Politicians, experts, and patient representatives call for the UK government to reverse the rate of antidepressant prescribing
BMJ
.
2023 Dec 5:383:2730.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.p2730.
Authors
James Davies
1
,
John Read
2
,
Danny Kruger
3
,
Nigel Crisp
3
,
Norman Lamb
4
,
Michael Dixon
5
,
Sam Everington
5
6
,
Sheila Hollins
7
8
,
Joanna Moncrieff
9
,
Bogdan Chiva Giurca
10
,
Chris van Tulleken
9
,
Guy Chouinard
11
,
Michael Dooley
5
,
Anne Guy
3
,
Mark Horowitz
12
,
Peter Kinderman
13
,
Lucy Johnstone
14
,
Luke Montagu
15
,
Antonio E Nardi
16
,
Sarah Stacey
17
,
Martin Bell
18
,
Andrew Tresidder
19
,
Jo Watson
20
,
Stevie Lewis
21
,
Marcantonio Spada
22
,
Rupert Payne
23
,
Naveed Akhtar
24
5
,
Christian Buckland
25
,
Jon Levett
25
,
Sue Whitcombe
26
,
Laura Marshall-Andrews
27
Affiliations
1
University of Roehampton, London, UK.
2
International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal, London, UK.
3
Beyond Pills All Party Parliamentary Group, Houses of Parliament, London, UK.
4
UK Government.
5
College of Medicine, London, UK.
6
BMA.
7
St George's, University of London, UK.
8
House of Lords, London, UK.
9
University College London, UK.
10
National Academy for Social Prescribing, London, UK.
11
McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
12
North East London NHS Foundation Trust, UK.
13
University of Liverpool, UK.
14
Bristol, UK.
15
Council for Evidence Based Psychiatry, London, UK.
16
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
17
College of Medicine Beyond Pills Campaign, London, UK.
18
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, UK.
19
Medicines Management NHS Somerset, UK.
20
Worcestershire, UK.
21
Lived and Professional Experience Advisory Panel for Prescribed Drug Dependence, UK.
22
London South Bank University, UK.
23
University of Exeter, UK.
24
Integrated Medicine Alliance, UK.
25
UK Council for Psychotherapy, London, UK.
26
Division of Counselling Psychology, British Psychological Society.
27
Brighton, UK.
PMID:
38052460
DOI:
10.1136/bmj.p2730
No abstract available
Publication types
Letter
MeSH terms
Antidepressive Agents / therapeutic use
Depressive Disorder* / drug therapy
Regierung
Humans
Patient Advocacy*
Practice Patterns, Physicians'
Vereinigtes Königreich
Substances
Antidepressive Agents