With Spanish subtitles, former pharmaceutical representative and Doctor spends 7 minutes explaining that big pharma wants you to be on drugs instead of wanting you to actually get healthy. Big pharma does not have to test or prove their drugs against placebo trials and they earn enough money through life-long customers to pay for big TV campaigns that trick you into thinking drugs actually work.
The good doctor is advocating that you become educated and take control of your health.
Twenty-plus years of research on antidepressants, from the old tricyclics to the newer selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) show that their benefit is hardly more than what patients get when they take a placebo.
More and more scientists who study depression and the drugs that treat it are concluding that antidepressants are basically expensive Tic Tacs.
Research has found that patients do improve, often substantially, on SSRIs, tricyclics, and even MAO inhibitors. This improvement is the basis for the ubiquitous claim that antidepressants work.
But when researchers compare the improvement in patients taking the drugs with the improvement in those taking dummy pills, they find that the difference is minuscule. Read the rest of this entry »
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