AntiDepressants, Psychiatric Drugs, Psychiatrists and Big Pharma

Psychiatrists: the drug pushers

Psychiatrists: the drug pushers
Psychiatrists: the drug pushers, by @wself

Is the current epidemic of depression and hyperactivity the result of disease-mongering by the psychiatric profession and big pharma?

Does psychiatry have any credibility left at all?

The question is asked by Novelist, Journalist Will Self, who ends his post saying:

Sooner or later we will all have to wake up, smell the snake oil, and realise that while medical science may bring incalculable benefit to us, medical pseudo-science remains just as capable of advance. After all, one of the drugs that Irving Kirsch’s meta‑analysis of antidepressant trials revealed as being just as efficacious as the SSRIs was … heroin “.

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