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Global Leading Scientist Claims Antidepressant Drugs Are Deadly

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:03

Psychotropic drugs could be making depression worse

 on 14th May 2015 @ 9.21pm

© Press Peter Gotzsche argues that the long-term affects the use of antidepressants has on us, and in particular the elderly, outweigh the benefits.

The debate over whether antidepressant drugs are safe to use has been circulating for a while now. One leading scientist has made claims that trial designs for almost all psychotropic drugs underplay the harms and overplay the benefits of them. If he is correct is there a suitable alternative out there, or were his results based on biased experiments?

Peter Gotzsche argues that the long-term affects the use of antidepressants has on us, and in particular the elderly, outweigh the benefits. What his tests uncovered was that when a patient took themselves off the anti-depressants completely, no weaning off I mean going full cold turkey, they experienced withdrawal symptoms.

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