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Does the pill cause depression?

Does the pill cause depression?

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Does the pill cause depression?

by Xavier Symons | 1 Oct 2016 |

Women taking contraceptives are more likely to be treated for depression, according to a new study published in JAMA Psychiatry.

The longitudinal study, carried out by researchers from the University of Copenhagen, involved a data pool of over a million women living in Denmark. Researchers tracked women who had no previous depression diagnosis and compared first incidence rates of depression among those using contraceptives to those who were not.

The researchers found that that those on the combined pill were 23% more likely to be prescribed an antidepressant by their doctor, most commonly in the first six months after starting on the pill. Women on the progestin-only pills, a synthetic form of the hormone progesterone, were 34% more likely to take antidepressants or get a first diagnosis of depression than those not on hormonal contraception.

The researchers say their data "suggest(s) depression as a potential adverse effect of hormonal contraceptive use", and call for further studies to investigate the possible side-effects of contraceptives.

Channa Jayasena, of the UK-based Society for Endocrinology, said the findings raised important questions. “The study does not prove that the Pill plays any role in the development of depression,” she said. “However, we know hormones play a hugely important role in regulating human behaviour. Given the enormous size of this study, further work is needed to see if these results can be repeated in other populations.”

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Yes, the American president is the most powerful man in the world. Yes, he has the launch codes. But there is something unhealthy in the preoccupation of the world’s media with the US presidential campaign at the expense of other world crises.

Donald Trump, who must be the worst major party candidate ever, seems to have incited violence at some of his rallies and has even made vague threats to Hillary Clinton. If you Google “Trump violence”, you will get 82,700,000 results. It’s a live issue, at least in the media.

Google “Duterte violence” and you will get only 971,000 results – about 1% of the figures for Trump. But Mr Duterte has incited thugs, vigilantes and police to kill drug dealers and since he took office on June 30. The Filipino president now has the blood of 3,500 of his own countrymen on his hands. And he is not a buffoon running for President. He is the President.

But it could get worse. This week he cheerfully compared himself to Hitler. “Hitler massacred three million Jews ... there’s three million drug addicts. There are. I’d be happy to slaughter them,” he told a press conference. “You know my victims. I would like (them) to be all criminals to finish the problem of my country and save the next generation from perdition.”

The number of murders in July, August and September is more or less equivalent to the number of civilians killed in Syria. Why doesn’t the world care? It’s probably because Duterte’s victims are drug addicts and dealers. Even if they are, they have a right to life and a right to justice. They are human beings; they are not scum.

The world is demanding the removal of Syria’s President Assad because of the atrocities committed by his regime. It’s time that world leaders called for the removal of President Duterte.