Grief and major depression

As a mood disorder specialist in the US, I was disappointed to see the unqualified admonition, “Don’t keep taking the tablets,” in your editorial comment.1 It is always hazardous to infer “quality of care” from raw rates of drug prescription. Reid has shown that, in Scotland, GPs were “cautious and conservative in their [antidepressant] prescribing” and that increased duration of antidepressant prescription, not an increase in patients, was driving the …