“To ghostwrite an entire textbook is a new level of chutzpah,” said Dr. David A. Kessler, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, after reviewing the documents. “I’ve never heard of that before. It takes your breath away.”
“The age of American children being medicated with prescription psychiatric drugs is getting younger and more widespread every year.”
An educator with an insightful sense of humor calls psychiatry’s proclivity to designate all manner of human behavior as pathological–an affront.
"Among all the problematic suggestions for DSM5, the proposal for a "Psychosis Risk Syndrome" stands out as the most ill–conceived and potentially harmful." Allen Frances, MD
"Judith Warner’s book illustrates the perils of preferring stories to science."
"Her mother’s murder trial has been over for a couple of weeks now, but I’m still haunted by little Rebecca Riley."
But FDA says keep taking the "medicines."
The FDA’s expanded marketing approval process for antipsychotics, highly toxic drugs, is unaffected by evidence uncovered by the US Justice Department showing that the studies submitted by drug manufacturers were often flawed, if not fraudulent.
The FDA has just approved the anitpsychotic drug, Fanapt (iloperidone) for adults with schizophrenia.
The drug, iloperidone, has a long history of failure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iloperidone :
AHRP proposes a multi-disciplinary team of independent scientists to review ALL of Dr. Joseph Biederman’s publications and supporting documents, including: research protocols, consent forms, and the original (of course, anonymized) data sets with associated code books for all pediatric studies.
Dr. Peter Slavin, president of Mass. General Hospital: "We don’t want our faculty being on the road as hired guns."
