Medications in the antidepressant category sometimes take up to 8 weeks to show any effect, if any. But the United States has approved a drug that can work in a few days.
Treatment of severe chronic depression is extremely complex. In recent decades, various drugs have been developed from tricyclic drugs in the 1950s to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in the 1970s. But they can take 4 to 8 weeks to start working, and in 30% of cases they don't work at all.
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And now the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new game-changing drug called AXS-05 . Studies show that it reduces depressive symptoms very quickly, allowing this to be achieved within a week of starting treatment. And many patients are in remission, that is, the symptoms of depression disappear completely by the second week.
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FDA approval for this twice-daily pill comes just three months after the publication of positive clinical trial results that evaluated its effectiveness against with placebo. With the new drug AXS-05, remission was observed in almost 40% of patients, and in the placebo group – just over 17%. By the way, such a high placebo effect is not unusual, pacifiers do relieve depression in a significant number of people who believe that they will work and are waiting for it. (READ MORE)