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Stop Using Antidepressants Except for “the Most Severe Depression,” Experts Say

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Take, for instance, a recent meta-analysis finding that exercise is just as good as antidepressants at treating mild to moderate depression —and that adding drugs to the regimen does not improve outcomes. But they also need to stay in their place.” Is There Evidence for Antidepressant Efficacy?

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STAR*D: The Harms of Orchestrated Psychiatric Fraud

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They claim the study found the drugs to be effective treatments for depression, leading to remission in 67% of patients, but this is false; that finding was inflated by various types of research misconduct , even including imaginary remission rates from people who dropped out of the study.