The effectiveness of antidepressants is greatly exaggerated. Erick H. Turner, a psychiatrist at the Oregon Health and Sciences University (USA), analyzed the results of 74 trials of 12 antidepressants from 1987 to 2004 and found that only half (!) Of the cases, the effect of drugs was unconditionally favorable, and all these data have been published.
The effectiveness of antidepressants is greatly exaggerated. Erick H. Turner, a psychiatrist at the Oregon Health and Sciences University (USA), analyzed the results of 74 trials of 12 antidepressants from 1987 to 2004 and found that only half (!) Of the cases, the effect of drugs was unconditionally favorable, and all these data have been published. Other trials have been declared failures, only three of them publicly. “The exaggeration of the effect of drugs deceives the hopes of patients,” says Dr. Turner. So we should be more careful and not take every prescribed drug as a panacea.