Marketing Anti-Depressants: Prozac and Paxil Introduction: The expiration of Prozac’s patent necessitates swift‚ defensive action from all companies in the SSRI industry. As generics enter the market‚ demand for more expensive‚ branded medications will fall as price sensitive consumers switch to the cheaper alternatives. Additionally‚ incident prices on consumers themselves‚ in the form of copayments‚ will rise as insurance companies pressure their constituents to switch to more cost-effective
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Running Head: Prozac Nation and Major Depression Disorder Prozac Nation and Major Depression Disorder Raquel H. Sasyn University of Houston Ms. Chastity Farr Clinical Psychology Section - 25673 April 23‚ 2010 Introduction “Prozac Nation‚” is a best-selling memoir written by Elizabeth Wurtzel in 1994. Based on Wurtzel’s stormy childhood and adolescence‚ Prozac Nation explores many topics such as major depression‚ family relations‚ and drug abuse. The story narrates Wurtzel’s life
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Prozac was the first SSRI drug to hit the market in the U.S in 1988 and by 2005‚ SSRI drugs were the most prescribed. About a dozen of SSRIs are prescribed‚ such as Paxil‚ Zoloft and Prozac. SSRIs are supposed to have fewer side effects than older antidepressants since SSRIs only increase the serotonin levels in the brain. SSRIs have many common side effects‚ including sexual side effects‚ such as a repressed libido‚ erectile dysfunction and difficult achieving orgasm‚ for men and women‚ fatigue
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use of antidepressants is useless Throughout the years‚ it seems as if more and more adolescents are being prescribed antidepressants. Instead of trying to go to therapy‚ most adolescents go for the prescription instead because their parents won’t want to pay for the costly sessions with a therapist. Two sources‚ Suicide-related events among child and adolescent patients…‚ by Teizo Kuba‚ and The dark side of antidepressants‚ by Chris Kresser really focus on the issues upon antidepressants. Antidepressant
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Do antidepressants help? The answer to the question posed is "on an individual basis". For me personally‚ the answer is no. I have tried two mainstream antidepressants and haven’t had any lasting results with either. I have been "depressed" for as long as I can remember. The trauma I experienced as a young girl and teen follows me everywhere‚ without escape. I had never been diagnosed with depression until I was eighteen. That was when the new doctor I found noticed the signs for me. Shortly after
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depression)‚ were the only available option. This all changed upon the advent of the first-generation of antidepressants. Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) were the first medication to be approved in the treatment of psychiatric illnesses. They were followed shortly thereafter by the tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) and later on in the 1970’s the closely related tetracyclic antidepressants (TeCAs). These early treatments were rife with side effects‚ the monoamine oxidase inhibitors were notorious
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The Wonder Drug “One in eight persons needs treatment for depression during his or her lifetime” (Prozac.com). Prozac is claimed as the wonder drug cure for obsessive compulsive disorder‚ depression‚ bulimia‚ and panic disorder by fixing the imbalance of chemicals in the brain. Many documented cases have been made about side effects of Prozac and how it has negatively affected many of its users. Doctors need to have more responsibility and stricter guidelines for diagnosis of adolescent
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Does cognitive-behavioral therapy work just as well as antidepressants when treating depression? How we perceive our depression is what helps to determine the type of treatment necessary. Antidepressants treat the common symptoms of depression rather than the condition while therapy helps change the thought process so the disease is cured in the end. Many studies are done to provide necessary information to what the answer to this question should be. The following articles provided studies that explained
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over antidepressants has waged on for over more than half a century. Two heads of the Department of Psychiatry in Washington University discovered that depression was just as much biological as it was physiological meaning that people with depression had an abnormal chemical make-up in the brain. This discovery increased the demand for research on methods to alter this abnormality effectively and efficiently. Thus antidepressants were created‚ sparking a psychiatric revolution. Antidepressants work
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In addition to therapy being an alternative for antidepressants‚ there is the possible substitute to a daily dosed drug‚ placebos. A placebo is a substance such as a pill or shot that doesn’t contain any medicine. Placebos are typically used in clinical trials and used as a control for the testing of a real new medication. The main reason a trial has a placebo group is to ensure that any effects that happen are actually caused by the treatment and not some other factors. Many believe that the placebo
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