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Err on the Side of Caution…
January 23, 2008 in Access to ED Care/Treatment, anorexia, Anorexia and Depression, Anorexia Nervosa, Antidepressants and Adolescents with ED's, Behavioral Health, Big Pharma, Community Health Education, Consumer Alert, Eating Disorder Advocacy, Eating Disorder Research, Eating Disorders, ED's and Antidepressants, Empowered Families, Evidence Based Treatment for Eating Disorders, Evidence-Based Medicine, Family supported ED treatment, FDA study/clinical trials, Health, Health & Wellbeing, Health Care, Improvement of Psychological and Behavioral Treatments, Mental Health, Mental Health America, meta-analysis, Neuroscience, Neuroscience and Eating Disorders, New England Journal of Medicine, Pharmacology, Psychopharmacology, Publication bias, Research and Recovery, Science, skewed data, SSRI's and ED's | Tags: Anorexia and Depression, Antidepressants and Children/Adolescents, antidepressants and ED's, Behavioral Health, Big Pharma, Consumer Alert, Dr Turner, eating disordered, Eating Disorders, Evidence-Based Medicine, FDA studies/data, Health Care, health&science, Mental Health, MHA, NEJM, Neuroscience, Pharmacology, psychiatry, Psychopharmacology, Publication bias, research, Science, selective reporting of clinical trials, skewed data | Leave a comment
… I always say, especially when it comes to ED’s and medication- specifically anitdepressants and children/adolescents.
It’s a call that I personally feel many clinicians make way too early before steady gains in weight, and full nutrition have been sufficiently addressed, and this takes time. As parents, we see a significant change in mood with increased nutrition, as well as the opposite when our children are not eating enough or metabolizing properly during refeeding and recovery.
Of course this will be an intimately personal and individualized decision, and antidepressants, without a doubt, have helped countless numbers of inividuals from seemingly endless and needless suffering.
And you would want to have a physician who would have all the up to date, accurate, and forthright information in helping you make the best decision possible for your child, but after reading Dr Turner’s published report/study as well as the New England Journal of Medicine’s abstract about “selective reporting and clinical trials”, and “efficacy overstated for antidepressants” I’m convinced it’s vital to continue scrutinizing, as well as reseaching the use of antidepressants within the treatment of ED’s; and question why some clincians seem a tad overzealous to prescribe them.
And as some counterbalance, not completely overlooking how antidepressants have assisted many, CEO David Shern of Mental Health America shared a brief response.
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