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Antidepressant Use Doubles in U.S.
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Use of antidepressant drugs in the United States doubled between 1996 and 2005, probably because of a mix of factors, researchers reported on Monday.
About 6 percent of people were prescribed an antidepressant in 1996 -- 13 million people. This rose to more than 10 percent or 27 million people by 2005, the researchers found.
"Significant increases in antidepressant use were evident across all sociodemographic groups examined, except African Americans," Dr. Mark Olfson of Columbia University in New York and Steven Marcus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia wrote in the Archives of General Psychiatry.
"Not only are more U.S. residents being treated with antidepressants, but also those who are being treated are receiving more antidepressant prescriptions," they added.
More than 164 million prescriptions were written in 2008 for antidepressants, totaling $9.6 billion in U.S. sales, according to IMS Health.
Drugs that affect the brain chemical serotonin like GlaxoSmithKline's Paxil, known generically as paroxetine, and Eli Lilly and Co's Prozac, known generically as fluoxetine, are the most commonly prescribed class of antidepressant. But the study found the effect in all classes of the drugs.
Olfson and Marcus looked at the Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys done by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, involving more than 50,000 people in 1996 and 2005.
"During this period, individuals treated with antidepressants became more likely to also receive treatment with antipsychotic medications and less likely to undergo psychotherapy," they wrote.
SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE
The survey did not look at why, but the researchers made some educated guesses. It may be more socially acceptable to be diagnosed with and treated for depression, they said. The availability of new drugs may also have been a factor.
"Although there was little change in total promotional spending for antidepressants between 1999 ($0.98 billion) and 2005 ($1.02 billion), there was a marked increase in the percentage of this spending that was devoted to direct-to consumer advertising, from 3.3 percent ($32 million) to 12 percent ($122.00 million)," they added.
Dr. Eric Caine of the University of Rochester in New York said he was concerned by the findings. "Antidepressants are only moderately effective on population level," he said in a telephone interview.
Caine, who was not involved in the research, noted that several studies show therapy is as effective as, if not more effective than, drug use alone.
"There are no data to say that the population is healthier. Indeed, the suicide rate in the middle years of life has been climbing," he said.
Olfson and Marcus said out-of-pocket costs for psychotherapy and lower insurance coverage for such visits may have driven patients away from seeing therapists in favor of an easy-to-prescribe pill.
The rise in antidepressant prescriptions also is seen despite a series of public health warnings on use of antidepressant drugs beginning in 2003 after clinical trials showed they increased the risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in children and teens.
In February 2005, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration added its strongest warning, a so-called black box, on the use of all antidepressants in children and teens.
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor Maggie Fox, Health And Science Editor
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Mon Aug 3, 4:01 pm ET
Article - The Drugs May be the Problem: 20 Inconvenient Truths about Psychotropic Drugs and the Pharmaceutical Industry
1) “FDA approval” doesn’t mean a psychotropic drug is safe or effective long-term.
2) The FDA doesn’t test drugs, it only reviews studies – and most often these studies are designed and paid for by the very drug companies that will profit by the approval of these drugs.
3) Typically, the SSRIs and the neuroleptic drugs are only tested on humans for 8—12 weeks before being granted marketing approval by the FDA. (Then patients are often told they may have to take these drugs for the rest of their lives).
4) The claim that there is such a thing as a “brain chemistry imbalance” has never been proven and therefore remains a theory; in fact, psychotropic drugs commonly deplete natural brain chemicals and alter the anatomy of the brain.
5) It is absurd to claim that antidepressant drugs work like insulin for diabetics; there is no such thing as a Prozac deficiency.
6) The so-called “discontinuation syndrome” that is so common with SSRI antidepressants, in most cases is not a relapse into a previous illness, but is actually a drug withdrawal syndrome which only happens with dependency-inducing (addicting) drugs.
7) Ritalin works very much like cocaine, but it is longer acting.
8) All psychoactive drugs are brain-altering / brain-disabling and are NOT brain healing.
9) Mental “illnesses” almost always can be revealed, if enough time is spent with the patient, to represent a decompensation because of an emotionally overwhelming crisis situation in a person’s life (from the past or present) and therefore are potentially curable UNLESS psychiatric drugs are applied and continued for the long-term.
10) Psychotropic drugs are probably the major cause of permanent disability because of mental illness.
11) There is much evidence in the literature that many commonly-prescribed psychiatric drugs are brain damaging with long-term use, especially the anti-psychotics.
12) It is NOT bipolar disorder when someone experiences mania from an agitation-inducing antidepressant.
13) There is no psychiatric drug that is FDA approved for the prevention of suicide. These psychiatric drugs, including the SSRIs, actually increase the incidence of suicidality.
14) All of the infamous homicidal and suicidal “school shooters” (at least the ones whose medical files haven’t been sealed) had been taking psychiatric drugs, either SSRIs such as Prozac or psychostimulants such as Ritalin.
15) Studies have shown that 4—8% of people under the age of 18 will become psychotic, suicidal or homicidal from SSRIs.
16) Pharmaceutical drugs have obscenely high profit margins -as much as 569,958% in the case of Xanax.
17) The CEOs of the major pharmaceutical companies earn yearly salaries in the tens of millions of dollars per year but have public approval ratings nearing the single digits.
18) Cholesterol is vitally important, indeed essential, for a healthy central nervous system.
19) The Standard American Diet is so deficient in essential nutrients and so poisoned by synthetic food additives and preservatives that brain malnutrition and toxicity is epidemic.
20) There are a number of very affordable, non-drug, brain-healing nutrients (including amino acids, essential fatty acids, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants) that are safe, highly effective and even curative for many neurological and mental health conditions.
