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Be an Informed Consumer!

October 30, 2012 by Dr. Paul Greene

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Much attention has been cast on the relationships between clinical medicine and the pharmaceutical industries. How much has the pharmaceutical industry been influencing the treatment of depression and anxiety?  The rate of use of prescription medication in the United States is higher than in other industrialized nations.  The use of prescription antidepressant medication has drastically increased in the past 20 years. 

In fact, a 2007 study by the CDC found that in the United States, antidepressants were prescribed more often than medications for high blood pressure or high cholesterol! It is likely that the effects of direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical marketing, such as television and radio commercials, have played an important role in the increased use of many patented antidepressant and anti-anxiety medications.  These medications have been very profitable for pharmaceutical companies. In recent years, television commercials even advertise serious antipsychotic medication — even for use with depression — despite the fact that many in the field consider these drugs to be overused and to cause problematic side effects.

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Filed Under: American mental healthcare, Depression, Evidence-based treatment Tagged With: antidepressants, anxiety, depression

Treatments for OCD: Comparing Medication and ERP Therapy

November 25, 2010 by Dr. Paul Greene

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For those persons suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), there are effective ways to get help. In fact, research has shown two treatments for OCD to be quite effective in reducing symptoms: 1) Exposure and response prevention therapy (also known as ERP), and 2) psychotropic medication. Which is better?

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Filed Under: Evidence-based treatment, OCD Tagged With: antidepressants, ocd

Is Your Antidepressant Any Better Than a Placebo?

February 7, 2010 by Dr. Paul Greene

Are antidepressants really just placebos? This is the provocative question posed by some recent research and journalism. The answer is not what you’d think for a medication with $14 billion in annual U.S. sales taken by 17 million Americans.

On January 29th there appeared a well researched and well written piece in Newsweek on the effectiveness of antidepressants. The article, by Sharon Begley, explains some important aspects of the process by which pharmaceutical agents are brought to market and are prescribed.

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Filed Under: Depression, Evidence-based treatment Tagged With: antidepressants

Science-Based Therapy: Is There Such A Thing?

November 8, 2009 by Dr. Paul Greene

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Most people closely associate medicine and science, but how many of us think of science and psychotherapy as being related? Maybe we don’t, but we should. The best therapy is science-based.

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Filed Under: American mental healthcare, Evidence-based treatment Tagged With: antidepressants, therapy

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