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AN ANTI-SHOPPING PILL Drug companies are always alert for new and profitable uses for their products, and now Forest Laboratories reports--just in time for the holidays--that its antidepressant Celexa is effective against compulsive-shopping disorders. Shop-till-you-drop seems to be a real syndrome; sufferers consumed by the need to buy are often plunged into debt as a result. Now research financed by Forest shows that within three months of taking Celexa, nearly 80% of the 21 patients studied experienced improved symptoms.
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