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Antidepressant drugs are ‘immensely harmful’ and responsible for thousands of deaths, claims leading scientist

Friday, May 15, 2015 12:50
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A leading scientist has claimed that antidepressant drugs are responsible for over half a million deaths of people aged over 65 every year.

Peter Gotzsche, a Danish medical researcher, made the claims in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) in which he argued that long-term use of psychotropic drugs are “immensely harmful”.

“Given their lack of benefit, I estimate we could stop almost all psychotropic drugs without causing harm – by dropping all antidepressants, ADHD drugs, and dementia drugs,” Gotzsche wrote …. http://www.mirror.co.uk




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