Thread by @elleprovocateur

"It is now well-established that most pediatric #antidepressant trials were #industry-sponsored & had serious methodological limitations; many trials remained unpublished due to unfavorable results, "

#Children: the sacrificial lambs of capitalism.

frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

https://twitter.com/Deedoherty2/status/1373451913476374529

"& those published were mostly ghost-written, selectively reported efficacy outcomes & misrepresented the true rate of treatment-emergent #suicidal events"

Those that claim to care about your health allow #pharmacological & #psychological experimentation on #children & #youth.

"in most countries #antidepressant use has considerably increased in #children & #adolescent over the last 10–15 years (11–13), despite #suicidality warnings, the serious limitations of the evidence-base, & ongoing controversies surrounding risks [] [and] #placebo response."

"In the second, Whitely et al. describe how prominent #psychiatrists & influential #mentalhealth organizations challenged the black-box suicidality warning for adolescents & young adults..."

#Pharma industry sycophants.

"The authors argue that various ecological studies were cited misleadingly as evidence that increased #antidepressant use reduces #youth #suicide risk...

they further show that, in #Australia, both antidepressant use & suicide rates increased substantially from 2008 to 2018."

"Zito et al. analyzed administrative claims of Medicaid-insured #youth aged <20 yrs from 1987-2014. During this [] period, #antidepressant use grew 14-fold... in 2014, antidepressants were prescribed 6 x more often for youth in #fostercare than [] income-eligible #Medicaid..."

"From the perspective of #institutional #corruption, they discuss 2 drivers of overuse resulting from an increasingly medicalised approach to #mentalhealth...

emphasis on scaling up diagnosis & treatment of mental disorders as part of a renewed Global Mental Health #Movement."