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Politicians, experts, and patient representatives call for the UK government to reverse the rate of antidepressant prescribing

We, a group of medical professionals, researchers, patient representatives, and politicians, call for the UK government to commit to a reversal in the rate of prescribing of antidepressants.

Over the past decade, antidepressant prescriptions have almost doubled in England, rising from 47.3 million in 2011 to 85.6 million in 2022-23. Over 8.6 million adults in England are now prescribed them annually (nearly 20% of adults),1 with prescriptions set to rise over the next decade. In addition, the average duration of time for which a person takes an antidepressant has doubled between the mid-2000s and 2017, with around half of patients now classed as long term users.2 Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland have similar rates of antidepressant prescribing.

Rising long term use is associated with many adverse effects, including weight gain, sexual dysfunction, bleeding, falls, and poorer long term outcomes for some. Withdrawal effects are experienced by around half of patients, w ....

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Insane Medicine, Chapter 10: The Paradigm Shift Is Inevitable


Insane Medicine, Chapter 10: The Paradigm Shift Is Inevitable
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Editor’s Note: Over the course of several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Sami Timimi’s book, Insane Medicine
 (available for purchase 
In 1961, an Italian psychiatrist called Franco Basaglia started refusing to bind patients to their beds in the Lunatic Asylum of Gorizia. He resisted the established methods of the time and began what is probably the single biggest revolution in modern mental health care that we have so far witnessed.
Basaglia had been revolted by what he observed as the conventional regime of institutional “care” in Italy at the time (not that different to what was common across Europe too): locked doors, only partly successful in muffling the weeping and screams of the patients, and institutional responses to human suffering that included physical restraint, straitjackets, ice packs, bed ties, isolation rooms, ECT, and insulin-coma shock ....

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