Effectiveness of Antidepressants Greatly Exaggerated

Boston (dbTechno) - According to a report by Oregon Health & Science University, the effectiveness of many popular antidepressant drugs is greatly exaggerated by trial results which are only released to make the drugs look good.

The report was published in the New England Journal of Medicine and is based off of a study which shows that the producers of antidepressants publish only positive results from drug trials.

They completely turn their heads to about one-third of the drug trials which show that the popular antidepressant drugs do not work.

Doctors and patients are being greatly misled because of this in regards to how effective, or ineffective these antidepressant drugs actually can be.

For the study they looked at published studies with drug efficacy reported to the U.S. government registry of clinical trials. They found that out of the 74 studies on 12 antidepressant drugs, 48 produced positive results.

Researchers stated “selective publication can lead doctors to make inappropriate prescribing decisions that may not be in the best interest of their patients and, thus, the public health.”

The 36 negative studies resulted in 11 of them being flipped to make the drug appear to work, while 22 were completely ignored. Only 3 were published.