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2018年2月8日—Thousandsofpeoplewithpost-traumaticstressdisorderhavetakenthedrugprazosintoeasethenightmaresanddisturbancesthatstalktheir ...

Thousands of people with post-traumatic stress disorder have taken the drug prazosin to ease the nightmares and disturbances that stalk their sleep.

Numerous[1] studies[2] have shown the drug to be effective at controlling those episodes. But a team of researchers from the Department of Veterans Affairs, seeking to collect more evidence, set out to study the sustained effectiveness of the treatment. They organized a large, lengthy, multisite trial—the most rigorous type of trial.

The drug was no better than a placebo.

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The trial “seemed lik...