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April 27, 2005
Are You Being Manipulated?
Doctors are easily persuaded to prescribe antidepressants — often unnecessarily — when patients mention having seen them in television advertisements, researchers reported Tuesday.
In an unusual experiment in which actresses posed as patients, doctors were five times more likely to write them prescriptions after the patients inquired about a specific antidepressant, Paxil. The actresses pretended to have a mild form of depression, a condition that does not require antidepressants.
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Posted on April 27, 2005 07:32 PM by antide275.
Filed in Mental Health Update under antidepressants.
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