Prozac
What Really Happened in the Original Fluoxetine (Prozac) Trials for Children and Adolescents?
Antidepressant use soared in the 1990s due to marketing, direct to physician and direct to consumer advertising producing a controversial era in which drug makers directly targeted consumers for their products. As a result of the antidepressant marketing campaign, depression diagnoses also surged during this period. Within a decade, the diagnosis of depression increased from…
Read MoreProzac, Beginning of the Anti-Depressant Era
The integrity of medical literature has been called into question. Drug makers spend significantly more money on advertisements than on the actual research and development of the drug. The media targets the consumers with ads, acting as the marketing arm of the pharmaceutical industry, with great financial interest. Much of the research results are misreported…
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