The trouble with antidepressants: why the evidence overplays benefits and underplays risks-an essay by John B Warren
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The trouble with antidepressants: why the evidence overplays benefits and underplays risks-an essay by John B Warren
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Competing interests: I have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and declare I am paid dividends from the medical consultancy Medicines Assessment. I am a member of the joint specialty committee for clinical pharmacology and therapeutics at the Royal College of Physicians and acted as an RCP representative at the APPG for Prescribed Drug Dependence, Westminster. I advise the Cure Parkinson’s Trust.
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