The Sedated Society: The Causes and Harms of Our Psychiatric Drug Epidemic

by James Davies

Book Overview

This edited volume provides an answer to a rising public health concern: what drives the over prescription of psychiatric medication epidemic? Over 15% of the UK public takes a psychiatric medication on any given day, and the numbers are only set to increase. Placing this figure alongside the emerging clinical and scientific data revealing their poor outcomes and the harms these medications often cause, their commercial success cannot be explained...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319449109
• ISBN13: 9783319449104
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"