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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

George Beaumont
George Beaumont*
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Medical and Pharmaceutical Advisory Services, Stockport
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Antidepressants, as the term is currently understood, were introduced into clinical practice in the late 1950s. The first of these was imipramine, shortly to be followed by amitriptyline and then by a series of related compounds - all chemically ‘tricyclics’. These subsequently became known as the ‘first-generation’ antidepressants; imipramine and amitriptyline in particular have since become the standards against which others have been compared.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 163 , Issue S20: The Economic Evaluation of Antidepressant Drug Therapy , July 1993 , pp. 40 - 42
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Copyright © 1993 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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