Letters
Mental illness treatments
Evidence for drugs in mental illness is flawed
BMJ 2011; 343 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d4381 (Published 12 July 2011) Cite this as: BMJ 2011;343:d4381- Noel Thomas, general practitioner1
- 1Maesteg, Bridgend, UK
- nthomas{at}doctors.org.uk
The loss of research into drug treatments for mental illness is ironic when more doubt is being expressed about the reliability of research that has encouraged the prescription, or over-prescription, of psychotropics to countless people at huge cost.1
Marcia Angell, an editor of the New England Journal of Medicine for many years, recently reviewed three books that discuss the …
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