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Ssri Anti-Depressants

EDM number 1056 in 2007-08, proposed by Jim Dobbin on 26/02/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Medicine and Mental health.

That this House welcomes the Department of Health's announcement to increase the provision of talking therapy for depression; notes Professor Irving Kirsch's study of the manufacturer's trials of the SSRI anti-depressants Prozac, Seroxat and Efexor and his conclusion that these drugs are not effective; notes that there is zero cost-effectiveness to drugs that do not work; further notes that large numbers of people are involuntarily addicted to these drugs and suffer bizarre and severe side effects which leave them unable to work; calls upon the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence to review the approval of these drugs; calls upon the Government to provide withdrawal clinics for people addicted to prescribed drugs; further calls upon the Government to provide appropriate rehabilitation to bring these people back into the workforce; urges the Government to organise controlled withdrawal of these drugs from the market; and further urges the Government to investigate how the manufacturers and distributors obtained product licences and to implement the recommendations of the Fourth Report of the Health Committee, Session 2004-05, on the Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry, HC42-1, including an independent review of the UK drug licensing authority the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency.

This motion has been signed by a total of 66 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Jim Dobbin26/02/2008Heywood and MiddletonLabourProposed
Bob Spink26/02/2008Castle PointConservativeSeconded
Ann Cryer26/02/2008KeighleyLabourSeconded
Geraldine Smith26/02/2008Morecambe and LunesdaleLabourSeconded
Richard Younger-Ross26/02/2008TeignbridgeLiberal DemocratSeconded
Michael Clapham26/02/2008Barnsley West and PenistoneLabourSeconded
Greg Mulholland26/02/2008Leeds North WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Ian Gibson26/02/2008Norwich NorthLabourSigned
David Crausby26/02/2008Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Tony Lloyd26/02/2008Manchester CentralLabourSigned
Bob Laxton26/02/2008Derby NorthLabourSigned
Peter Kilfoyle26/02/2008Liverpool, WaltonLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle26/02/2008ChorleyLabourSigned
John Heppell26/02/2008Nottingham EastLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell27/02/2008Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Mark Hunter27/02/2008CheadleLiberal DemocratSigned
Stewart Hosie27/02/2008Dundee EastScottish National PartySigned
John Hemming27/02/2008Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Rudi Vis27/02/2008Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Desmond Turner27/02/2008Brighton, KemptownLabourSigned
David Taylor27/02/2008North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Mike Hancock27/02/2008Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Hywel Francis27/02/2008AberavonLabourSigned
Andrew Dismore27/02/2008HendonLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn27/02/2008Islington NorthLabourSigned
Martin Caton27/02/2008GowerLabourSigned
Lynne Jones27/02/2008Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins27/02/2008TamworthLabourSigned
Paul Holmes27/02/2008ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Gordon Prentice27/02/2008PendleLabourSigned
Janet Anderson28/02/2008Rossendale and DarwenLabourSigned
Paul Flynn28/02/2008Newport WestLabourSigned
Janet Dean28/02/2008BurtonLabourSigned
Laura Moffatt28/02/2008CrawleyLabourSigned
Simon Hughes28/02/2008North Southwark and BermondseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Annette Brooke28/02/2008Mid Dorset and North PooleLiberal DemocratSigned
John Pugh29/02/2008SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Chris McCafferty03/03/2008Calder ValleyLabourSigned
Colin Breed03/03/2008South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Robert Wareing03/03/2008Liverpool, West DerbyIndependentSigned
Betty Williams03/03/2008ConwyLabourSigned
Alan Simpson04/03/2008Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Paul Keetch04/03/2008HerefordLiberal DemocratSigned
John McDonnell04/03/2008Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
David Drew04/03/2008StroudLabourSigned
David Borrow05/03/2008South RibbleLabourSigned
Dai Davies05/03/2008Blaenau GwentIndependentSigned
Charlotte Atkins05/03/2008Staffordshire MoorlandsLabourSigned
Vincent Cable05/03/2008TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Marsha Singh05/03/2008Bradford WestLabourSigned
Nigel Evans05/03/2008Ribble ValleyConservativeSigned
Doug Naysmith06/03/2008Bristol North WestLabourSigned
Bill Etherington11/03/2008Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Norman Baker11/03/2008LewesLiberal DemocratSigned
Frank Dobson13/03/2008Holborn and St PancrasLabourSigned
Michael Jabez Foster17/03/2008Hastings and RyeLabourSigned
Lyn Brown17/03/2008West HamLabourSigned
John Grogan18/03/2008SelbyLabourSigned
Clive Efford20/03/2008ElthamLabourSigned
Eric Illsley25/03/2008Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Nick Harvey27/03/2008North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Virendra Sharma02/04/2008Ealing, SouthallLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell21/04/2008Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Lynne Featherstone21/04/2008Hornsey and Wood GreenLiberal DemocratSigned
Edward O'Hara22/04/2008Knowsley SouthLabourSigned
Iris Robinson29/04/2008StrangfordDUPSigned

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