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The prescription of psychotropic drugs, and particularly the use of antidepressants, has received considerable attention in the medical literature, the media and from legislative bodies in recent years. Medical practitioners are faced with a bewildering array of apparently efficacious drugs from which they must choose when prescribing for a depressed patient. This paper discusses the main parameters which guide this choice, namely clinical efficacy, adverse effects profile, safety in overdose and monetary cost. It concludes by making some recommendations for the prescription of antidepressant drugs.

Reform of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) contributes to uncertainty in farm planning anda number of studies have examined farmer intentions to possible future support scenarios. This paperextends this literature by examining the effect of past reform on influencing farmer intentions towardsthe most recent reform of the CAP. Agricultural production-related intentions up to 2020 are assessed fora survey of 1764 livestock based holdings in Scotland. The influence of the Fischler reform is estimated,in addition to a hypothetical payment increase and a payment decrease scenario for the new reforms.The majority of farmers stated a desire to remain on the same trajectory under both business as usualand payment increase scenarios. Under a payment decrease scenario, the number of farmers stating theywould exit the industry more than doubled from 4% to 9% and around half the respondents stated theywould decrease both herd size and intensity if payments were to decrease. Consequently, this may besome evidence of a loss aversion effect. Response to past reform was found to be a significant predictorof intention to change as well as the identification of a successor within the farm household. This alludesto the path dependency model of transition within agriculture and these factors as possible triggers ofchange within the farm. We propose that future studies of farmer intentions should include some of thesetemporally distinct variables to explain change.© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available on open access from Wiley via the DOI in this record ; Sustainable intensification is a process by which agricultural productivity is enhanced whilst also creating environmental and social benefits. We aimed to identify practices likely to deliver sustainable intensification, currently available for UK farms but not yet widely adopted. We compiled a list of 18 farm management practices with the greatest potential to deliver sustainable intensification in the UK, following a well‐developed stepwise methodology for identifying priority solutions, using a group decision‐making technique with key agricultural experts. The list of priority management practices can provide the focal point of efforts to achieve sustainable intensification of agriculture, as the UK develops post‐Brexit agricultural policy, and pursues the second Sustainable Development Goal, which aims to end hunger and promote sustainable agriculture. The practices largely reflect a technological, production‐focused view of sustainable intensification, including for example, precision farming and animal health diagnostics, with less emphasis on the social and environmental aspects of sustainability. However, they do reflect an integrated approach to farming, covering many different aspects, from business organization and planning, to soil and crop management, to landscape and nature conservation. For a subset of ten of the priority practices, we gathered data on the level of existing uptake in English and Welsh farms through a stratified survey in seven focal regions. We find substantial existing uptake of most of the priority practices, indicating that UK farming is an innovative sector. The data identify two specific practices for which uptake is relatively low, but which some UK farmers find appealing and would consider adopting. These practices are: prediction of pest and disease outbreaks, especially for livestock farms; staff training on environmental issues, especially on arable farms. ; This work was funded by the Department for Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Welsh Government, as part of the Sustainable Intensification Research Platform. LVD is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (grant codes NE/K015419/1 and NE/N014472/1). WJS is funded by Arcadia.