TY - JOUR T1 - Don’t get fooled again JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 314 LP - 314 DO - 10.3399/bjgp21X716297 VL - 71 IS - 708 AU - David Misselbrook Y1 - 2021/07/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/71/708/314.abstract N2 - According to William Osler, ‘The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals’.When I was a medical student we were taught about the dangers and evils of barbiturates. But fortunately we now had the safer and non-addictive benzodiazepines. By the time I was a GP I was busy weaning patients off those same benzodiazepines. And then came the ‘Defeat Depression’ (DDC) campaign of the 1990s, which led to a huge increase in antidepressant prescribing. The percentage of the UK population prescribed an antidepressant rose from 8.0% in1995/1996 to 13.4% in 2006/2007.2 We GPs were woefully neglecting our patients by not identifying depression and … ER -