Niall McLaren on Critical Psychiatry

New diseases for old drugs.

The drug industry adapts to changing circumstances.

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Niall McLaren
May 09, 2023
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For no particular reason, the Guardian recently carried an article on withdrawal from antidepressants with the reassuring title: "‘I stopped sleeping’: the sometimes difficult path off antidepressants" Guardian, 23.04.17:. The author's reality wasn't quite so reassuring:

Six weeks after my doctor advised me to stop taking the lowest dose of desvenlafaxin…

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