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Wednesday 12 April 2017

well worth watching and hearing psychiatrist Dr Joanna Moncrieff speak at the end of the video - her comments about 'Disease Awareness' campaigns and the fact there is no scientific evidence for the promotion by the pharmaceutical industry in their campaigns of a 'chemical imbalance' as a cause of mental distress should he heard by all medical students. Together with reading her book 'The Myth of the Chemical Cure' - if on the medical curriculum we may in the future see a reduction in iatrogenic illness. That is the ill health actually caused by the treatment. The rise in iatrogenesis is a public health crisis which the Department of Health would be wise to take into account when looking at the cost of emergency admissions to hospital.

The increase in emergency admissions to A & E caused by adverse drug reactions (ADRs) was highlighted in the Imperial College review of 10 years of hospital statistics. The increase by 76.8% was the fastest increase of any cause of admission. The human and financial cost is massive.

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