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August 2017
 
 
 

Here's a recap of blog posts and other news from the past month.

The big event that has been dominating posts on davidhealy.org and RxISK.org was the Panorama program on the Holmes case.

The key point here is the difficulty in talking about the effects of treatment. If a drug has been linked by its manufacturer to an outcome like homicide, and if a case can be made that the drug had this effect in a particular individual, then we have a major problem if this defence cannot be used. A jury can decide whether it agrees or not, but if they are not given the chance to hear this argument, then this is bad news for all of us.

Blog posts over the next month will return to this from another perspective.

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This evening a Panorama program aired on the issue of antidepressants and violence. The driving forces behind this were Andy Bell and Shelley Jofre, prompted in the first instance by Katinka Newman. The story is to my mind compelling. There have been considerable efforts to cloud the picture - see Honey I Shrunk the [...] ...»


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Prior to the Panorama program Prescription for Murder tonight,  a flurry of experts denounced the scaremongering. This didn't just happen by accident. The denunciation effort was also more intense than the pressure brought to bear on the original Panorama programs in 2002-2004. The change is in part down to the fact that [...] ...»