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By Snow-Leavis Posted on Nov 18, 2018November 18, 2018

‘A warning to the NHS: don’t let big pharma loose on policy’

What follows are a few extracts from this article in today’s Observer by Chris McGreal:

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Categories: Antidepressant prescribing, NHS Hospitality Registers, NHS Scotland, Pharmaceutical industry and Medical Education, Psychiatry, Sunshine Act for ScotlandTags: a blot a stain or perhaps something worse, a warning to the NHS, America, American Overdose, antidepressants, Big Pharma, Catherine Calderwood, Chris McGreal, don't let big pharma loose, FDA, Fiona Godlee, industry, Key Opinion Leaders, Marion Brown, NHS Scotland, opioid crisis, overmedicalisation, paid opinion leaders, Paul Rees, PE1493, PE1651, Peter J Gordon, petition, Prescribed drug dependence and withdrawal, Prescribed harm, Psychiatry, Realistic Medicine, Science Media Centre, Scottish Parliament, Simon Wessely, suicide, Sunshine legislation, The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, The Mental Elf, Too much Medicine, Vanessa Cameron, Wendy Burn

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