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Commentary on ‘Depression: why drugs and electricity are not the answer’: We have created a public health disaster

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2022

Sami Timimi*
Affiliation:
Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Lincoln, UK
*
Author for correspondence: Sami Timimi, E-mail: stimimi@talk21.com

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