A physician is deciding whether to prescribe one of the older tricyclic antidepressant drugs or one of the newer, more recently developed ones. Fortunately, a medical journal just published a review of the drugs. What is the likely conclusion?
A) There are no difference other than cost between the two groups of drugs.
B) The newer drugs are more effective, work faster, and have fewer side effects.
C) The older drugs have a higher degree of effectiveness but they have some troubling side effects.
D) The two types of drugs do not differ in effectiveness, although the newer ones have fewer side effects.
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