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- Most depression treatments don't work quickly and are meant to be taken for long periods of time.
- Sage Therapeutics is developing a fast-acting drug that patients take for two weeks.
- Dr. Laura Gault told Insider that psychiatry is on the cusp of having new and better medicines.
Years ago, Big Pharma had all but left psychiatry behind. Having undertaken large, disappointing failed trials they had hoped would lead to new and profitable treatments, big companies folded up their ambitious plans.