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A short while later, Irving was handed another leaked study. This one struck me especially hard when I read about it, because it was talking directly about a situation I had been in. Not long before I started taking Seroxat (also marketed as Paxil), the drug's manufacturers, GlaxoSmithKline, had secretly conducted three clinical trials into whether Seroxat should be given to teenagers like me. One study discovered the placebo worked better; one study showed no difference between the drug and placebo; and one study showed mixed results. None showed a success. Yet, in a partial publication of the results, they announced: "Paroxetine [another name for the drug] is effective for major depression in adolescents."