From Rob Pinnock
Millie Kieve devotes a full page (15 September, p 24) to her view that serious adverse drug reactions are killing people, and you give a further quarter page to a news report that seems to support this (p 4). Then, in a space about the size of a postage stamp, you report that since young people have started to shun antidepressants following adverse publicity about them, suicide rates have increased by between 14 and 49 per cent (p 5).
This shows firstly that the drugs do work and secondly that hostile publicity has probably resulted in more deaths than have adverse drug reactions.
Cambridge, UK
