By Ann Blake-Tracy on June 13, 2010
Seroxat [Paxil] antidepressant pills.
Photograph: Jack Sullivan/Alamy
The number of antidepressants prescribed by the NHS
has almost doubled in the last decade, and rose sharply last year as the
recession bit, figures reveal.
The health service issued 39.1m prescriptions for drugs to tackle depression in England in 2009, compared
with 20.1m in 1999 – a 95% jump. Doctors handed out 3.18m more prescriptions
last year than in 2008, almost twice the annual rise seen in preceding years,
according to previously unpublished statistics released by the NHS’s Business
Services Authority.
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged 11 June, 1m, antidepressants, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Family Doctors, Guardian Co Uk, Guardian Uk, Health Service, Jack Sullivan, Last Decade, Medication, Moderate Depression, Paxil, Paxil Antidepressant, prescriptions, Professor Steve, Recession, Royal College Of General Practitioners, Symptoms Of Depression, Treating Mild Depression |
By Todd on April 28, 2001
Ronald Stephens, executive director of the National School Safety
Center says: Its the thought that if youre going to put Charlie Manson in my
class I have a right to know that. . . We have kids so medicated its
incredible. I dont see parents asking the question about the numbers of
children on psychotropic drugs as being all that invasive. The public would
be shocked at the number of file drawers of prescription drugs that teachers
are asked to dispense. . . . it would be a great study for someone to go back
and see how many of the kids who committed these violent acts were on these
drugs.
Posted in DrugAwareness.org Newsletters | Tagged Act Of Violence, Charlie Manson, Copple, Crime Prevention Council, Detective Work, File Drawers, Insight Magazine, Last Decade, National Crime Prevention, National Crime Prevention Council, National School Safety, National School Safety Center, prescription drugs, Psychotropic Drugs, School Safety Center, School Shooting, School Shootings, Superintendent Of Schools, Violence School, Violent Acts |
By Ann Blake-Tracy on February 15, 2001
The Nigerian doctor who supervised a 1996 Pfizer Inc. drug experiment on
desperately ill children said in an interview that his office created a
backdated ethics approval document that the American pharmaceutical company
later used to satisfy U.S. regulators and to justify its conduct of the
human testing.
Posted in DrugAwareness.org Newsletters | Tagged Ann, Antibiotic Trovan, Approval Document, Doing Research, Drug Awareness, Ethics Board, Ill Children, International Coalition, Joe Stephens, Last Decade, Nigerian Officials, Page A01, Pfizer, Pfizer Inc, Pfizer Spokesman, Pharmaceutical Company, Thw Washington Post, Trovan, Washington Post, Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday |
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