While there is obviously some issues with how the pharma companies are required to report data, there is lots of evidence to the contrary regarding so called increased death rates, and new studies completely refute this viewpoint. This source is obviously very biased and is cherry-picking the data.
Gotzsche’s views were disputed in the same BMJ piece by Allan Young, professor of mood disorders at King’s College London, and psychiatric patient John Crace.
“More than a fifth of all health-related disability is caused by mental ill health, studies suggest, and people with poor mental health often have poor physical health and poorer (long-term) outcomes in both aspects of health,” they wrote.
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