🧵 Tested short term, taken long term:.why a new antidepressant withdrawal review fails patients. As you may have seen, a new UK review of research into antidepressant withdrawal claims such symptoms are mild and brief, resolving in weeks. But it fails to address the severe,

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PS. We’ve been working with @ACE_CoalitionEd (ACE) in our response to this new review, and the work ACE is doing to petition the FDA to improve antidepressant prescribing information is crucial. Please follow them!. Also, whether you’ve seen our work before or this is the first

It’s simple: if a prescription drug is not tested long term, we can’t say it’s safe to take in the long term. You deserve better than this. We all do. 6/6

Does this look to you like health care that centers patients, or health care that centers profits? 5/6

Fail #4: The researchers have significant pharmaceutical ties, some spanning decades. Pharma ties like these are called a “conflict of interest” for a reason: money talks. 4/6

Fail #3: There’s no fresh, innovative thinking or progress with the review, showing how, when it comes to antidepressants taken by millions of people, the mental health industry remains stuck in the 1990s. That’s because when SSRIs were launched back then, short-term studies

Fail #2: Using short-term, weeks-long studies is at odds with psychiatry’s own guidelines directing patients to take antidepressants for at least six months (example here is the guidance from NICE in the UK). Ironically, these guidelines come from the same kind of people who

RT @markhoro: Just to summarise. The JAMA review concluded that there was no significant withdrawal based on its main analysis (figure 2) o….

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RT @coopercdavis: Among the major coverage of today’s SSRI withdrawal study, @EllenBarryNYT deserves credit for seeking out critical perspe….

RT @ACE_CoalitionEd: A newly published review attempts to minimize the risk of severe, protracted antidepressant withdrawal by relying prim….

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