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Re:There is little research into the long-term effects of us... by zwwwdr on Monday May 08, 2017 @05:04PM (#14295593)
So Glaxo Smith Klein misrepresented adverse effects of paroxetine. This doesnt mean at all that the science behind SSRIs is "fraudulent". SSRIs are among the best researched psychopharmaceuticals. And it is true that benzos make anxiety worse, long term, but that doesnt mean that they arent a valuable medication to treat anxiety.
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Re:There is little research into the long-term effects of us... by tcj_phx on Monday May 08, 2017 @05:48PM (#14295926)
Prozac was always defective too. The German FDA refused to approve it, way back when.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14281643

The drug industry has a habit of coming out with a new "class" of drugs as soon as the patents for their old drugs expire. Or they patent a new combination for old over-the-counter chemicals. My father recently got prescribed something with a retail price of >$1000. He said he could buy the two OTC pills for about $15... this was something for his stomach + an nsaid, iirc.

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Re:There is little research into the long-term effects of us... by tptacek on Monday May 08, 2017 @06:09PM (#14296101)
The "German FDA" has certainly approved of fluoxetine (Prozac), which is simply sold under a different name there.
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Re:There is little research into the long-term effects of us... by tcj_phx on Monday May 08, 2017 @11:15PM (#14297479)
maybe they eventually approved it, but they passed on it in 1984:

  – Three years before Prozac received approval by the US 
  Food and Drug Administration in late 1987, the German BGA, 
  that country’s FDA equivalent, had such serious 
  reservations about Prozac’s safety that it refused to 
  approve the antidepressant based on Lilly’s studies 
  showing that previously nonsuicidal patients who took the 
  drug had a fivefold higher rate of suicides and suicide 
  attempts than those on older antidepressants, and a 
  threefold higher rate than those taking placebos. [1]
[1] http://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/media/boston_globe_prozac_revi...

Two more links from this site ("note-to-self"): https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/prozac-time-line/ https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/our-successes/advocacy-campai...

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Re:There is little research into the long-term effects of us... by tptacek on Monday May 08, 2017 @11:49PM (#14297609)
There's no "maybe" about it - Prozac is available in Germany, just under a different name.
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