Public Health England – A New Vision for Mental Health

‘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

People with learning disabilities over-prescribed psychiatric drugs

Author: Editorial 29th June 2018 0 Comments

A study by Public Health England (July, 2015) found that people with learning disabilities are regularly prescribed psychiatric drugs without a recorded diagnosis. The report’s Executive Summary referred to a prior UK government report – Transforming Care – and noted the…
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anti-psychotic drugs, antidepressants, autism, General Practitioners, GPs, learning disabilities, Psychiatric Drugs, Public Health England, Transforming Care report