Suicide prevention: a timeline of missed opportunities

This film presents missed opportunities, in particular the potential role of prescribed medications as risk factors for suicide . This film presents a timeline from 2002 to 2019 in relation … Continue reading Suicide prevention: a timeline of missed opportunities

outside the circle of listeners

In relation to the potential for psychiatric drugs to cause harm, the psychiatric establishment has kept itself outside the circle of listeners. This, my latest short film, is an artistic … Continue reading outside the circle of listeners

Over-certainty and over-confidence

An unedited paragraph from the Newcastle Journal, Wednesday 25 April 1990. The Cumberlege Review of 2020, concluded that, in terms of patient safety, this matter cannot be ignored.

Déjà vu

The recent publication in JAMA Psychiatry: Incidence and Nature of Antidepressant Discontinuation Symptoms: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis made me feel that I had been here before. Once again, a … Continue reading Déjà vu

Parliamentary Question

QUESTION: Lord Kamall To ask His Majesty’s Government how many ‘yellow card’ reports of suicide after taking antidepressants were received by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency in 2015 … Continue reading Parliamentary Question