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The Depressing News About Antidepressants

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Studies suggest that the popular drugs are no more effective than a placebo. In fact, they may be worse.

Yes, the drugs are effective, in that they lift depression in most patients. But that benefit is hardly more than what patients get when they, unknowingly and as part of a study, take a dummy pill—a placebo. As more and more scientists who study depression and the drugs that treat it are concluding, that suggests that antidepressants are basically expensive Tic Tacs.

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