In a historic and precedent-setting decision, the Alaska Supreme Court affirmed that the forced administration of psychotropic drugs to patients is unconstitutional!!! : http://psychrights.org/States/Alaska/CaseOne/MyersOpinion.pdf
Compare and contrast two recent news reports about TeenScreen: Lidia Wasowicz of United Press International provides readers with a sense of the controversy generated by psychiatry’s latest market expansion scheme.
The FDA appears to have learned nothing from recent catastrophic disasters.
Once again, the New England Journal of Medicine (July 13, 2006) has had to eat crow after it published false and misleading clinical trial findings.
Medical journals are supposed to be vehicles for scientific give and take–not so, evidently, in journals of the American Psychiatric Association.
A team of researchers from Columbia University and the University of Toronto, headed by Dr. Timothy Walsh (New York) tested the effect of antidepressants in the treatment of anorexia in a placebo controlled randomized trial.
Dr. Trey Sunderland III, chief of the geriatric psychiatry branch at the National Institute of Mental Health, pled the Fifth amendment.
A front page report in The New York Times describes a psychotropic drug-induced catastrophe that has befallen patients who obeyed their
psychiatrists, and swallowed the antipsychotic drugs prescribed by psychiatrists who insisted the drugs were for the patients own good.
One day following a rport in The New York Times, Sanifo-Aventis, manufacturer of Ketek, suspended the trial in children. The FDA has not announced any action.
A provocative article by Dr. Joanna Moncrieff and Dr. David Cohen, PLOS Medicine, June 5.
This is documented evidence of major medical malpractice.
It is difficult to believe this latest announcement laying claim to a new "under treated" psychiatric disorder–Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED) is not a parody !!
