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Depressed people prefer medication

AMERICANS prefer drugs to analysis for depression, with nearly 80 percent taking a pill for the condition, Consumer Reports said yesterday.

The most popular class of drugs remain the so-called SSRIs such as Prozac, the group found.

People found newer, pricier antidepressants less desirable because of side effects.

Patients benefited just as much from therapy - almost any kind of therapy, the consumer group found in its survey of 1,500 readers.

Those surveyed said they improved just as much after seven or more sessions of talk therapy as if they took drugs and it did not matter if the therapist was a psychiatrist, psychologist or social worker.

Nearly 80 percent of people who had been diagnosed with depression or anxiety were prescribed antidepressants.

Patients were happiest with the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs, a class that includes Prozac.

People complained of more side effects from serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors or SNRIs, a newer, often dearer antidepressant.

 

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