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By Hole Ousia Posted on May 10, 2017January 30, 2023

Submission on PE1651: Prescribed drug dependence and withdrawal

As an NHS Psychiatrist who has worked in Scotland as a Consultant for over 15 years I want to offer my full support for this petition. Recently at a Cross … Continue reading Submission on PE1651: Prescribed drug dependence and withdrawal

Categories: Antidepressant prescribing, Depression, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Narrative medicine, NHS Hospitality Registers, NHS Scotland, Pharmaceutical industry and Medical Education, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Stigma, suicide, Sunshine Act for Scotland, Two culturesTags: antidepressants, Antiquary, As an NHS Psychiatrist who has worked in Scotland as a Consultant for over 15 years I want to offer my full support for this petition, biases, biological deteminism, compelling evidence, conservative prescribing, depression is under-recognised across all age groups, Dr David Christmas, Dr Peter Gordon, Dr Peter J Gordon, Drug marketing: Key opinion leaders: independent experts or drug representatives in disguise?, evidence based, experience, Experts, Hole Ousia, How Guidelines can fail us, I was concerned at that time that SIGN guidelines lacked in necessary governance regarding financial conflicts of interest, input from experts who have significant financially-based vested interests, kept in the dark, Key Information on the use of antidepressants, maintenance treatment has a good risk-benefit ratio, Marion Brown, my profession in Scotland seems to resist evidence of experience and at the same time prioritise the opinions of experts, n honest consideration that for many medications we cannot be certain of long-term effects, NHS Scotland, PE01651, PE1493 by Peter John Gordon on a Sunshine Act for Scotland. To close the petition, PE1651, Peter Gordon, Potential for Expert Bias (one), Potential for Expert Bias (two), Prescribed drug dependence and withdrawal, Prescribed harm, Psychiatry in Fabula, Realistic Medicine, rebel antiquary, Recently at a Cross Party Group meeting held at the Scottish Parliament it was stated, Scotland, Scottish Government, Scottish Parliament, Scottish Psychiatry has been traditionally orientated around biological determinants of mental health, SIGN guidelines: transparency and objectivity, Social maverick, Submission on PE1651: Prescribed drug dependence and withdrawal, Sunshine Act, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, The Scottish Government [Prescribed harm], withdrawal

By Hole Ousia Posted on May 11, 2015April 21, 2023

“Conservative prescribing”

This editorial, an opinion piece by Prof David Healy, was recently published in the BMJ. In this post I intend to explore the arguments made around whether “chemical imbalance” was … Continue reading “Conservative prescribing”

Categories: Antidepressant prescribing, British Medical Journal, Depression, History of medicine, Medical humanities, Medical writings, NHS Hospitality Registers, NHS Scotland, Pharmaceutical industry and Medical Education, Psychiatry, Sunshine Act for ScotlandTags: 2 weeks, a letter in the times, A timeline following a letter in the Times, A timeline of missed opportunities, a conflation between marketing and education, antidepressant, antidepressants, Antiquary, Appropriateness of antidepressant prescribing, Are antidepressant overprescribed?, Are antidepressants overprescribed, Are antidepressants overprescribed? No, ‘Evidence Based Medicine’ or ‘Industry Biased Medicine’, BMJ, BMJ 2013;346:f190, BMJ 2015;350:h1771, British Journal of General Practice, British Psychiatry: Marketing as 'Education', chemical imbalance, chemical imbalance theory, conservative prescribing, Defeat Depression Campaign, Dr Crichton was supporting the argument of Professor Ian C Reid that antidepressants are NOT over-prescribed, Dr Peter Gordon, Drug marketing: Key opinion leaders: independent experts or drug representatives in disguise?, expert reaction to editorial on serotonin and depression, Experts, experts state that antidepressant prescribing in the western world is "conservative", good to be reminded of this, head to head, Healy does a diservice to psychiatrists, Hippocrates, Hole Ousia, hypotheses, idea that SSRIs correct an imbalance in the brain never really existed, It is always worth remembering Gordon Bennett when considering the sources of information that seek to inform us, Joanna Moncrieff, Lay people's attitudes to the Defeat Depression Campaign, let's fix the chemical imbalance first, LILLY Pharmaceuticals: the Defeat Depression Campaign, Lundbeck, marketing has no place in education, Moncrieff, My career began with the “Defeat Depression Campaign”, my own window, myths, Narrative Controllers, Overdiagnosis: when good intentions meet vested interests, paid opinion leaders, paid opinion leaders are a blot on medicine’s integrity and we should make them a thing of the past, PE1651, Peter Gordon, Philip J Cowen, Prescribed drug dependence and withdrawal, Prescribed harm, Prof Ian Reid: chronic prescribing of antidepressants represents an "improvement in practice", Prof Stephen Stahl, Professor Ian Reid, Professor John Crichton, Professor of Psychopharmacology, Professor Sir Simon Wessely, Psychiatry in Fabula, Realistic Medicine, Realistic Psychiatry, rebel antiquary, Science Media Centre, Science Media Centre and transparency: where is the leadership?, Science Media Centre Promotes Corporate Views of Science, scientific pluralism, Scotland, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, Serotonin and depressin: the marketing of a myth, Serotonin and depression, SMC, Social maverick, SSRI, SSRIs, Stahl diagrams, Sunovion, The Antiquary, The Chemical Imbalance, The defeat depression campaign, The Defeat Depression Campaign was a five-year national campaign launched in January 1992 by the Royal College of Psychiatrists in association with the Royal College of General Practitioners, The Defeat Depression Campaign: Interim results and future directions, The impact of the Defeat Depression Campaign, the marketing of a myth, The Marking of the Defeat Depression Campaign, The Narrative Controllers, the old serotonin model, The Rebel Antiquary, the role of fear in overdiagnosis and overtreatment, The Science Media Centre, the sensible reaction, the value of experience, The [generally hidden] place of big business, there is compelling evidence of benefit for maintenance treatment for antidepressants for at least 3 years, timeline of responses made by influential UK doctors, University of Oxford, Vested Interests, What duration of treatment with antidepressants is appropriate?, When good intentions meet vested interests, Where Gordon Bennett meets the headlines, where science meets the headlines, why is it so difficult to stop psychiatric medication?

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