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Since a 5 year marketing campaign in the 1990s the prescribing of antidepressants has risen year on year. The marketing promoted the idea that antidepressants were “safe and effective” alongside a key message that there will be No difficulty in stopping them.
What is shared here is an archive of a range of material on antidepressants
Millie Kieve: “I have been communicating with Professor Appleby for 10 years, to try to have the well recorded risk of suicidal feelings due to prescribed drugs or withdrawal effects, … Continue reading Ten years of communication with Professor Appleby
You may read this title and wonder who said it? If you have come across my blog before it would be reasonable to consider that it was said by me! … Continue reading “Excessive claims by drug firms”
The REDUCE Trial is open access and can be read here. I submitted the following response hoping that it would be published by JAMA Psychiatry: Comment on: Internet and Telephone … Continue reading REDUCED
There are a number of high profile psychiatrists on social media. Many years ago one of them was described on Twitter as ‘The Poster Boy for British Psychiatry’. A further … Continue reading “Not a trustworthy source of info on me”
This Wednesday, Professor John Krystal, Yale University, has been invited by BAP to give this talk: ‘Linking depression pathophysiology to the mechanism of action of ketamine and “next generation” treatments’ … Continue reading BAP Summer Meeting 2024: Guest Lecture
The REDUCE Trial is open access and can be read here. The following comments have been published on the associated JAMA web-page and are shared below: I have submitted the … Continue reading Comments on the REDUCE Trial
Ahead of the forthcoming Summer Meeting of the British Association for Psychopharmacology [BAP], Professor Catherine Harmer of Oxford University*, said: “I do think the BAP has a really important role … Continue reading “BAP has a really important role”
May 2021: The above response was made by Professor Carmine Pariante to this question: “Could the immune response be triggered by a reaction to antidepressants?” July 2024: The Wellcome Trust … Continue reading Carmine Pariante: “This question is very difficult to disentangle”