Mark Horowitz: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Associate professor in psychiatry at Adelaide University and visiting lecturer in psychopharmacology at King's College London, lead author of The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines
- Quoted on
- Mental health
- Tracked press citations
- 2
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“There have been a thousand studies on starting antidepressants, and only a couple of dozen on coming off them. Withdrawal from these drugs has historically been downplayed, but there is now too much evidence to deny the risks outright.”
What Mark Horowitz has said
“Fluoxetine is clearly clinically equivalent to placebo in its benefits, but is associated with greater side effects and risks. It is difficult to see how anyone can justify exposing young people to a drug with known harms when it has no advantage over placebo in its benefits.”
associate professor of psychiatry at Adelaide University · Mental health · 27 Aug 2026 · Prozac ‘no better than placebo’ for treating children with depression, experts say ↗
Where Mark Horowitz has been quoted
- Why coming off psychiatric drugs is costing me hundreds of poundstelegraph.co.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- Prozac ‘no better than placebo’ for treating children with depression, experts saytheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
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