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Prescription for Sorrow: Antidepressants, Suicide and Violence
by Patrick D. Hahn
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Prescription for Sorrow: Antidepressants, Suicide and Violence
One could scarcely have been alive and conscious anywhere in the Western world any time in the past twenty-five years and not have been aware of a raging controversy surrounding antidepressants, suicide, and violence—a controversy that shows no sign of abating. During that same period, prescriptions for antidepressants have skyrocketed. So what is the story? Do these drugs drive people to suicide, or do they not? What about homicide? Are they addictive? Do they even help with depression? Author and researcher Patrick D. Hahn has examined the scientific literature and the trial transcripts. He’s listened to doctors and the patients. He’s cross-checked the facts. And now, he has reconstructed the story to tell the truth about how these drugs are made and sold.
Dr. Patrick D. Hahn is an Affiliate Professor of Biology at Loyola University Maryland, USA, and a freelance writer. He has a long-standing interest in iatrogenic harm and the medicalization of everyday life. His first book, Madness and Genetic Determinism: Is Mental Illness in Our Genes?, explores how genetic determinist views of so-called “mental illness” have obscured the well-established role of childhood sexual abuse and other adverse childhood experiences in the genesis of those conditions. His writing on mental health and other issues has appeared in the Baltimore Sun, Mad in America, the Canada Free Press, Natural News Blogs, and other venues.