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John Read - The UK Royal College of Psychiatrists and Antidepressant Withdrawal

Mar 9, 2018

Today on MIA Radio we have a special episode which is devoted to recent developments in the UK involving the Royal College of Psychiatrists. These events relate to the media coverage of a widely reported antidepressant meta-analysis in the Lancet, information on antidepressant withdrawal effects and a letter to The Times newspaper by the President of the Royal College Professor Wendy Burn and the Chair of the Royal College’s Psychopharmacology Committee, Professor David Baldwin.

Professor John Read from the University of East London took time out to explain recent events and to talk about a formal complaint which has been lodged with the Royal College on behalf of a group of eminent psychiatrists and psychologists.

Relevant links:

Read the letter on Mad in America

Press Release by the Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry

The Times: More People Should Get Pills to Beat Depression

The Royal College’s leaflet on Antidepressant Withdrawal