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PTSD and Anti-Depressant Drugs: the Worst Notorious Modern Medical Fraud

Seeded on Thu Sep 23, 2010 11:30 AM EDT
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health, today, mental-health, crimes, psychiatry, pharma, abuses, apa, wpa, conflicts-of-interest
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(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I'm sure some people will take umbrage at my title. Keep on reading. First of all there are about 30 of them – why? It's easy, most don't work. In fact placebos (fake sugar pills) frequently work better.

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A side comment is that the drug companies have sold the idea to the Veterans Administration and they prescribe these drugs by the ton to PTSD Veterans. The evidence is that they don’t help much and cause a lot of harm.

The harm Dr. Leveque is speaking of is an increased suicide rate among active and reservist military personnel by just about an order of magnitude.

First of all there are about 30 of them – why? It's easy, most don't work.

EVERYBODY-jump on the SSRI BANDWAGON

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