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The influence of paid opinion leaders on the prescribing of antidepressants in the UK
A former NHS psychiatrist has submitted two rapid responses to the BMJ (British Medical Journal) in relation to this published letter : Reversing the rate of antidepressant prescribing. The first response begins: “I see that there have been a number of responses to this letter: Reversing the rate…
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Conflicts of interest in clinical guidelines, advisory committee reports, opinion pieces, and narrative reviews: associations with recommendations
“This study has been published in the Cochrane Database Syst Rev. The abstract says: “Background Treatment and diagnostic recommendations are often made in clinical guidelines, reports from advisory committee meetings, opinion pieces such as editorials, and narrative reviews. Quite often, the…
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Psychiatry overwhelmed by referrals for ‘normal emotions’
Rapid Response: No good argument for treating mild depression with antidepressants
A response – published in the British Medical Journal – to the argument put forward by Jauhar et al who support the current scale of antidepressant prescribing, including for mild conditions, and for those provoked by social and economic conditions:…
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ADHD Tests Lead to Mass Overdiagnosis, Researchers Warn
STAR*D Dethroned?
“Since 2006, STAR*D stands out as an icon guiding treatment decisions of major depressive disorder. But what if it is broken?“ This article by Dr. John J. Miller has been published in Psychiatric Times. It begins: “In the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD),…
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Overdiagnosis in Psychiatry: How Modern Psychiatry Lost Its Way While Creating a Diagnosis for Almost All of Life’s Misfortunes
The Rise and Fall of the Age of Psychopharmacology
General psychiatry, still in no-man’s land after all these years
