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Gainesville Sun
HOOKED ON HAPPY: Long-term use of antidepressants was not supposed to happen. It has.
Gainesville Sun
Victoria Toline would hunch over the kitchen table, steady her hands and draw a bead of liquid from a vial with a small dropper. It was a delicate operation that had become a daily routine — extracting ever tinier doses of the antidepressant she had ...

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Troy Media
Madness, murder and antidepressant drugs
Troy Media
Although problems first started emerging in the 1990s, it wasn't until 2004 that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) – the U.S. agency in charge of ensuring the safety and efficacy of drugs – began requiring drug manufacturers to place a black-box ...

Sarasota Herald-Tribune
HOOKED ON HAPPY: Long-term use of antidepressants was not ...
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Victoria Toline would hunch over the kitchen table, steady her hands and draw a bead of liquid from a vial with a small dropper. It was a delicate operation that had become a daily routine — extracting ever tinier doses of the antidepressant she had ...

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Antidepressants equally effective across severity levels of social anxiety, OCD, PTSD
Healio
Results from an individual patient data metaanalysis demonstrated that antidepressants are equally effective for all severity levels of social anxiety disorder, OCD and PTSD, but for generalized anxiety disorder and panic disorder, the benefits are ...

Psychiatry Advisor
CBT Cost-Effective for Adolescents Declining Antidepressants
Psychiatry Advisor
During the 24-month follow-up period, participants in the CBT group had an additional 43.3 depression –free days. Brief cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in a primary care setting effectively reduces depression symptoms in adolescents age 12 to 18 who ...

Washington Post
Ketamine nasal spray esketamine eases depression in a phase 2 ...
Washington Post
The latest clinical trial of esketamine, the nasal-spray form of the club drug ketamine, is boosting confidence among some psychiatrists that it could be a major advance in the treatment of suicidal depression. In a study published this week in the ...

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Minneapolis Star Tribune
Long-term use of antidepressants surging, but more patients say ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Victoria Toline would hunch over, steady her hands and draw a bead of liquid from a vial with a dropper. It was a delicate operation — extracting ever tinier doses of the antidepressant she had taken for three years and was desperately trying to quit ...

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CCHR Promotes New York Times Expose on Antidepressant ...
GlobeNewswire (press release)
CLEARWATER, Fla., April 19, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Florida chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a human rights group founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and renowned psychiatrist Dr. Thomas Szasz, promoted the ...

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Medical Xpress
Are antidepressants safe in patients with coronary heart disease?
Medical Xpress
The proportion of days covered was approximately 70% for all 4 major antidepressant classes; discontinuation rates ranged from 37.3% for tricyclics to 53.2% for serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRI). Antidepressant use was significantly ...

ABC Local
Antidepressants less effective for night owls, linked to light exposure, researchers believe
ABC Local
The effect of light exposure on mental and physical health has been highlighted by new Australian research that suggests antidepressants could be less effective for night owls than for early risers. A study published in the medical journal ...

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CBC.ca (blog)
Think twice before you take antidepressants
CBC.ca (blog)
Canadians are among the world's biggest consumers of antidepressants. A report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) put Canada in third place on a list of 23 industrialised nations. A disturbing number of users may be in ...

New York Times
Antidepressants and Withdrawal: Readers Tell Their Stories - The ...
New York Times
In a widely read article on antidepressant withdrawal published on April 8, The New York Times invited readers to describe their experiences coming off the drugs. More than 8,800 people responded — teenagers, college students, new mothers, empty ...
I Love My Antidepressant, but It Scares the Crap Out of MeMomtastic (blog)

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Psychiatric Times
Connecting the Dots to Better Antidepressant Response
Psychiatric Times
The research team conjectured that the intrinsic functional organization of DMN connections must be intact to allow for a clinically relevant response to antidepressant pharmacotherapy. They added that if assessment of intrinsic functional connectivity ...

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TheStreet.com
Alkermes Wins Quick Reversal From FDA on Antidepressant Drug
TheStreet.com
CEO Richard Pops in a statement said: "We are extremely disappointed with this decision and the implications for patients in the U.S. suffering from major depressive disorder, a serious disease where there is a clear and urgent need for new treatment ...
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D-Cycloserine: A Novel Antidepressant to Be Explored?
Healio
Navjot Brainch, MD, is a third-year Psychiatry Resident. Sanya Virani, MD, MPH, is a second-year Psychiatry Resident. Lama Bazzi, MD, is the Psychiatry Inpatient Unit Director, and an Attending Physician. All authors are affiliated with the Department ...

Business Standard
Cipla arm recalls multiple lots of antidepressant drug from US market
Business Standard
Cipla gets USFDA nod to market generic version of cancer drug Dacogen Cipla shines in gloomy pharma pack, biggest beneficiary of faster approvals Pricing woes force Cipla, Glenmark, Lupin to go slow on US drug pipeline Cipla's consistent margin gains ...
Cipla's US subsidiary InvaGen Pharma recalls antidepressant drug in USIndiainfoline

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The Tribune
Cipla arm recalls multiple lots of antidepressant drug from US
The Tribune
New Delhi, April 15. Pharma major Cipla's arm InvaGen Pharmaceuticals Inc is recalling 11 lots of antidepressant bupropion HCl extended-release tablets from the US market due to failed dissolution specifications, latest enforcement report of the US ...

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TheFix.com
Why Antidepressant Users Have Trouble Quitting Their Medication
TheFix.com
New Zealand, too, has found its antidepressant prescriptions at an all-time high, with 75% of its users complaining about unpleasant withdrawal symptoms. Worldwide, however, the problem remains the same: patients who try to stop taking their Cymbalta ...

Cost Sharing and Branded Antidepressant Initiation Among Patients Treated With Generics
AJMC.com Managed Markets Network
Patients were included in each year-specific analysis if they had at least 1 claim with a diagnosis of MDD and 1 claim for a generic antidepressant during the 12-month year or the 3 months preceding the calendar year of interest. The lists of generic ...