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October 14, 2025

Journal Faces Lawsuit Over Discredited Study Used by GSK to Market Dangerous Antidepressant to Teens

The study, published by the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in its journal, JAACAP, actually found that paroxetine (Paxil) was neither safe nor effective. Internal documents later showed that GSK hired a PR firm to ghostwrite the article, cherry-picking data and recruiting 20 co-authors to lend credibility. The company then used the paper to market Paxil to doctors.

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