being and becoming in the world
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
On the 16th June this letter was sent to the President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists [the letter can also be read in full below]. It took 2 months … Continue reading 3 months on: still no response from the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Advert in the Sunday Independent (Dublin) – 29 September 2002
Book review: The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines Marion Brown British Journal of General Practice 2024; 74 (746): 397-398.
Fiona Godlee’s ‘final choice‘, after 17 years as the BMJ’s Editor-in-Chief, was to remind the healthcare and scientific community how important it is to speak truth to power. Fiona Godlee … Continue reading My final choice: speaking truth to power
In my dictionary I find this definition of ‘blot’: On learning that GSK will resume paying doctors to promote its drugs after a “policy U turn”, Fiona Godlee, Editor in … Continue reading Dr Fiona Godlee on Paid Opinion Leaders
In her own words: Included in the AFTERWORDS of this memoir:
22 March 2018: Two years to the day, from the release of the outcome of the public consultation on my petition, I returned to the Scottish Parliament to make a … Continue reading Open your ears, listen, let the people petition and be heard
Professor Robert Howard on stopping psychotropics, 21 July 2024. This view by a professional suggests that problems/difficulties coming off psychotropics relate to the patient and not the drug. I am … Continue reading A professional’s view