Tag: number needed to treat

The number needed to treat with a psychiatric drug to benefit one patient is largely an illusion, because more patients are harmed than receive a benefit.

With an NNT of 7, one out of every seven people given an SSRI would benefit from the treatment, while the other six would be needlessly exposed to the adverse effects.

On Denmark's declining use of depression pills for children, and why one should never stop fighting to change psychiatry and society's reliance on it.

From MinnPost: “It’s Disney World versus the real world,” Dr. David Juurlink, a professor of medicine at the University of Toronto who studies drug safety,...