Researchers Push Treating Pregnant Women With Antidepressants: Pseudoscience Reaches New Heights in JAMA Report

 
'In the face of recent studies documenting birth defects and increases in miscarriages resulting from antidepressant use during pregnancy, researchers want to push these drugs on pregnant women.'

 

'A metastudy on the effects of depression in pregnant women found what the authors termed only "modest" risks of preterm and low birth weight infants. So, their conclusion is to screen all pregnant women for depression—and treat them with antidepressants. They didn't bother to consider the risks of antidepressants taken during pregnancy. They simply decided that depression in pregnant women, no matter what the cause, should be drugged, no matter how severe the adverse effects.'

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