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They are among the biggest-selling drugs of all time, the "happiness pills" that supposedly lift the moods of those who suffer depression and are taken by millions of people. But one of the largest studies of modern antidepressant drugs has found that they have no clinically significant effect. In other words, they don't work.

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ghengisghan
Feb. 26, 2008, 4:59 p.m.
A BIG FRIGGIN DUH!!!!
These pills are mostly useless and over prescribed.
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BoxMonkey
Feb. 26, 2008, 6:01 p.m.
This is all about the U.K. Anti- depressents do work and are important or else everyone would be taking placebo sugar pills . Disreguard them and get ready for some psycho killings .Either suicide or murder , actually or both . This is more propaganda .
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Beau7890
Feb. 26, 2008, 10:52 p.m.
Even this study says "The results showed the drugs were effective only in a very small group of the most extremely depressed.
But that's who SSRIs were originally intended to treat. Today, they're way overprescribed, handed out for the most minor complaints about mood. People with organic causes of severe lack of serotonin bonding to specific sites can be helped by SSRIs. But they should not be overused.
Imagine if painkillers were so easily obtained--and SSRIs regulate brain activity.