This is the story of how Britain's biggest drug company deliberately misled doctors into prescribing Seroxat, which it couldn't prove actually worked for teenagers. Not only that, one of its own clinical trials indicated that they were six times more likely to become suicidal after taking it.Link here. I've got to get to the link to watch Panorama online. Should be eye-opening.
Psychiatric medications, science, marketing, psychiatry in general, and occasionally clinical psychology. Questioning the role of key opinion leaders and the use of "science" to promote commercial ends rather than the needs of people with mental health concerns.
Monday, January 29, 2007
Seroxat Update
A nice little tidbit from PharmaGossip on the latest in the Paxil (US) / Seroxat (UK) fiasco
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