article_snippet.sent: Marketing of SSRI drugs like Prozac suggested that the success of so-called SSRI drugs – which include Prozac and Seroxat – was based on the ‘marketing of a myth’.
article_snippet.sent: Pictured is Prozac, one commonly prescribed  SSRI .
article_snippet.sent: The emergence of these serotonin reuptake inhibiting (SSRI) drugs in the late 1980s came after concerns about tranquilliser use to treat depression.
article_snippet.sent: Even though they were weaker than old-style tricyclic antidepressants, they took off because of the idea that SSRIs restored serotonin levels to normal,
article_snippet.sent: Professor Sir Simon Wessely, President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said: ‘That SSRIs are helpful in depression, together with psychological treatments, is established. 
article_snippet.sent: How SSRIs do this is not.
article_snippet.sent: ‘Most important of all, SSRIs are safer if taken in overdose than the older tricyclics.
article_snippet.sent: Professor David Taylor, Director of Pharmacy and Pathology and Head of Pharmaceutical Sciences Clinical Academic Group, King’s Health Partners, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, said: ‘Professor Healy makes a forceful but poorly supported argument against something which doesn’t and has never really existed: the idea that SSRIs
article_snippet.sent: Researchers and psychiatrists alike know that SSRIs are effective in a number of disorders but no one is sure exactly how Researchers and psychiatrists alike work.
article_snippet.sent: ‘Professor Healy Professor Healy fails to mention that SSRIs supplanted earlier tricyclics largely because of SSRIs relative safety in overdose,
article_snippet.sent: In the real world of the clinic, SSRIs are undeniably effective in treating individuals with major depression. '
article_snippet.sent: SSRIs have become the first line treatment of choice because SSRIs have fewer troublesome side-effects than SSRIs predecessors, and are safer in overdose.
article_snippet.sent: ‘Professor Healy has previously claimed that SSRIs cause dependence or provoke suicide.
article_snippet.sent: ‘The risk of suicide from untreated depression is much greater than the risk of treating The risk of suicide from untreated depression with antidepressants, and yes, this includes SSRIs.
highlights_snippet.sent: Marketing of SSRI drugs like Prozac has been 'based on a myth', Marketing of SSRI drugs like Prozac claims .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Experts refute Marketing of SSRI drugs like Prozac claims saying 'SSRIs work in the real world of the clinic' 