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Antidepressants: the role of statistical manipulation
Antidepressant use continues to rise, but who is keeping Big Pharma in check? A critique of the influence of statistics, addiction risks, and medical policy.
Antidepressant use continues to rise, but who is keeping Big Pharma in check? A critique of the influence of statistics, addiction risks, and medical policy.
Ifind it a pity that it makes the news when 3,000 more people take medication, but not when there are 3,000 fewer. We could just as well ask ourselves: is this a good sign, should we celebrate it? Or does it actually mean that we aren't prescribing enough?” An incredible feat of statistical alchemy by pharmacologist Laura de Wit on the LINDA website regarding the increase in the number of women and girls taking antidepressants, as reported by the healthcare knowledge center Nivel at the beginning of September.
Nothing to worry about. “It’s only 3,000 more women. 3,000 extra women out of a total of over 1 million. I don’t find that extremely high; it could also be a natural variation that occurs from time to time.” Statistical alchemy, inimitable reasoning from a modern-day potion brewer. I find the “does this mean we aren't prescribing enough?” part particularly worrying. Is this the compassionate pharmacologist speaking, the one who doesn't want anyone to miss out?
Antidepressants are also not at all addictive, according to propagandist psychiatrist and clinical pharmacologist Laura de Wit on the site where girls and women get their news. 'You only get ‘withdrawal symptoms’. That’s what she calls it. But never a craving for more.
Apparently, Laura has forgotten the recent history where Librium and Valium sold like hotcakes. Which, of course, were also supposedly not addictive at all. The drugs were promoted as a brilliant penicillin for the blues. They were backed by advertising budgets that even the COVID propaganda could learn a thing or two from. For that, just read ‘The Age of Anxiety' by Andrea Tone. America’s turbulent affair with psychopharmaceuticals. And turbulent is an understatement, as far as I’m concerned.
And has Laura also completely forgotten the opioid crisis involving oxycodone? That stuff was also supposed to be completely non-addictive. The opposite was true, of course, supported by the elite guild of pharmacologists. Read my blog about the Sackler family of Purdue Pharma which has 450,000 deaths on its conscience. More deaths than in all the wars the USA has fought since WWII (and there have been quite a few, as we know). They bought up scientific journals and promoted their addictive product there. Anyone who thinks the opioid crisis is over is in for a rude awakening. The prescribing of addictive painkillers continues, under different names and with different players.
And then that text: “You don’t just choose antidepressants; you only take them if it’s really necessary. Then it’s actually brave. If someone has a headache, we don’t think it’s strange if they take a paracetamol, do we?”
Yes, I also always turn off the red warning light in my car when it comes on. Then there’s immediately nothing wrong anymore. Very reassuring. That a headache or depression might be a signal of something else, so what? You just fight it with a pill. You just turn off the red light. Nothing, nada, nothing wrong anymore.
With the support of the pharmaceutical industry and the media (LINDA. is doing its best again today), the myth is being spread in mental healthcare that almost all psychiatric illnesses can be treated with medication. The truth is that most psychopharmaceuticals do patients more harm than good and that their excessive use leads to an alarming number of deaths. Peter Gøtzsche, a Danish physician and professor of clinical research, substantiated this years ago with a large amount of independent research and practical examples. Read that book!
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