Child’s Ordeal Shows Risks of Antipsychotic Drugs for Young
The prescribed drugs transformed Kyle Warren from a rambunctious healthy child into a drooling, sedated, obese, “shell.”
New Alarm Bells Re: Chemicals & Cancer
An authoritative report by the President’s Cancer Panel, validates the concerns of independent critics who have warned about the serious health hazards posed by toxic chemicals which are blamed for the alarming rates of cancer.
12-Year Old Denis Matez: Dead of Psych Drug Cocktail Rx by Psychiatrist
Twelve-year old, Denis Matez (weighing 68 lbs) is a human casualty of psychotropic drug "overmedication"– a notorious psychiatrist entrusted with the care of 800 Florida children in Florida foster care prescribed lethal mega doses for unapproved uses.
“Psychosis Risk Syndrome”– Psychiatry’s Hunting License
"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 misses the real questions about medicating children
"Judith Warner’s book illustrates the perils of preferring stories to science."
GMC Damning Wakefield Verdict Does Not Address Autism-Vaccine Validity
Given multiple prior investigations of Dr. Wakefied’s 1998 paper, why did it take the Lancet editors 12 years to discover a lack of proper IRB approval?
DSM5 Revisions
"Anything you put in that book, any little change you make, has huge implications not only for psychiatry but for pharmaceutical marketing, research, for the legal system, for who’s considered to be normal or not, for who’s considered disabled," said Dr. Michael First, professor of psychiatry at Columbia University who edited the DSM4l but is not involved in the DSM5.
America’s Poor Children Likelier to Get Antipsychotics_NYT
A front page article in The New York Times raises the long-overdue alarms about the forced drugging of American children–in particular poor children who are condemned to ingest toxic neuroleptics (a.k.a. ‘atypical antipsychotics) at a rate four times higher than children whose parents have private insurance. These drugs qualify under…
Pfizer’s $2.3 Billion Settlement Leaves Victims in the lurch
Pfizer, the world’s largest drug manufacturer has the dubious distinction of being a corporate "repeat offender…"
Marketing Trumps Safety: the case of Antipsychotics
"The story’s pretty clear, and pretty embarrassing for the profession of psychiatry, which has allowed itself to be led by marketing," says Dr. Robert Rosenheck, Yale.
Rx for Antipsychotc Drugs for Children Begin To Decelerate_WSJ
This is a result of public awareness–thanks to information uncovered during litigation, by Sen. Charles Grassley’s investigative team, by whistleblowers, and the press!
Florida Antipsychotic Pre-Approval Requirement Protects PreschoolChildren
The State of Florida has established a pre-approval requirement to protect preschool children on Medicaid from being exposed to the hazardous effects of antipsychotic drugs. That step has prompted "a seismic change" in doctors’ inappropriate prescribing of antipsychotics for preschool children: the number of prescriptions for this age group has…