Tom Cruise is on Oprah TV again! Was he right and Brooke Shields and Matt Lauer wrong?

Posted on April 28, 2008
Categories: Lifestyle, Other News.

Tom Cruise is back on Oprah again, three years after he has been jumping on the couch. Who could forget it? Tom Cruise, jumping up on talk show queen Oprah Winfrey’s couch and proclaiming his love for Katie Holmes in 2005. We tell you on this site when the show airs.Oprah will interview Tom Cruise on May 2 from his home in Colorado. They will discuss “his family, his life and the future.” Then, on Monday May 5, he is headed to Chicago and Oprah’s studio where he will tape a new show celebrating 25 years of his Hollywood films since his breakout role in “Risky Business.”

He caught a lot of critics for his criticism of psych-drug treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

But HERE IS THE KICKER:

There is no evidence that drug treatments or the majority of non-drug treatments work on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to a major review of the medical literature on the topic.

A committee of the Institute of Medicine reviewed the literature on PTSD treatments upon the request of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Initially, the committee identified 2,771 studies, but eventually reviewed only 90 of these. The trials reviewed included randomized controlled trials, controlled psychotherapy trials and placebo-controlled pharmacotherapy trials.

Of the 90 studies, exposure therapy was the only treatment that was supported by evidence of its effectiveness. All other tested treatments had insufficient evidence to support them.

“These therapies may or may not be effective - we just don’t know in the absence of good data,” said committee chair Alfred O. Berg.

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