Showing posts with label anti-depressants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anti-depressants. Show all posts
Monday, July 13, 2015

Teens are prescribed more medications than ever, while teenage suicides are soaring.

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One of the paradoxes of child and adolescent psychiatry is that, at a time when teens are prescribed more medications than ever, teenage sui...
Monday, July 06, 2015

My Trip Through the Polypharmacy Blender

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A long story by Rory Tennes on the Risx website , describing his descent into psychiatric hell. We only present a few snippets, and recomme...
Saturday, February 07, 2015

‘Darwinian’ test uncovers an antidepressant’s hidden toxicity.

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Rodent study finds that exposure to an antidepressant in womb or in youth can cause lifetime decline in sexual behavior, body weight, and co...
Monday, February 02, 2015

Choosing Wisely: Five Things Physicians, Psychiatrists, and Patients Should Question

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As seen on the Choosing Wisely website Available also as a PDF 1 Don’t prescribe antipsychotic medications to patients for any indicati...
Friday, January 23, 2015

Psychiatry is Broken

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A very interesting blog post slash column entitled "When Psychiatrists Distrust Their Patients, Their Patients Can Only Respond In Kind...
Sunday, January 18, 2015

VA to look into overmedication reports at Tomah center

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From an AP Report in the San Francisco Chronicle The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is launching an investigation into reports of ov...
Sunday, December 21, 2014

[BOOK] Brain Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry: Drugs, Electroshock, and the Psychopharmaceutical Complex

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Renowned psychiatrist Peter Breggin documents how psychiatric drugs and electroshock (ECT) disable the brain. He presents the latest scienti...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

In 2000, a study was done in which 20 healthy non-depressed volunteers were given the SSRI antidepressant Zoloft (Sertraline). Two weeks into the study two volunteers became dangerously suicidal.

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As reported in the Guardian on Sunday 21 May 2000 Much more info at the link Alarming evidence from a new British study shows that the P...
Tuesday, December 09, 2014

Drug Shills Dispensing Pills A psychiatrist questions Big Pharma’s influence on her profession.

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A recent article by Jean Kim in the magazine IN THESE TIMES Jean Kim is a psychiatrist and writer in Washington, D.C., who is finishing he...
Friday, November 28, 2014

Psychiatric drugs responsible for 90,000 hospital emergency room visits annually

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Just can across this recent report in the Formulary Journal from a few month back Psychiatric drugs responsible for 90,000 ED visits annual...
Friday, November 07, 2014

Robin Williams had the Anti-Depressant Mirtazapine in His Body When He Committed Suicide, According to Coroner's Toxicology Report

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Recent major news reports have said that there were no drugs in the body of Mr. Williams, according to the just released toxicology report f...
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Thursday, May 28, 2009

A Celebrity Patient's Backing Turns Sour for Drug Company

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The Wall Street Journal has published a revealing story about one of the seamier sides of the drug industry's marketing campaigns: payi...
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Thursday, February 26, 2009

FDA Approves Depressant Drug For The Annoyingly Cheerful

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A Satire from the Onion, although the way drug companies operate, it makes you wonder sometimes. FDA Approves Depressant Drug For The Annoyi...
Tuesday, February 24, 2009

More than half of all foster children in Texas above 6 are drugged, 41,3% of those who receive medication receive 3+ different classes of medicines

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Who are the real child abusers here? More than half of all foster children in Texas above 6 receive psychotropic medication, 41,3% of those ...
Wednesday, January 07, 2009

SSRI Pushers under Fire

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We now have another excellent story by Evelyn Pringle , as seen in the Scoop Independent News , and elsewhere. SSRI Pushers under Fire By Ev...
Saturday, October 18, 2008

Are Antidepressant Drugs Actually Worth Taking? A psychologist says secret corporate documents show how ineffective the drugs really are.

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As Seen in Discover Magazine THE STUDY "Initial Severity and Antidepressant Benefits: A Meta-Analysis of Data Submitted to the Food and...
Friday, September 26, 2008

Antidepressants may damage male fertility

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As reported via Reuters Common antidepressant drugs may reduce some men's fertility by damaging the DNA in their sperm, according to sc...
Monday, September 08, 2008

Placebo Effect In Depression Treatment Much Larger Than Previously Thought

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From a study in the August Journal of Psychiatric Research , seen via the Furious Season Weblog . here is the Abstract of the Paper Our obje...
Tuesday, August 05, 2008

A red flag about medicating young children

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A column from the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript by Bonnie Harris World-renowned Harvard child psychiatrist and director of the research team ...