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Oplysning af folket om antidepressiva og andre psykofarmaka uden kognitiv dissonans

Af Anders Sørensen, cand.psych. og ph.d.-studerende Det Nordiske Cochrane Center I starten af februar bragte medierne historien om, hvordan den antidepressive medicin, som indtages dagligt af flere hundrede tusinde danskere og flere hundrede millioner mennesker på verdensplan, slet ikke virker efter hensigten (1, 2). Stik imod hvad man skulle forvente af noget betegnet som ”medicin”, …

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Antidepressants double harms related to suicide and violence in healthy adults

The first ever review of trials of antidepressants taken by healthy adults with no signs of a mental disorder has established that antidepressants doubled the harms related to suicide and violence. The analysis, published by researchers from the Nordic Cochrane Centre in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, was undertaken because the harms …

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Drug consumption in psychiatry is harmful

Translation of two articles published in Danish newspaper Politiken 30 August 2015 Politiken Sunday, 30 August 2015 Front page By Lars Igum Rasmussen Professor: Drug consumption in psychiatry is harmful The consumption of drugs is “insanely high,” warns known professor. It should be substantially reduced since the drugs do more harm than good, he says. …

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Launching a war on psychiatric drugs

Prescription pills are Britain’s third biggest killer: Side-effects of drugs taken for insomnia and anxiety kill thousands. Why do doctors hand them out like Smarties? 80 million prescriptions for psychiatric drugs are written in UK every year  Psychiatric drugs are the third major killer after heart disease and cancer  Professor Gøtzsche reveals the scale of …

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