Last year, GSK settled a lawsuit over Seroxat with Eliot Spitzer, New York's attorney-general.
Panorama first raised concerns about the safety of the drug Seroxat in October 2002.
The OFT alleged that the pharmaceutical giant paid rivals to delay the release their own versions of GSK's Seroxat treatment.
The OFT alleges that the pharmaceutical giant paid rivals to delay the release their own versions of GSK's Seroxat treatment.
Alpharma, Generics UK and Norton Healthcare all received money not to enter the market with their copies of Seroxat, it said.
In these investigations, reporter Shelley Jofre looked into the safety of the anti-depressant drug Seroxat revealing its sometimes dark side effects.
The generic drug makers were attempting to supply the UK market with their versions of paroxetine, which GlaxoSmithKline brands as Seroxat, the OFT said.
The thousands of emails sent by viewers following the broadcast of The Secrets of Seroxat drove the second film Seroxat: E-mails from the Edge.
Dr Herxheimer, aided by Charles Medawar, from Social Audit Ltd, which has campaigned on antidepressant safety, examined more than 1, 000 yellow card reports about Seroxat.
Mark Harvey, solicitor for the action group representing Seroxat patients, said more and more people are coming forward, claiming they cannot come off the drug.
Dr Andrew Herxheimer wanted to test whether, in the case of Seroxat, a widely-used antidepressant, the scheme was set up to respond to reports of side-effects.
The study - which focused primarily on Seroxat - looked at clinical trial data and reports of adverse effects and found possible links between SSRI antidepressants and violent behaviour.
The results showed that while Seroxat did seem to work across all types of depression, it failed to show that it was significantly more effective than a placebo pill.
The results of this trial - which has never been published, although it was orally presented in 1999 - found that children responded better to the placebo than to Seroxat.
Seroxat's manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) vigorously denied each of these claims at the time and still continued to defend its best-selling drug in two subsequent programmes that we made on the subject.
Back in October 2002, Panorama broadcast Secrets of Seroxat.
Seroxat and the other SSRI antidepressants (including Prozac, Lustral and Ciprimil) may provoke violence in a small number of people who take them, according to a paper published today on the Public Library of Science Medicine website.
Of the adverse events reported in this blinded study (where the patient, investigator and company do not know whether the patient received Seroxat or a dummy pill) only one - headache - was attributed by the independent investors to Seroxat.
In the case of study 329 although a numerical difference in adverse events was observed by the company and the study's investigators, for patients taking Seroxat compared to placebo, these findings were not, by themselves, considered clinically meaningful due to the limited number of patients involved and the fact that suicidal thinking and behaviour is a recognised symptom of the underlying disease.
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