Medicines Out Of Control

EDM number 853 in 2003-04, proposed by Paul Flynn on 17/03/2004.

That this House hails the publication of the book 'Medicines Out of Control' as a remarkable account of history repeating itself over the last 150 years in the promotion of anti-depression drugs; congratulates Mr Charles Medawar and Anita Hardon for revealing mountainous evidence of incompetence and inaction by regulatory authorities and profit-driven pharmaceutical giants in advocating the use of cocaine, bromides, barbiturates, benzodiazepines and anti-depressants as safe drugs until use by millions of patients have proved them to be addictive, dangerous and of little or no utility; and regrets that more than six million people in Britain and 10 million children in the USA are currently using anti-depressants in spite of mounting evidence that they have been vastly over-prescribed for the mild depression that is an inevitable part of the human experience.

This motion has been signed by a total of 39 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.