[D66] Are antidepressants a crime against humanity?

[René Oudeweg]

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  Are antidepressants a crime against humanity?

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For decades the general public (patients) have been bombarded with
messages about chemical imbalances in the brain and in particular low
serotonin being the cause of depression. I certainly was bombarded with
these messages. The psychiatrist who first prescribed tricyclic
antidepressants to me was Prof George Ashcroft. Prof Ashcroft had
discounted the low serotonin theory by 1970 as he could find no evidence
to support it. I did not know this until recently. As I could not
tolerate most of the drugs prescribed to me, I was eventually given an
SSRI, Prozac, another terrible drug which I could not tolerate. At every
single point in time I was led to believe that these drugs would somehow
help my condition. Yet I had been on a benzodiazepine since 1975, a drug
which mad made me extremely unwell and very quickly. None of my doctors
noticed this. I was already trapped on that drug by the time
antidepressants were offered to me. Psychiatrists were now persuading me
that I needed to be trapped not just on one class of drug but on two
classes of drugs. At no point was there informed consent. I am just one
person, with one story. There are millions like me, yet this is viewed
as being just a normal part of routine medical practice, it does not
even raise an eyebrow among doctors. It never raised an eyebrow in any
of the doctors I consulted with, they believed that drug dependence and
long term prescribing was good for my health!

Millions have been deceived into consuming SSRI antidepressants.
Millions no doubt have been harmed.

This is normal, routine, every day medical practice. I call it a crime
against humanity! The suffering caused by these drugs is horrific, just
as the suffering caused by benzodiazepines is also horrific. They call
it evidenced based medicine.

For me this isn’t about “mental health” or “mental health” drugs. I was
not prescribed a benzo for my “mental health”. It was prescribed by a
neurologist. It is about drugs being brought to market without warnings
of risks, false marketing, ignorant doctors educated by drug companies,
failure to listen to patients as they report harm, continued high
prescribing rates despite all the risks being known, the lack of
informed consent. I can guarantee as I write antidepressant prescribing
rates will be rising, this is the same pattern as we saw with benzos,
the prescribing rates continued to rise despite all the potential harms
being known by doctors. How many patients will actually be informed of
the risks?

Prescribers are very willing to prescribe, much less willing to outline
the serious risks and most certainly will not inform of the permanent
damage caused by these drugs about which they can do absolutely nothing.
PSSD is one example. These drugs can permanently alter the functioning
of the brain and body in many different ways, with current medical
knowledge medical doctors have no way of helping those who are
permanently altered.

This article seems pertinent to add here.
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