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The BU$H Effect And Medical WMDs

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  1. ` ` ` ` Sunday, April 18, 2004; Page A01 ` Washington Post `
    Antidepressant Use in Children Soars Despite Efficacy Doubts
    ` By Shankar Vedantam ` "The explosion in antidepressant use
    occurred even though the vast majority of clinical trials
    have failed to prove that the medicines help depressed
    children." ` "...drugs that have never shown benefits for
    depress- ed children in clinical trials have some of the
    largest increases in prescription rates." ` No problem! The
    Bu$h effect steps in to save the day. ` "[Jon Jureidini, a
    child psychiatrist at the Women's and Children's Hospital in
    Adelaide, South Australia] said that doctors had a subtle --
    but powerful -- bias: "There's this kind of view that we all
    know antidepressants work and if the research doesn't
    support that, there must be something wrong with the
    research." ` washingtonpost.comA20624
    2004Apr17?language=printer ` ` ` `

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