152. Garbage In, Garbage Out: Every Failure of Sameer Jauhar, et.al's New Paper on Antidepressant Withdrawal

The Incidence and Nature of Antidepressant Discontinuation Symptoms: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, published in JAMA Psychiatry

A few days ago, I received the following text from a key player in the world of psychiatric drug withdrawal: “There’s a huge study coming out tomorrow that says antidepressant withdrawal does not exist. We had an emergency meeting this morning with a bunch of folks to come up with a strategy to push back.”

I was not part of this meeting—I’m rarely at the…