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NIMH-funded antidepression drug efficacy / safety studies_What do they prove?

Two studies purporting to report “new encouraging” findings about the efficacy and safety of antidepressantsas tested in the “real world”were published on Sunday by The American Journal of Psychiatry with an accompanying editorial by Dr. Thomas Insel, director of these studies’ funding agency, the National Institute of Mental Health.

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AHRP Testimonies and Presentations

AHRP Testimonies and Presentations Sep 8, 2005: AHRP Testimony: NYS Hearing –AIDS Drug /Vaccine Experiments on Foster Children July 18, 2005: Cheaper than Chimpanzees Statement by Vera Hassner Sharav before the Committee on Ethical Consideration for Revisions to DHHS Regulations on Protection of Prisoners Involved in Research July 2- 8, 2005:…

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America’s Overmedicated Children – Vera Sherav

AMERICA’S OVERMEDICATED CHILDREN By Vera Sharav YOUTH and MEDICINES in June 1-3, 2005 KILEN: Consumers Institute for Medicines and Health SWEDEN “Forgotten Children” is an investigative report by Carole Keeton Strayhorn,[1] the Texas Comptroller (2004) who uncovered evidence that 60% of children in the Texas foster care system are being…

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Dying to be Famous? Shooting Fuels Debate Over Safety of Prozac for Teens

Dying to be Famous? Shooting Fuels Debate Over Safety of Prozac for Teens Sun, 27 Mar 2005 An Op Ed in The New York Times by Lionel Shriver (from London), dismisses the notion promulgated by the mental health industry–which is under the influence of drug companies–that “early signs” in troubled…

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MAD IN AMERICA – important new book

January 7, 2002 FYI MAD IN AMERICA (Perseus Press), a new book by Robert Whitaker, a prize winning science journalist, is sure to cause a stir. Whitaker holds psychiatry’s feet to the fire by examining the evidence in the professional psychiatric literature, FDA documents, published treatment outcome studies–including the World…

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Chemically Induced Psychosis Experiments

Chemically Induced Psychosis Experiments: An Inhumane Paradigm in Psychiatric Research Congressional Testimony submitted by Vera Sharav * February 2, 2000 Statement For the Record Submitted To U.S. Senate Sub-Committee: Public Health & Safety of the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee Hearing Our efforts helped bring to public attention…

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Evidence of Neuroleptic Drug-Induced Brain Damage

Evidence of Neuroleptic Drug-Induced Brain Damage in Patients: A partial, Annotated Bibliography by Vera Hassner Sharav ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP) 142 West End Ave. Suite 28P New York, NY 10023 212-595-8974 FAX: 212-595-9086 e-mail: veracare@rcn.com For distribution: January, 2000 Although patients, families and the public were not informed…