Antidepressants and murder: justice denied.

Abstract

Adshead has missed the point of the BBC Panorama programme “A Prescription for Murder.”1 It did not attempt to prove that antidepressants cause homicide. Causality has been conceded by prosecutors, regulators, and companies. As early as 1983, Pfizer noted that antidepressants could cause aggressive behaviour. Nor was it about whether sertraline caused Holmes to murder. Having spent time with him, I think that it did. …