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Tue 02 Feb 2009Exercising a new approach to depression
ANTIDEPRESSANTS are not only expensive, according to the clinical standards watchdog National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice), they are for many people no more helpful than a placebo, and should not be used as a first recourse for mild to moderate depression.
Yet at the last count, 31 million prescriptions for antidepressants were dispensed in Britain and Northern Ireland alone, in just one year.
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