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Antidepressants Are Major Drivers of Suicides (opens the original)
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The history of the newer antidepressant drugs is a remarkable demonstration of how fraud in the randomised trials and financial corruption have killed patients.1 For almost 40 years, the psychiatric leaders have denied that antidepressants increase suicides despite overwhelming evidence that this is correct.1,2 Prozac (fluoxetine) was the first SSRI (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor) that came into widespread use. It was approved by the FDA in December 1987 for depression in adults. Eli Li
The Epidemic of Depression Diagnoses and Antidepressant Prescribing (opens the original)
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Psychiatrist Derek Summerfield is passionate about social justice and about avoiding torture.1 Derek and I—even though I am a specialist in internal medicine, not a psychiatrist—are both members of the Critical Psychiatry Network based in the UK, which strives to improve psychiatry and to make it less harmful. Derek wrote an eloquent article in the BMJ eight years ago about the epidemic of depression diagnoses,2 which is still highly relevant. Nothing has changed for the better. I therefore repr
Antidepressants Can Change Peaceful Citizens into Killers (opens the original)
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One of the best guarded secrets in psychiatry is that antidepressants increase the risk of violence, including suicide and homicide. It took 13 years, after having denied it at a hearing,1 before the FDA admitted in 2004 in a black box warning, updated in 2006, that children, adolescents and young adults taking antidepressants have an increased risk of suicidal thinking and behaviour. By including events occurring in the follow-up period after the randomised phase in the trials was over, two res
A Story of Bad Science: How Defenders of Antidepressant Efficacy Make Their Case (opens the original)
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As you will see in this article, antidepressants don’t work for depression despite their misleading name. The story psychiatric leaders have told to the public is the opposite, that these drugs are highly effective. I shall debunk this claim and give advice about the drugs that is in accordance with the science. The first SSRI (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor) that came into widespread use was fluoxetine (Prozac), approved by the FDA in December 1987 for depression in adults. The drug is
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