Am J Psychiatry 1990; 147:507-509
Copyright © 1990 by American Psychiatric Association
Surreptitious drug use by patients in a panic disorder study
DB Clark, CB Taylor, WT Roth, C Hayward, A Ehlers, J Margraf and WS Agras
Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University Medical Center, Calif.
In a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial comparing alprazolam and
imipramine for panic disorder, serum analysis revealed that a substantial
proportion of the patients took explicitly prohibited anxiolytic
medication. Excluding these patients changed the results.