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(Newser) - The number of Americans on antidepressants doubled from 1996 to 2005, a new study finds, but fewer are seeing psychiatrists, and most aren’t using the drugs to affect their mood. As of 2005, the last year for which data were available, 27 million Americans—roughly 10% of the population—... More »

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depression • advertising • antidepressant • Prozac • pharmaceutical industry • scientific study • health study

Depression Screening for All Teens Worries Parents

Task force calls for adolescent testing with focus on psychotherapy instead of drugs

May 26, 09 1:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - A federal task force recommendation that all adolescents between the ages of 12 and 18 be screened for depression is causing controversy among parents and pediatricians, the Washington Post reports. Critics fear the amount of antidepressant drugs prescribed to teens will rise massively, although the Preventive Services Task Force stressed... More »

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depression • antidepressant • mental health • pediatrics • pediatricians • adolescents • teenager • suicide prevention • U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

FDA OKs Drug
for Kids Despite Justice Probe

Firm wooed docs to illegally prescribe antidepressant: feds

Mar 21, 09 9:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - The FDA has approved an antidepressant called Lexapro for kids, just weeks after the Justice Department accused its maker of marketing it illegally—for kids. Prosecutors say Forest Laboratories for years sweet-talked pediatricians into prescribing Lexapro and the similar Celexa by offering spa visits, event tickets, and fishing trips, even... More »

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FDA • antidepressant • drug companies • children • pediatricians • teenager • kickbacks

OPINION

Noonan: Maybe Wall Street Was High on Xanax

Maybe money men were hopped up on anti-depressants

Mar 13, 09 7:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Peggy Noonan has a novel explanation for the crash (“or the great recession, or the collapse—it’s time it got its name”): What if the bankers were all hopped up on happy pills? Antidepressant use became widespread in New York after 9/11, she notes in the Wall ... More »

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depression • antidepressant • Peggy Noonan • economy • financial crisis • recession depression • Bill Maher Grid

 Money Woes Boost 
 Sales of Sedatives, 
 Antidepressants 

Jump comes despite dive in marketing dollars

Mar 9, 09 3:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Here's a downer: The sale of antidepressants and sleeping pills have jumped amid the recession, and 31% of Americans asked about their sleeping habits say financial worries are keeping them up at night. The 7% jump in sleep aids comes despite hundreds of millions of fewer dollars spent on their... More »

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antidepressant • marketing • recession • sleeping pills • Ambien • recession depression

Beware: Antidepressants Could Kill Your Sex Life

New studies show surprising libido effects in antidepressants

Dec 15, 08 12:23 PM CST
(Newser) - An impaired sex drive has long been recognized as an occasional side effect of some antidepressants, but recent research suggests the drugs' libido-stifling powers might be far more widespread than doctors and patients thought. The prevalence of users experiencing numbness or fleeting arousal may be as high as 50%, and... More »

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antidepressant • Prozac • Paxil • side effects • SSRIs • sexual dysfunction

 New Yorkers Fight 
 Crisis With Pills 


Prescriptions shoot up in Sept., Oct.

Dec 15, 08 8:24 AM CST
(Newser) - At least there's one market that's booming in New York—the market for pills for your sleeplessness, anxiety, and depression, Crain’s New York Business reports. The meltdown in the financial industry has caused a surge in prescriptions: In September, as Lehman Brothers was collapsing, and AIG and Merrill Lynch... More »

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New York City • depression • antidepressant • New York • prescription drugs • anxiety • medication • sleeping pills • financial crisis

 Depression Killed 
 David Foster 
 Wallace 

Only friends, family knew of the writer's emotional state

Sep 27, 08 6:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - After a torrent of tributes to David Foster Wallace since his suicide 2 weeks ago, Salon talks with close friends and family members about the decades-long battle with depression that led the beloved and astonishingly talented writer to take his life. For years, Wallace functioned with the help of antidepressants,... More »

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suicide • depression • antidepressant • author • MacArthur Grant • David Foster Wallace

Drugs Shrinking Psychiatrists' Talk Time: Study

Cost-conscious managed care also seen behind decline

Aug 5, 08 8:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Psychiatry is increasingly focused on prescribing drugs and less on psychotherapy, a study published in the Archives of General Psychology finds. A reluctance by insurance firms to pay for therapy is one factor, HealthDay reports, along with the wide variety of drugs now available to treat various conditions. More »

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psychiatry • antidepressant • mental health • psychology • pharmaceutical industry • medication • psychotherapy

 Combat Troops Turn to Prozac 

Anti-depressants keep soldiers in the field

Jun 6, 08 3:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - A growing number of American troops serving abroad are taking Prozac and other antidepressants, Time reports. A survey last year found 12% of troops in Iraq are using the drugs, with 17% relying on them in Afghanistan. The drugs help the military keep stressed combat troops in the field—but... More »

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depression • antidepressant • US military • Prozac • PTSD • SSRIs

ANALYSIS

'Experts' Too Often Feeding From Industry Troughs

Press misses, ignores where funds come from

May 8, 08 6:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Media consumers, beware: that assertive, well-versed, trustworthy "expert" may in fact be an industry shill, Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer write on Slate. Journalists across the board, and even some radio hosts, are failing to disclose financial ties to various industries—drug companies being a prime example—fudging the... More »

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drugs • antidepressant • drug companies • journalism • radio advertising • front company • source

