Mental health: MPs condemn overreliance on pills

A group of MPs have called for a radical overhaul of the way poor mental health is managed in the UK to move away from its “overreliance on psychiatric drugs.”The Beyond Pills All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) says there needs to be a paradigm shift away from “the traditional biomedical model” towards a more holistic approach that tackles the social, economic, and psychological determinants of mental health.In a report1 they point to the impact on mental health of toxic relationships, abuse, and violence as well as the role of wider societal factors such as economic insecurity, poverty, poor housing, inadequate nutrition, and damaged communities.Despite increased investment in traditional approaches to mental health the rates of poor mental health are worsening in the general population, the report points out. And with nearly a quarter of the adult population prescribed a psychiatric drug in any given year, it says the current levels…
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