Tag: ghostwritten

Lexapro for Children: Drug With No Meaningful Benefit and Increased Suicidality...

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Response and remission rates were the same in the drug versus placebo groups, and Lexapro increased suicidality sixfold.

Researchers Pressure Psychiatric Journal to Retract Misleading Celexa Study

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In 2004, the American Psychiatric Association published a paper supporting the use of the antidepressant citalopram (Celexa) in children and teens. After reanalyzing the...

Interview: Researchers Deconstruct Ghostwritten Industry Trial for Antidepressant

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Researchers, Jon Jureidini, Jay Amsterdam and Leemon McHenry, have taken a closer look at the data from a randomized control trial of citalopram (Celexa) that was ghostwritten and then used by the manufacturers to support claims of the drug’s efficacy and safety in the treatment of child and adolescent depression. To get the background on this story, we connected with Dr. Leemon McHenry, an investigator in this study and a lecturer in philosophy at California State University, Northridge.