Are Antidepressant Drugs Actually Worth Taking?

A psychologist says secret corporate documents show how ineffective the drugs really are.

published online October 10, 2008

• More prescriptions are dispensed for antidepressants—232.7 million nationwide in 2007—than for drugs of any other type, according to the data firm, IMS Health.

• U.S. sales of antidepressants totaled $11.9 billion in 2007, IMS Health reports.

The average improvement of patients getting a placebo was over 80 percent as effective.

One of the side effects [of antidepressants] is increased risk of suicide.

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