Daily Mail

NHS ‘can’t cope’ with surge in Brits self-diagnosing with ADHD and autism, expert warns

This report by Emily Stearn has been published in the Daily Mail. It begins: “The ailing NHS risks being ‘overwhelmed’ by a huge surge in ADHD and autism self-diagnoses, experts have warned.   Professor Anthony David, director of UCL Institute of Mental…
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It has a huge and powerful lobby which turns with fury on its critics so I know this question will get me into loads of trouble but… does ADHD even exist?

This article by Peter Hitchens has been published by the Daily Mail. It begins: “Does  ADHD  in fact exist? This week the  BBC ’s Panorama programme quite rightly exposed some very worrying private clinics.  In online consultations,  staff had diagnosed a BBC reporter with ADHD  — attention deficit hyperactivity disorder —…
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Antidepressants do not work better than a placebo, study finds

Eleanor Hayward Health, reporting for the Daily Mail, writes : “Doctors should stop prescribing antidepressants because there is no decent clinical evidence that they work better than a placebo, a study has found. About one in six British adults take the…
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Time for Some Serious Thought about ‘Antidepressants’

This blog post (2016) from Peter Hitchens has been published in the Daily Mail. It begins: “I expect to have more to say about this, but today’s BMJ? UCL/ Nordic Cochrane Centre analysis of research on ‘antidepressants’ should surely change the terms…
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£500m… the shameful cost of pills patients should never have been given: As damning new research shows the NHS wastes a fortune on medication every year, a devastating investigation into a scandal wrecking so many lives

“… new research … reveals the terrible cost of the drug-dependency crisis not only on the individual, but also on NHS finances. Damning figures show that in England alone, nearly £570 million-worth of the drugs are given annually to patients…
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Why popping a pill for every emotional problem is madness: Antidepressants and antipsychotics are now doled out in their millions… but an expert argues they can make your condition WORSE

Psychotherapist James Davies has written an article for the Daily Mail. It begins: “Medicine has progressed at an astonishing rate over the past 40 years. If, in the late 1970s, a child had contracted leukaemia, their chances of survival would have…
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‘Safe’ Z-drug sleeping tablets given to MILLIONS each year are as addictive as Valium – and they can cause crushing anxiety, flu-like effects and suicidal thoughts

Reporting for the Daily Mail, Miranda Levy writes : “Zopiclone is the so-called ‘safer’ sleeping pill dished out by doctors to millions of Britons each year.  When it was launched in the 1990s, it was touted as a user-friendly alternative to…
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Doctors gave me depression pills I DIDN’T need for 20 years

From an article by Luke Montagu (Viscount Hinchingbrook) in the Daily Mail, January 2017: “Six years after taking my last dose of antidepressants, I am still suffering from their effects. I have constant nerve pain all over my body, like a burning pins and needles…
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