The UK's Antidepressant Dependency Crisis: Government's Moral Obligation to Help.

An open letter by healthcare professionals calls for specialist NHS services to support patients harmed by taking prescription medications. The Panorama programme shows that there are still almost no NHS services to support patients who have been harmed by taking medicines as prescribed by their doctor, such as antidepressants and benzodiazepines. The patient community has been forced to develop its own withdrawal protocols in the absence of sufficient tapering guidance being advanced by NICE or any other national clinical guidelines internationally. The NHS has a clinical and moral obligation to help those who have been harmed by taking their medication as prescribed.