Diet Pills
and Health: Depression
Diet Pills and Depression
Prescription Diet Pills Linked to Depression
A variety of drugs used to assist with weight loss have been implicated
in the precipitation or induction of depression type disorders. This is
true of a large number of phenylethylamine agents possessing psychostimulant
properties, non-phenylethylamine psychostimulants (e.g., caffeine) and
the serotonergic agent, fenfluramine.
Meridia and Xenical Diet Pills
There is, as yet, no substantial evidence linking the more modern prescription
diet pills sibutramine (Meridia) and orlistat (Xenical), to the aetiology
of major depression. Nevertheless, when these prescription diet pills
are used, major depression will continue to be an important clinical consideration
because of the elevated frequency with which major depression occurs in
obese patients, the contribution that major depression may make to poor
outcomes in non-pharmacological weight loss treatment and because of the
interplay between symptoms of depression and weight loss treatment.
Source: Scott B Patten, 2002 Ashley Publishing.
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