140CONTENTS

4.DEVELOPMENTS SINCE PUBLICATION		UPDATES
4.1 Text references		August 2003
4.2 Additional published evidence and reviews		Dec 2001
PUBLISHED REPORTS ON SSRI WITHDRAWAL		August 2003
DO ANTIDEPRESSANTS CAUSE DEPENDENCE?		April 1999
DIRECT TO CONSUMER ADVERTISING		Dec 2001
COSTLY BENEFITS AND THE CONSPIRACY OF GOODWILL		Sept 2000
Information Management, Conflicts of Interest and the safety of SSRIs		August 2003

Matters arising: 4.3 - Government agencies
*Medicines Control Agency/Committee on Safety of Medicines*		August 2003
Department of Health		August 2003
Chief Medical Officer of Health, Prime Minister		Late 1997
Parliamentary Select Committee on Health		Oct 1998
European Medicines Control Agency		Dec 2000
Committee on Standards in Public Life		June 1998
Audit Commission		July 1998
Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration (Ombudsman)		Dec 2000
CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN DR DAVID HEALY AND THE MCA		July 2003

Re: Freedom of Information -
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Cabinet Office	Promises	1996-1998
The Home Office	Realities	1999
Freedom of Information? Forget it	Crunch	2000
Freedom of Information Act	Future	from 2002
Matters arising: 4.4 - Medical organisations
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Royal College of General Practitioners
World Health Organisation		Dec 1999

Matters arising: 4.5 - Pharmaceutical companies		`
Manufacturers of SSRI antidepressants
SmithKline Beecham - UK (re: Seroxat/Paxil - 1997)		Oct 2002
SmithKline Beecham - USA (ditto - Autumn 2000)		Oct 2000
IFPMA - International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Associations		Sept 2001
Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority		March 2003
Eli Lilly (re: sponsorship of fluoxetine trials)		Jan 1999

1PREAMBLE
1.1 Introduction	1.11 Re: PIRC/Social Audit
1.2 Web overview	1.21 Publications list 1.22 How to order reports
1.3 Abstract	1.35 Download this report

2 BENEFITS?
2.1 Do antidepressants work?
2.2 When antidepressants were first used
2.3 Treatment of depression: the first 30 years
2.4 Treating depression: the 1990s
2.5 The definition of depression
2.6 Diagnosis - Anxiety or depression?
2.7 Standards for testing the efficacy of SSRIs
2.8 Blindness, placebo response in trials
2.9 Clinical advantages claimed for SSRIs
2.10 Prozac, suicide and aggression
2.11 The popularity of Prozac and other SSRIs
2.12 Defeating Depression
2.13 Treatment guidelines, prescribing modes

3RISKS?
3.1 Dependence as an iatrogenic disease
3.2 Withdrawal from original antidepressants
3.3 Withdrawal problems with SSRIs
3.4 Some SSRI users’ views
3.5 Where the goalposts of dependence used to be
3.6 Warnings and prescribing advice
3.7 Benefits of long-term use
3.8 Risks of long-term use
3.9 What passes for progress


5DISCUSSION	1998 to date
5.1 Editorial notes and What's New	November 2003
5.2 Overview comments from readers
5.3 Is this a true and fair view?	No?
	Maybe?
	Yes?
6. MEDICINES OUT OF CONTROL? Antidepressants and the Conspiracy of Goodwill	March 2004