Beverley Thomson – Antidepressed - Antidepressant Harm and Dependence
Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health
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🗓️ 17 August 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Our guest today is Beverley Thomson. Beverley is a writer, researcher and speaker with a focus on psychiatric medication including antidepressants, benzodiazepines and ADHD drugs. She is interested in their history, how the drugs work, adverse effects, dependence, withdrawal and development of patient support services.
For the past 10 years, she has worked with organizations such as the British Medical Association, the Scottish Government and recently the UK All Party Parliamentary Group (APPPG) for prescribed drug dependence. She is currently part of a Scottish Government Short Life Working Group addressing the issue of prescribed drug harm and dependence in Scotland.
We talk about Beverley’s latest book, entitled Antidepressed: A Breakthrough Examination of Epidemic Antidepressant Harm and Dependence published by Hatherleigh Press in 2022. Featuring compelling accounts from people whose lives have been irrevocably harmed by prescribed antidepressants, Beverley’s work provides proof that there is no such thing as a magic pill and that pretending otherwise risks the lives and well-being of those who need help the most.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry and social justice. |
| 0:13.6 | Hello, this is James and welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:17.1 | And our sponsor this week is the JAEC Foundation, which is hosting an international conference on open dialogue this August. |
| 0:27.0 | And you can visit the website, jaecFoundation.org, for more information. |
| 0:33.3 | And now on to our interview. |
| 0:36.3 | Hello and welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:38.3 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 0:40.2 | Our guest today is Beverly Thompson. |
| 0:42.9 | Beverly is a writer, researcher and speaker with a focus on psychiatric medication, |
| 0:48.8 | including antidepressants, benzodiazepines, and ADHD drugs. |
| 0:54.0 | She is interested in their history, how the drugs work, adverse effects, Heracin's, benzodiazepines and ADHD drugs. |
| 0:54.2 | She is interested in their history, how the drugs work, adverse effects, dependence, |
| 0:59.1 | withdrawal and the development of patient support services. |
| 1:03.4 | For the past 10 years, she has worked with organisations such as the British Medical Association, |
| 1:08.3 | the Scottish Government and recently the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group |
| 1:12.7 | for Prescribed Drug Dependence. She is currently part of a Scottish Government Short Life Working Group |
| 1:18.9 | addressing the issue of prescribed drug harm and dependence in Scotland. We talk about Beverley's |
| 1:25.1 | latest book entitled Antidepressed A Breakthrough Examination of Epidemic Antidepressant Harm and Dependence, |
| 1:32.4 | published by Hatherly Press in 2022. Featuring compelling accounts from people whose lives have been |
| 1:39.5 | irrevocably harmed by prescribed antidepressants, Beverly's work provides proof that there is no such |
| 1:45.5 | thing as a magic pill and that pretending otherwise risks the lives and well-being of those who need |
| 1:51.2 | help the most. I was keen to know more about what motivated Beverly to write antidepress and what |
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