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What You Need to know About Depression Medication

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Anonymous:
Antidepressants
What You Need to know About Depression Medication

http://helpguide.org/mental/medications_depression.htm

Anonymous:
There is a lot of good information in this piece. I especially like the part that states that there is no way to measure serotonin levels in the brain and that the "chemical imbalance" idea is a "theory".

Thanks to "off label" marketing and the changing of the laws on what can be prescribed for what ailment over the past few years, I was given an SSRI for insomnia, not even for depression. By law now, no tests are needed for prescribing medications for conditions the drugs were never tested for. I would like to see more info like this in the piece.

Anonymous:
More proof...  Long read but full of interesting information:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... yV1nYxCGoA

Anonymous:

--- Quote ---One of Pfizer’s units had been pushing doctors to prescribe an epilepsy drug called Neurontin for uses the Food and Drug Administration had never approved.
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I was under the impression the FDA approved Neurontin for all epilepsy related uses.

Ursus:

--- Quote from: "Joel" ---
--- Quote ---One of Pfizer's units had been pushing doctors to prescribe an epilepsy drug called Neurontin for uses the Food and Drug Administration had never approved.
--- End quote ---
I was under the impression the FDA approved Neurontin for all epilepsy related uses.
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That may be so (I'm just not sure about the "all epilepsy related uses" part), but the FDA sure as hell didn't approve it for pain management and bipolar disorder, and yet those markets were targeted and generated substantially more prescriptions than the epilepsy market ever did for Warner–Lambert (later bought out by Pfizer Inc.).

Moreover, given that one of Neurontin's side effects happens to be suicidal ideation, I would think that prescribing it for folks who may be at risk for being in a not so good emotional state would be counterintuitive. Yet that is exactly what happened.

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