(m mag 12419) oops! the question from Tues that Fiddaman wouldn't answer on mentalmagazine @ Thu Sep 11, 2008 8:39 am

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Bob



Thank you for widening the issue!



I was intending to post a comment on your blog - but missed your
non-censorship deadline – so will post my reply on uksurvivors –
where you can come and discuss anything I've written.



The `huge flaw' is more that GPs are given no training about
medication or appropriate prescribing and management of patients on
psychotropic drugs - period!



Stepping in and training GPs to get people off SSRI / SNRIs – whilst
their still adding to the problem by indiscriminate and negligent
prescribing – isn't even trying to shut the door after the horse
has bolted – but more apathetically chasing it's tail as it
gallops away into the distance.



Having read the meetings minutes - the MHRA chose to contain the meeting
to discuss only withdrawal – which was your main concern – and
they did listen. But as they said its going to be difficult to address
with a `one size fits all' solution like the Benzodiazepines
withdrawal protocol in the BNF.



Its shame they didn't question - apply the same acknowledged caution
to the `one size fits all' with regard SSRI / SNRI dosage before
license when GPs were given free reign to prescribe the same dose to an
18 st lorry driver, 7 st granny with age related compromised metabolism
or young child!



Just out of interest – did you approach Dr David Healy before you
asked the MHRA if they would talk to him?



Tues