The Inner Compass Research Institute just released the findings of a survey they commissioned through an independent research firm about the practice of informed consent by doctors prescribing SSRIs, in particular. The results are available on the Inner Compass Insight Substack platform.
Their representative survey of Americans prescribed SSRIs listed the major adverse effects of these drugs and then asked the study participants if they ad been informed of each of them. The list included withdrawal, sexual dysfunction, suicidal thinking, serotonin syndrome, and risk of bleeding. Only 11 percent of the respondents were informed by their prescribers about all the adverse effects they themselves cared about.
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