Description
Over eight million people in the UK are on antidepressants, with approximately two million people having taken them for five years. Here, we question the benefits and downsides of a prescription for happiness.
Join psychiatrist, scientist, psychopharmacologist, and author, Dr David Healy, as he shares the history of psychopharmacology, his clinical trials research in the area, and the impact of both trials and psychotropic drugs on our culture.
With an ever-increasing portion of our society becoming reliant on pills for positivity, unknown long-term side effects, and an industry profiting from every prescription, what does the future hold?
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David Healey
David Healy’s roles have included Professor of Psychiatry at Bangor, Cardiff and McMaster Universities. He is a former Secretary of the British Association for Psychopharmacology. He has authored of over 240 peer reviewed articles, 300 other pieces and 25 books, including The Antidepressant Era, The Creation of Psychopharmacology, The Psychopharmacologists Volumes 1-3, Let Them Eat Prozac, Mania, Children of the Cure and Shipwreck of the Singular.
He is a founder of Data Based Medicine and RxISK.org. He has raised awareness of how companies sell drugs by marketing diseases and co-opting academic opinion-leaders, ghost-writing their articles.
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