don't work in everyone and perhaps it's time to take a less invasive approach to treat depression like talk therapy before turning to medicacines. Peter?"; Y! ?- d( P* W+ L6 b5 D+ y' J- R' m) p
# I4 r3 s0 `! w7 P# L& IPeter:"Alright Mareen, thanks very much. Health reporter Mareen taylor." |
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