Children's Pill Pusher Withholds Critical Information

[donsu]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A58130-2004Jan28?language=printer

Makers of popular antidepressants such as Paxil, Zoloft and Effexor have refused to disclose the details of most clinical trials involving depressed children, denying doctors and parents crucial evidence as they weigh fresh fears that such medicines may cause some children to become suicidal.

The companies say the studies are trade secrets. Researchers familiar with the unpublished data said the majority of secret trials show that children taking the medicines did not get any better than children taking dummy pills.

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The U.S. psychiatric establishment largely supports the use of antidepressant medicines in children, with many arguing that abandoning the drugs would lead to more suicides in children with depression. But its critics, including consumer advocates and some psychiatrists , question whether mainstream psychiatry is biased by widespread financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry.

The answer lies hidden in a maze of secret data, conflicting scientific interpretations and a corporate-funded clinical trial system that is not primarily designed to answer questions of public health.
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this is a long article full of facts and info.

guess it boils down to pharms, psychs, ,etc. making money off of depressed kid's parents and harming the kids in the process.

[tom_paine]

1. The "Soma" of Brave New World is here

Funny how 21st Century Imperial Amerika much more closely resembles dystopian sci-fi novels than it does the Old American Republic.