When things go catastrophically wrong, like major failures linked to antidepressant drugs, psychiatric spin doctors make statements that include the mantra ‘lessons need to be learned.’ But when considering year-on-year failures linked to the drugs, prescribers aren’t learning any lessons. Figures from the Office for National Statistics reveal deaths related to drug…
In April, a post showed how the unscientific ADHD diagnosis was creating increased drug sales. In that post when reviewing the England-wide NHS prescription data for the full year of 2022, the following was noted: Antidepressants marked their usual steady rise at 3.3%, which is not much different than the last 15…
In the last few weeks, the mainstream media has come out in a full court press to debunk, or at the very least cast doubt on, the serotonin theory of depression. The notion of a 'chemical imbalance in the brain' has been given a wide berth by those who previously used it…
For decades, people have been prescribed antidepressants based on the belief that the psychiatric drugs could do something to resolve a so-called 'chemical imbalance in the brain'. Psychiatrists, pharmaceutical companies and their spin doctors used the idea to convince people there might be something useful in taking them, while at the same…
In order to sell the new psychotropic drugs, psychiatrists and pharmaceutical companies came up with a marketing campaign that a chemical imbalance in the brain causes mental disorders and that drugs correct that imbalance. The marketing hype was repeated so often that millions of people around the world were led to believe…