April 16, 2010

Specific Anticonvulsants Increase Suicide Risk

The Harvard study,  published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, evaluated 827 suicidal acts (801

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Specific Anticonvulsants Increase Suicide Risk

April 8, 2010

In Medicine, the Power of No vs. Psychiatry’s Mass Overtreatment

New York Times columnist, David Leonhardt, applauds the new Medicare policy inaugurating comparative risk/ benefit analyses of

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In Medicine, the Power of No vs. Psychiatry’s Mass Overtreatment

April 3, 2010

An Educator Asks: Is Psychiatry a Disorder in Need of Treatment?

Dr. Stephen Murgatroyd notes that psychiatry’s diagnostic bible, the DSM, is "By no stretch of the imagination

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An Educator Asks: Is Psychiatry a Disorder in Need of Treatment?

March 30, 2010

Parity Likely to Increase Wholesale Sedation of Children

Over the years, as he witnessed the wholesale practice of sedating young children with powerful toxic, psychotropic

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Parity Likely to Increase Wholesale Sedation of Children

March 23, 2010

“Psychosis Risk Syndrome”– Psychiatry’s Hunting License

Following the acknowledgement reported by The New York Times (Feb. 10, 2010), that "Studies of teenagers identified

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“Psychosis Risk Syndrome”– Psychiatry’s Hunting License

February 25, 2010

Judith Warner misses the real questions about medicating children

The publication of “We’ve Got Issues,” a book of stories by Judith Warner, a regular New York

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Judith Warner misses the real questions about medicating children

February 22, 2010

Rebecca Riley’s Murderous Care Remembered

While it came as no surprise that Rebecca Riley’s mother was convicted of murder, most observers–including, it

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Rebecca Riley’s Murderous Care Remembered

February 10, 2010

DSM5 Revisions

A report in the New York Times "Revising Book on Disorders of the Mind" by Benedict Carey

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DSM5 Revisions

December 11, 2009

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

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America’s Poor Children Likelier to Get Antipsychotics_NYT

September 3, 2009

Pfizer’s $2.3 Billion Settlement Leaves Victims in the lurch

The level of corruption that the pharmaceutical industry engages in–with assistance by prominent academic physicians who prostitute

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Pfizer’s $2.3 Billion Settlement Leaves Victims in the lurch

September 1, 2009

Ghostwritten reports corrupt science, undermine public health

Pharmaceutical companies are in business to sell their drugs at prices that will yield the highest profit.

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Ghostwritten reports corrupt science, undermine public health

August 18, 2009

Top FDA Officials, Compromised by Conflicts of Interest

Dr. Daniel Schultz, who has been FDA’s chief medical device official, is the first high ranking FDA

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Top FDA Officials, Compromised by Conflicts of Interest

August 16, 2009

FDA Approves Another Dangerous Antipsychotic, Asenapine

The FDA has approved Schering Plough’s new antipsychotic, asenapine (Saphris), for the treatment of schizophrenia and mania

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FDA Approves Another Dangerous Antipsychotic, Asenapine

June 18, 2009

Gene Theory for Depression Is Now Discredited

A study that attempted to replicate the “seminal” study that laid the foundation for psychiatry’s “serotonin theory”

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Gene Theory for Depression Is Now Discredited