Total pharma quackery: Antidepressant drugs prescribed for nearly everything… even conditions they don’t work for

Sunday, June 5, 2016
By Paul Martin

by: Isabelle Z.
NaturalNews.com
Sunday, June 05, 2016

While their name implies that their sole purpose is the treatment of depression, it turns out that doctors are prescribing antidepressants for an assortment of other medical problems as well. In fact, a Canadian study recently found that just over half of antidepressant prescriptions written by Quebec doctors in the last ten years were for depression. This begs the question: What were the other nearly 50 percent of antidepressant prescriptions for?

Antidepressants are also routinely given for insomnia, fibromyalgia, obsessive-compulsive disorders, chronic pain, migraines and panic disorders. However, doctors also prescribe them for a number of “off-label” conditions that they have not been approved to treat. The researchers discovered that two thirds of antidepressant prescriptions for problems other than depression were written for off-label – and thereby unapproved – purposes.

This could help explain why antidepressant use in the U.S. skyrocketed by 400 percent in the years from 1988 to 1994 and 2005 to 2008. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that 11 percent of adults and teenagers now take antidepressants, so this is far from a small problem.

Off-label prescriptions leading to concern among experts

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