SSRI DISCUSSION FORUM: so when a drug is licensed it is actually still on trial - Breckenridge

SSRI DISCUSSION FORUM: so when a drug is licensed it is actually still on trial - Breckenridge: "http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.com/pa/cm200405/cmselect/cmhealth/42/42.pdf


The Influence of the
Pharmaceutical
Industry
Fourth Report of Session 2004–05


John Austin: But up until 2003, both the MHRA and the manufacturers were saying
that the incidence of withdrawal reactions was rare and that has now been revised, so
10 years after, when all this surveillance has been going on, that estimate has been
raised to 25 to 30 per cent.

Professor Sir Alasdair Breckenridge: When a drug is licensed and for the first few
years until there is good clinical trial evidence, one cannot say what the incidence of
an adverse reaction is. You cannot tell that from yellow card reports ... 266"


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