By 1997 drugs had overtaken talk therapy in treating depression: 75% of patients used drugs (up from 37% in 1987) versus an overlapping 60% who got some form of therapy (down from 71% in 1987), a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found.
No one doubts that the archaic, overlapping patchwork of agencies needs modernising, with regulation refocused on a firm's activities rather than its legal form.