Supreme Court Rejects Boy Killer's Appeal

He claims drugs
made him shoot grandparents

Apr 14, 08 7:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Supreme Court refused today to let a teenage boy appeal his 30-year sentence for double-murder, CNN reports. Christopher Pittman, who was tried as an adult in South Carolina 3 years ago, is serving the longest sentence ever for someone his age—and blames antidepressants for inspiring him to kill... More »

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antidepressant • murder • appeal • trial • sentencing • Paxil • murder trial • US Supreme Court • juvenile

Feds OK Wyeth's New Antidepressant

Faced with generic threats to its popular Effexor XR, company banking on Pristiq

Feb 29, 08 7:41 PM CST
(Newser) - Antidepressant Effexor XR will soon lose patent protection, and maker Wyeth is hoping Pristiq, the successor drug approved today by the FDA, will soften the financial blow. Higher-ups at the company gush over Pristiq's advantages, including zero acclimation time and no liver interaction, and hope that sales will offset losses... More »

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stock market • FDA • antidepressant • Wyeth • metabolism • Effexor • patent expiration • Pristiq • metabolite

Polly Want a Prozac?

Parrots are the latest pets to see spike in depression

Feb 26, 08 9:33 AM CST
(Newser) - With more pet owners working long days and leaving their furry and feathered friends alone at home, cases of animal depression are on the rise, writes the Daily Telegraph. A TV vet says the trend is hitting parrots especially hard, causing the talkative birds to pull out their feathers or... More »

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pets • depression • antidepressant • prescription drugs • Eli Lilly • parrot • dog • medicating pets

Antidepressants Mostly Useless, Study Finds

Prozac and others make a difference only  in most extreme cases

Feb 26, 08 7:41 AM CST
(Newser) - Big Pharma swallowed a bitter pill yesterday as Prozac and other antidepressants were found in a UK study to be largely ineffectual in all but the most extreme cases of depression. The meta-analysis of 47 clinical trials submitted to the FDA with licensing applications for six popular antidepressants concluded that... More »

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medical breakthrough • depression • antidepressant • GlaxoSmithKline • prescription drugs • therapy • Eli Lilly • Prozac • Wyeth • pharmaceutical industry

Prices Jump for Top Drugs

Drug giants collect now against expected future losses

Feb 21, 08 4:45 AM CST
(Newser) - Drug companies have slapped a series of huge price hikes on some prescription drugs ahead of drug patent expirations, the Wall Street Journal reports. GlaxoSmithKline has raised the price of antidepressant Wellbutrin 44.5%, while Sanofi-Aventis hiked Ambien's price 70%. Wholesale prices for the top 50 drugs increased an average... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • antidepressant • drug companies • GlaxoSmithKline • Pfizer • health insurance premiums • price increases • health care reform • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services • Lipitor • pharmaceutical industry • co-pays • Ambien • Wellbutrin • Adderall XR • Sanofi-Aventis • Shire • patent expiration

Lover Airs NIU Shooter's Letter

'Don't forget me,' killer told girlfriend in final love letter

Feb 18, 08 6:48 AM CST
(Newser) - The girlfriend of the gunman who murdered five students at Northern Illinois University Thursday talked to him every day last week, including the night before the shooting spree, and detected nothing amiss. "He wasn't erratic. He wasn't delusional. He was Steve; he was normal," Jessica Baty, 28, told... More »

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antidepressant • Disney World • murder-suicide • Northern Illinois University • Steven Kazmierczak • criminal justice • Jessica Baty • Urbana-Champaign • shotgun • handgun • love letter • The Antichrist • Friedrich Nietzsche • campus shooting

Bah, Happiness: Gloom Is Normal

Sadness is a normal emotion, not a disease, cries anti-joy crowd

Feb 7, 08 8:06 AM CST
(Newser) - Maybe you're feeling a little down—not to worry! Turn to self-help books, psychiatrists, little blue pills, or Dr. Phil to make you happier! But in Against Happiness, melancholy Eric Wilson rails against our culture’s “craven disregard for the value of sadness.” And a growing... More »

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depression • psychiatry • antidepressant • psychology • Zoloft • Aristotle • Dr Phil • sadness • melancholy • self-help • Great Depression

FDA Mandates Suicide Risk Assessment in Drug Trials

Danger doesn't lie only in antidepressants

Jan 24, 08 11:42 AM CST
(Newser) - The Food and Drug Administration is now requiring drug companies to monitor suicide warning signs in clinical trials for experimental drugs, the New York Times reports. In the wake of studies showing that antidepressants might increase the risk of self-harm in children and teens, the agency is showing an awareness... More »

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suicide • FDA • antidepressant • Merck • Sanofi Aventis • Eli Lilly • anti obesity drugs • clinical trials • experimental drugs

Talk About 'Blue Monday'

Tracking Google searches shows low point before, not after, holidays

Jan 21, 08 12:25 PM CST
(Newser) - Unless you're a Giants fan, it's likely you woke up this morning feeling a bit more than the usual Monday blahs. The third Monday in January is the most depressing day of the year, says a Cardiff University researcher. He bases his annual predictions on weather, holiday debt, and broken... More »

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weather • Google • suicide • depression • antidepressant • gas prices • Thanksgiving • New Year's resolutions • Dr. Cliff Arnall • mental crisis • most depressing day of the year • holiday depression • online search

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