Posted by Bob on February 28, 2002, at 12:58:41
In reply to Re: Antidepressant drug trials, posted by Bill L on February 28, 2002, at 8:50:00
> The other short coming of clinical trials is that each trial only lasts for a very brief period of time such as 6 to 8 weeks. Many people have a different experience with a drug after a year or so then they did after their first 6 weeks on the drug.
==================================================This has always been one of my major beefs. Response in the first 6 weeks of using an AD may (and often is) quite different from response a year down the road. This is why drug companies don't recognize withdrawal syndromes, and why they don't want to face weightgain and poop-out issues. Many of these things happen way after the 6 week period. They are only doing what is necessary to get the drug approved. They have no interest in in running horrifically expensive long term studies in order to find bad news.
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