PROZAC FLUOXETINE POISON? –
Nov. 22, 2025 – A medication meant to lift spirits may be falling flat. An antidepressant commonly prescribed to children and teens may not be as effective as once thought. Now, some experts are raising doubts about whether young people with depression should be taking the drug at all! Better known by its brand name Prozac, fluoxetine is one of the most widely prescribed antidepressants for children and adolescents in the US.
It’s recommended as a first-line pharmacological treatment for pediatric depression and is the only antidepressant approved by the FDA for treating major depressive disorder in children as young as 8. But when the researchers analyzed the data, they found that fluoxetine appeared not to provide meaningful benefits for reducing depressive symptoms in children.
In fact, the study authors told The Guardian that the medication was supposedly “no better than placebo” at relieving depression.
