This description of the dissemination of the 5-year-long-Pharma-sponsored ‘Defeat Depression Campaign’ comes from a letter made in response to concerns raised by fellow psychiatrists [Psychiatric Bulletin, September 1994].
Nearly three decades later, and neither the Royal College of Psychiatrists nor the Royal College of General Practitioners have made available any of the surviving archive of this extensive campaign.
However, here is just a little of what we read in the papers around the time of this Campaign:
13 April 1988, Cambridge Daily News:
30 January 1992: Newcastle Evening Chronicle:
12 March 1992, Birmingham Daily Post:
12 March 1992, Birmingham Daily Post:
12 March 1992, Birmingham Daily Post:
12 March 1992, Birmingham Daily Post:
11 May 1993, Liverpool Echo:
11 May 1993, Liverpool Echo:
13 May 1993, Daily Record:
2 Nov 1993, Irish Independent:
10 Nov 1993, Irish Independent:
9 December 1993, Grimsby Daily Telegraph:
10 Dec 1993, Aberdeen Press and Journal:
4 Jan 1994, Newcastle Evening Chronicle:
27 Feb 1994, Sunday Tribune:
2 March 1994, Uxbridge and Drayton Gazette:
3 March 1994, Gatwick Mirror:
4 March 1994, Cambridge Daily News:
7 March 1994, Grimsby Daily Telegraph:
9 March 1994, Grimsby Daily Telegraph:
10 March 1994, Reading Evening Post:
11 March 1994, Chester Chronicle:
14 April 1994, Daily Record:
4 June 1994, Huddersfield Daily Examiner:
16 Sept 1994, Leicester Daily Mercury:
29 March 1995, Leicester Daily Mercury:
7 April 1995, Chester Chronicle:
7 April 1995, Chester Chronicle:
8 April 1995, Westminster Pimlico News:
14 April 1995, Great Barr Observer:
14 April 1995, Sutton Coldfield Observer:
20 April 1995, Liverpool Echo:
21 July 1995, Leicester Daily Mercury:
3 Oct 1995, Birmingham Daily Post:
19 April 1996, Perthshire Advertiser:
23 June 1996, Sunday Life:
6 August 1996, Liverpool Echo:
