Pharma Spin Childhood Suicide Rates
Today’s news reports about an increase suicide rate in 2004 offer an opportunity to witness how the media unwittingly disseminates pharmaceutical industry generated propaganda.
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Public Testimonies at FDA-SSRI-Suicidality Hearings, Dec. 13, 2006
Only if one assumes that the FDA sees the drug industry as its client can some sense be made of December 13th meeting of the FDA’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee in Silver Springs, Maryland.
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Former State Pharmacist (Pennsylvania) Faces Criminal charges
Steven Fiorello, former Chief Pharmacist for the State of Pennsylvania, was arraigned on on Tuesday, November 21, 2006, on Felony and Misdemeanor charges related to his accepting money from drug companies whose drugs he put on the state Formulary.
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Psychiatry operates within a pre-Copernican framework of science
Dr. E. Jane Costello, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University, acknowledges: “The system of diagnosis is still 200 to 300 years behind other branches of medicine.” Psychiatry also fails to be guided by an evidence-based positive benefit / risk assessment of its prescribed treatments.
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Cal. NAACP Resolution: End Use of Psyc Drugs on FosterYouth
AHRP applauds the California chapter of the NAACP for unanimously passing a resolution to end the abusive prescribing of psychotropic drugs for children in foster care!
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AHRP Position Statement on Mental Health Screening – FDA Hearing Re: Drug Advertising
AHRP Position Statement on Mental Health Screening – FDA Hearing Re: Drug Advertising Wed, 02 Nov 2005 FDA is holding public hearings (Nov 1, 2) Re:Â Direct-to-Consumer Promotion of Medical Products at: National Transportation Safety Board Boardroom and Conference Center 429 L’Enfant Plaza, SW., Washington, DC 2 Time: 9:00 –5:00….
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Pittman-Zoloft Trial to begin_ Another Boy on Prozac is Charged in Father’s Slaying – AP
Pittman-Zoloft Trial to begin_ Another Boy on Prozac is Charged in Father’s Slaying – AP Sun, 30 Jan 2005 The Associated Press reports about a homicide case (below) – this time involving a 10 year old boy who is charged with killing his father. AP reports that the child was…
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Daniel Troy Legacy: Public Virtually Defenseless against Unsafe Drugs
Daniel Troy Legacy: Public Virtually Defenseless against Unsafe Drugs Thu, 18 Nov 2004 The Associated Press reports that at a Congressional hearing today, Dr. David Graham a drug safety expert at the FDA told the Senate Finance Committee that the public is “virtually defenseless” if another medication such as Vioxx…
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FDA Public Health Advisory: SSRI-Suicide link in adults
FDA Public Health Advisory: SSRI-Suicide link in adults Wed, 20 Jul 2005 The American Medical Association is attempting to trivialize the hazards of prescribing SSRIs to children, urging physicians not to allow the evidence to interfere with their prescribing habits. See: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/print/15186.html The AMA has done the public a disservice…
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NIMH Offers Grants to Study SSRI relation to Suicidality – FDA to Examine SSRI- Suicide in Adults
NIMH Offers Grants to Study SSRI relation to Suicidality_FDA to Examine SSRI- Suicide in Adults Mon, 14 Nov 2005 A fifteen year struggle by critics of the drug-centered treatment paradigm in psychiatry is being indirectly validated both by the FDA and the National Institute of Mental Health who are addressing…
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Lilly Withdraws Duloxetine Application from FDA
Lilly Withdraws Duloxetine Application from FDA Fri, 28 Jan 2005 Eli Lilly and Boeringer Ingelheim have jointly announced that they have recinded their U.S. FDA Application for Duloxetine for Treatment of Stress Urinary Incontinence. http://newsroom.lilly.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=154081&print=yes Withdrawal of an application from FDA approval process is usually the result of the manufacturer’s…
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Black Box Warnings for Antidepressants – What’s Next?
Black Box Warnings for Antidepressants – What’s Next? Thu, 16 Sep 2004 NY TIMES Quotations of the Day: A. “I think that we now all believe that there is an increase in suicidal thinking and action that is consistent across all the drugs.” Dr. ROBERT TEMPLE, of the Food and…