Apparntly there has been a study that claims Prozac is no better than placebos. The following is from The Frontal Cortex at Science Blogs.com
"Lots of attention has been paid to the latest review/meta-analysis demonstrating that popular antidepressant medications don't seem to be that much more effective than placebos. While this certainly isn't the first time someone has demonstrated that Prozac is only mildly more useful than a sugar pill (unless, that is, you fall into the "severely depressed" category), this review was noteworthy because it consisted mainly of previously unpublished studies done by the drug makers before the drugs were put on sale. As Time magazine notes, this allows the researchers to "avoid a bias that often plagues reviews of previous research: the tendency for conclusive positive results to be published, sometimes more than once, and thus over-represented, while mediocre results can be ignored or even swept under the rug.""
A Link to the full article.
http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2008/...d_placebos.php
I think the way medication being handed out like candy is fucking nuts. Doctors don't even really want to do their jobs, just fill out prescription forms and get as many patients in a day as possible. Plus I can guarantee these pharm companies give doctors and hospitals kick back for prescribing their shit.