What you saw on TV the other day was implicitly wrong. Prozan is an SSRI, and has a specific and complex brain functionality.
Additionally, the citation you provided is cleverly styled to appear to be the APA website, but by navigating to the root domain, we see that it is in actuality a virulently anti-psych website: http://www.antidepressantsfacts.com/ This tends to color their data a bit, no? Here are some links to non-biased, peer reviewed studies at PubMed, the general repository for scientific research in the US, directly addressing the question of SSRI versus placebo. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11405969?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DiscoveryPanel.Pubmed_Discovery_RA&linkpos=2&log$=relatedreviews&logdbfrom=pubmed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19468281?ordinalpos=9&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18922243?ordinalpos=25&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum Here's a great quote: "In a 10-week randomised, double-blind trial in patients with panic disorder, escitalopram (flexible doses 5-10 mg/d) was significantly more effective than placebo in reducing the panic attack frequency, with a faster onset of action than citalopram." In fact, in all the studies that I've seen where the efficacy of the medication over placebo dropped to less than 30%, they were 'mild to moderate' cases to begin with. In other words, the Prozac didn't help much because there wasn't much of a chemical problem there to help with. Those cases should have been referred to psychologists, not psychiatrists. Blaming the medication for not fixing a problem that is not chemical in nature is downright silly. There's been a cure for being stressed out and mildly depressed that humans have used for a thousand years. It's called three friends and a Pub. On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 8:28 AM, deripsni <[email protected]> wrote: > > I found this article that claims that the placebo effect accounts for > 50% of the improvement in depressed patients taking anitdepressents, > while only 27% is due to the actual drug. I also saw something on TV > the other day stating that Prozac was basically a sugar coated > placebo. This seems to support a lot of what Molly is saying. > > http://www.antidepressantsfacts.com/1996-APA-placebo-vs-SSRI.htm > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
