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Report from the latest meeting of the APPG for Prescribed Drug Dependence

Dr James Davies writes: On Wednesday 11th May, CEP brought into the heart of Westminster some of the leading figures in critical psychiatry to discuss the link between rising mental health disability claims and rising psychiatric prescriptions. Hosted by the All Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence, for which CEP provides the secretariat, the event […]

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Full text of CEP members’ letter to The Lancet Psychiatry in response to article by Nutt et al

David Nutt and colleagues1 represent a brand of psychiatry that wishes to keep its eyes firmly shut when evidence of harms and lack of effectiveness of favoured biological treatments are found. It is therefore unsurprising they take issue with the Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry for publicising evidence that rarely gets discussed; evidence that would enable people […]

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CEP members respond to David Nutt and colleagues in letter to The Lancet Psychiatry

The Lancet Psychiatry today published a letter from members of the Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry.  The letter is a response to a previous article in The Lancet Psychiatry entitled “Attacks on antidepressants: signs of deep-seated stigma?” which was contributed by Professor David Nutt, Professor Guy Goodwin and others. CEP’s letter can be seen here (no […]

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Peter Gøtzsche responds to criticism from Nutt et al in The Lancet

Professor Peter Gøtzsche has today published an article in The Lancet entitled: ‘Why I think antidepressants cause more harm than good’. It was written in response to an earlier piece by Professor David Nutt, Professor Guy Goodwin and others under the heading: ‘Attacks on antidepressants: signs of deep-seated stigma?’ Gøtzsche’s article can be read here: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(14)70280-9/fulltext?_eventId=login […]

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Paul Brett

VIDEO: Paul’s recovery from antidepressants

Paul describes how a virus led to a prescription for Prozac and other antidepressants. He ended up on Effexor and spent over four years in horrific withdrawal from the drugs, leading to the loss of his career and the disruption of almost every other aspect of his life.

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