Posted by baseball55 on June 3, 2015, at 20:13:03
In reply to Stop Almost All Psych Meds to Prevent Harm., posted by Phillipa on June 2, 2015, at 19:51:15
Well that's alarmist in the extreme. Given that the US has about 40,000 suicides a year and the EU - while I couldn't find data on annual suicides - has a lower suicide rate and about the same population....500,000 per year in the US and EU combined? There are fewer than 1m worldwide (WHO) and most are in asia, with 1/2 the worlds population and a culture in which suicide is more widely accepted as a reasonable response to distress.
These figures make no sense whatsoever. Suicide rates in the US and EU have fallen since the late 1980s (WHO, OECD, CDC), a period where anti-depressant use has soared.
I find this irresponsible.
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