Psychiatric drugs do more harm than good, says expert

Peter Gitzsche argues that most prescriptions could be stopped without causing harm, but other experts strongly disagree

Psychiatric drugs do more harm than good and the use of most antidepressants and dementia drugs could be virtually stopped without causing harm, an expert on clinical trials argues in a leading medical journal.

Given their lack of benefit, I estimate we could stop almost all psychotropic drugs without causing harm