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‘No plan’ for those who want to come off anti-depressants

Mainstream medicine is "vehemently defending" anti-depressants which may in time been seen as addictive and troublesome drugs and will not have the same level of use as they have now.

Limerick-based Dr Terry Lynch, author of the controversial book Beyond Prozac, told the Irish Examiner that just as the medical profession had admitted that benzodiazepines were addictive and harmful in some cases, he believed the same could happen with commonly used anti-depressants known as SSRIs.

Dr Lynch said he had dealt with several cases where people were trying to withdraw from the tablets.

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Source: Jennifer Hough, Irish Examiner, 06/03/2012

Posted by Andy on 03/06 at 09:51 AM in
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