Dear BBC Radio Scotland, Kaye Adams Programme - Prescribed Medication "addiction" Tuesday, June 20, 2017 I cannot believe the naivety, bordering on ignorance of Graham Watts, Consultant Hypnotherapist, in relation to prescription drug dependence. He obviously knows very little about Antidepressants and Benzodiazepines and having looked at his experience I understand why. The programme was about the sensationalisation of the term ‘Addiction’ and to say the difference between

Beverley Thorpe questions whether Scotland is implementing an evidence-based approach to the prescribing of antidepressants. At a time when the dominant medical model of mental health means prescription rates of antidepressants in Scotland are soaring, should we be concerned by the lack of recognition the Scottish Government gave to the issue in their 2017-2027 Mental Health Strategy? What were their reasons for failing to address what is becoming an ever-increasing problem i

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