The Mirror: Leading scientist Peter Gotzsche, claims antidepressant drugs are immensely harmful and dangerous and are responsible for over half a million suicides every year. He recommends banning them.

Submitted by IWB, on May 14th, 2015

A leading scientist has claimed that antidepressant drugs are responsible for over half a million deaths of people aged over 65 every year.
Peter Gotzsche, a Danish medical researcher, made the claims in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) in which he argued that long-term use of psychotropic drugs are “immensely harmful”.
“Given their lack of benefit, I estimate we could stop almost all psychotropic drugs without causing harm – by dropping all antidepressants, ADHD drugs, and dementia drugs,” Gotzsche wrote.

Gotzsche analysed Danish perscription statistics for three types of psychiatric drugs: antipsychotics, benzodiazepines and antidepressants.

He says that he included people only aged 65 years or older and measured the death rates
image: http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png
of those using the drugs. The number he arrived at was 3,693 which – when scaled up – leads to 539,000 in the USA and European Union combined. MORE:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/science/antidepressant-drugs-immensely-harmful-responsible-5690650

Read more at http://investmentwatchblog.com/the-mirror-leading-scientist-peter-gotzsche-claims-antidepressant-drugs-are-immensely-harmful-and-dangerous-and-are-responsible-for-over-half-a-million-suicides-every-year-he-recommends-banning-the/#RUtlGz3M1ZsuYvJw.99