Miranda Levy – A New Vision for Mental Health

Why women are being given boxing gloves and ballet shoes instead of antidepressants

Author: Editorial 15th August 2022 0 Comments

Subtitled “With one in five people taking pills for their mental health, doctors are turning to alternative methods – with help from Sport England”, this report from Miranda has been published in the Daily Telegraph. It begins: “It’s long been known…
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antidepressants, ballet, boxing, Daily Telegraph, depression, exercise, Miranda Levy, social prescribing, Sport England, women, yoga

‘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

Author: Editorial 21st April 2021 0 Comments

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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anxiety, Daily Mail, drug withdrawal symptoms, insomnia, Joanna Moncrieff, Miranda Levy, sleep, sleep disruption, sleeping pills, suicidal thoughts, Z-drug sleeping tablets, Zopiclone

‘We are a sedated society’: the rise in antidepressants during lockdown

Author: Editorial 21st May 2020 0 Comments

“One in six of the population is on antidepressants, and the numbers are rising. Are GPs being too ‘trigger-happy’ with prescriptions?” Reporting for The Telegraph, Miranda Levy writes : “As Britain slowly unlocks, we are emerging blinking into the sunlight. But…
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antidepressants, Association of Independent Multiple Pharmacies, COVID-19, General Practitioners, Miranda Levy, prescription drugs, The Telegraph

‘I lost a decade of my life to prescription drugs’

Author: Editorial 25th November 2019 0 Comments

“The main sufferers of prescription-medication withdrawal are white women over the age of 45. We know how to put people on these drugs, we just don’t know how to get them off.” Dr. David Healy, professor of psychiatry, Bangor University….
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addiction, antidepressants, benzodiazepines, David Healy, Miranda Levy, Pregabalin, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, Public Health England, The Telegraph, tranquillisers, Z-drugs