Quack doctors blame their reckless, pseudo-scientific negligence on… [checks notes]… Iran.

A single clinical trial of 40 children in Iran, published in 2006, might have wrongly swayed medical evidence in favour of using Prozac (fluoxetine) to treat depression in children and adolescents, a group of researchers say.

  • Tiral@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    It worked for me. I don’t think you should be on it permanently, but it does help.

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      3 days ago

      Yes, as a temporary means there’s no problem. It’s the idea that depression can be treated with drugs, when depression is caused by real life problems that must be addressed, often due to unsafe caregivers.