{"id":30167,"date":"2020-10-28T16:33:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T05:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=30167"},"modified":"2020-10-28T16:33:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T05:33:12","slug":"researchers-its-time-to-stop-recommending-antidepressants-for-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=30167","title":{"rendered":"Researchers: It\u2019s Time to Stop Recommending Antidepressants for Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Worldwide, depression remains one of the most widely diagnosed disorders, and the first line of treatment in many countries is antidepressant medications. While early reports showed promise, emerging evidence over the last several years has raised massive doubts. This evidence has questioned both the efficacy of these drugs and the adverse effects associated with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-mad-in-america\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"6kM8Gvq53b\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.madinamerica.com\/2020\/10\/researchers-suggest-antidepressants-not-used-depression\/\">Researchers: It&#8217;s Time to Stop Recommending Antidepressants for Depression<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Researchers: It&#8217;s Time to Stop Recommending Antidepressants for Depression&#8221; &#8212; Mad In America\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madinamerica.com\/2020\/10\/researchers-suggest-antidepressants-not-used-depression\/embed\/#?secret=xhbTbkLNNC#?secret=6kM8Gvq53b\" data-secret=\"6kM8Gvq53b\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worldwide, depression remains one of the most widely diagnosed disorders, and the first line of treatment in many countries is antidepressant medications. While early reports showed promise, emerging evidence over the last several years has raised massive doubts. This evidence has questioned both the efficacy of these drugs and the adverse effects associated with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30168,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30167\/revisions\/30168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}