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APPENDIX 1

COMPETING INTERESTS

  25.  In recent years, I have had consultancies with, been a principal investigator or clinical trialist for, been a chairman or speaker at international symposia for or been in receipt of support to attend foreign meetings from Astra, Astra-Zeneca, Boots/Knoll Pharmaceuticals, Eli Lilly, Janssen-Cilag, Lorex-Synthelabo, Lundbeck, Organon, Pharmacia & Upjohn, Pierre-Fabre, Pfizer, Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, Roche, SmithKline Beecham, Solvay, Zeneca.

  26.  I have also been an expert witness for the plaintiff in seven legal actions involving SSRIs, as well as for the defendant in four cases of assault involving SSRIs, but otherwise has offered the view that antidepressants have not been implicated in approximately 100 other cases. I have been an expert witness for the defendants (the British National Health Service) in a large series of LSD and ECT cases.



 
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