From Mad in Sweden: June 30th was International Psychiatric Drug Informed Consent Awareness Day. It provides an opportunity to reflect on what patients are told (and not told) before being prescribed antidepressants and other psychiatric medications.
Let’s imagine for a moment a scenario where a person sits in their doctor’s office and receives truly informed consent for an antidepressant prescription. A consent that reflects the full extent of the current scientific evidence.
It could look something like this.
Read the full article here and the English translation here.
