Drugging Our Kids, The Mercury News
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Drugging Our Kids, The Mercury News

Public health policies encourage the misuse of public funds for expensive, harm-producing psychotropic drugs. Government agencies are funding the abuse of America’s children in foster care who are subjected to assaultive prescription orders by psychiatrists. These drugs and prescribed combination of these drugs are seriously undermining children’s mental and physical…

Meryl Nass, MD

How I almost got charged $200 for an $8 prescription

Whereas government agencies in Canada, Australia European countries set limits on the cost of prescription drugs, in the United States, thanks to a laissez faire government pass, pharmaceutical companies are encouraged to set prescription drug prices however high they wish without any limits. This is an unsustainable public policy. (Read…

N.I.H. Seeks OK to Fund Human-Animal Stem Cell Experiments
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N.I.H. Seeks OK to Fund Human-Animal Stem Cell Experiments

Beware the month of August – when Congress and many citizens are vacationing! Government bureaucrats favor August to issue announcements about radical medical research policy changes, for which taxpayer money is sought. They do so, to avoid public controversy about public funding of radical experimentation…

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June 2016: European Meeting Re: Psychiatry in Crisis?

In his article in the BMJ, “Psychiatry in crisis? Dr. Richard Smith, former editor of the BMJ (British Medical Journal) summarizes the message delivered by several speakers at a meeting also convened in June 2016. This meeting took place in Leiden, the Netherlands; it focused on some of psychiatry’s serious…

May 2016: The State of Psychiatry — Child Psychiatrists at APA Meeting 
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May 2016: The State of Psychiatry — Child Psychiatrists at APA Meeting 

Child psychiatrists at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Atlanta, in May 2016, called for “big solutions to improving child mental health care,” recommending an aggressive drug algorithm approach for children. (Psychiatric News, June 16, 2016) This is a not very subtle effort to resuscitate the notorious…

SRF Schweiz: Medikamentenversuche an Menschen

July 8, 2016: Swiss Public Television SRF uncovered evidence that “human rights were breached” in non-consensual drug tests conducted on patients at a psychiatric clinic in Herisau, Switzerland in the 1950s. The experimental drug Tofanil was tested in pre-marketing trials on behalf of its manufacturer Geigy. Medical documents reveal that…

Woman died after electric shock therapy — another casualty of psychiatry’s interventions

Woman died after electric shock therapy — another casualty of psychiatry’s interventions

UK Mirror, March 2016: “Woman Died After NHS Electric Shock Therapy Was Given Without Consent or Second Opinion” Senior Coroner Derek Winter, expressed concern to the UK Health Secretary about the circumstances that resulted in the death of a mentally ill woman after she was subjected to Electroshock without her…

Medical Research — Peeling the Onion from the Inside Out
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Medical Research — Peeling the Onion from the Inside Out

A book review by AHRP board member, John J Noble Jr, Emeritus Professor, was recently published in the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics. The book, Reducing Adverse Events in Older Patients Taking Newly Released Drugs by Margaret T. Whitstock, an Australian research professional, is an indictment of the the U.S. Food…

Deadly Psychiatry and Organised Denial by Dr. Peter Gøtzsche
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Deadly Psychiatry and Organised Denial by Dr. Peter Gøtzsche

Professor Peter Gøtzsche, a leading researcher who heads the Nordic Cochrane Centre, the Scandinavian arm of the Collaboration, a center for independent researchers who analyze published medical research reports and freely disseminate their findings. It should be noted that as a doctor of internal medicine, his introduction into psychiatry’s barren…

A Bioethicist’s Voice in the Wilderness
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A Bioethicist’s Voice in the Wilderness

Carl Elliott, MD, who has  the moral gumption to stand up and speak out against “the toads and bullies who preside over academic medical centers” — including his own institution’s deplorable, but profitable human experiments in psychiatry —  is especially revolted by the hucksters who call themselves bioethicists. In a…

A Recent Deadly Drug Experiment – BIA 10-2474 – Rennes, France
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A Recent Deadly Drug Experiment – BIA 10-2474 – Rennes, France

Stakeholders in the Medical research enterprise, in the European Union and in the U.S., claim that clinical trials conducted on human subjects adhere to strict safety standards. “One of the things that sets clinical trials apart from other scientific experiments is the obligation for care. Investigators undertaking them have obligations…

NYU Medical School Shut Down Eight Studies in Psychiatry
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NYU Medical School Shut Down Eight Studies in Psychiatry

On June 27, 2016, The New York Times reported that New York University medical school “quietly shut down eight studies at its prominent psychiatric research center” and dismissed Dr. Alexander Neumeister, the studies’ lead investigator was the director of the Molecular Imaging Program for Mood and Anxiety Disorders, and a…