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Following the broadcast of Panorama’s ‘The Antidepressant Story’, the Royal College of Psychiatrists has issued the following response: The episode of PANORAMA referred to was first aired 19 June 2023 … Continue reading RCPsych response to BBC Panorama
The following open letter was published in the BMJ on the 20th June 2023: The episode of PANORAMA referred to was first aired 19 June 2023 [please click on the … Continue reading A moral duty
The following episode on PANORAMA aired last night [please click on the image to go to i-player]: If you would like to complete an ANONYMOUS SURVEY in response to this … Continue reading A timeline following a letter in the Times
Withdrawing from antidepressants: advice for primary care was published in British Journal of General Practice in March 2023. The authors: Emilia G Palmer, Sangeetha Sornalingam, Lisa Page and Maxwell Cooper … Continue reading Withdrawing from antidepressants: advice for primary care
The above newspaper headline is from a report in the Kerryman newspaper, 27th November 2003. The report describes a “new training programme aimed at helping health service professionals to improve … Continue reading “Programme will help identify potential suicide victims”
The above paper was published in the British Journal of Psychiatry in 1994 with the support of SmithKline Beecham Ltd. What Price Depression? This is an important question. Please click … Continue reading What Price Depression?
Why in the UK do we have mass prescribing of antidepressants? Nearly 1 in 5 adults are now taking an antidepressant. It is now being asked if this is a … Continue reading Mass prescribing
On the 25 February 2018 the following letter by Professor Wendy Burn, President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists [RCPsych] and Professor David Baldwin, Chairman of the RCPsych Psychopharmacology Committee, … Continue reading Depression: pills and dependence [a timeline following a letter in the Times]