Wed.Sep 18, 2024

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Antidepressant Withdrawal: A Psychiatrist’s 30-Year Challenge to Conventional Wisdom

Mad in America

In 1994, Dr. Giovanni Fava posed a controversial question: could antidepressants be worsening the very conditions they were designed to treat? Thirty years later, his clinical insights into withdrawal symptomatology suggest the answer may be yes—and the implications are unsettling. The pharmaceutical industry has downplayed the risks of withdrawal symptoms following the discontinuation of antidepressant medications.

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STAR*D: The Harms of Orchestrated Psychiatric Fraud

Mad in America

D epression is the most frequent psychiatric diagnosis. A few years ago, one in five US adults reported having ever received a diagnosis of depression. At a cost of 35 million dollars, NIMH’s STAR*D study, which was published in 2006 , is the most extensive and expensive study ever conducted to determine the effectiveness of drug treatment for depression.