ADHD drugs send thousands to hospital ERs
The American Psychiatric Association and child psychiatrists in particular are on a collision course:
Oregon Preschoolers Rx ‘adult’ psychotropic drugs_Portland Tribune
In the U.S. the two populations at greatest risk of inappropriate, coercive, dangerous prescribing of highly toxic psychotropic drugs as chemical
restraints are the elderly and children.
Disease Mongering_Conference / PLoS Special Issue
"Are we becoming patients for profit? That is the question knowledgeable observers are asking.
Pharma company Influence Medical Education Promotes OffLabel Use of Antipsychotic
Psychiatry’s professional practice paradigm has received a major blow.
CATIE study results Contradict Current Clinical Practice & Treatment Guidelines
Newly published results (phase II) from the CATIE schizophrenia treatment efficacy study sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health comparing the most commonly used second generation drug treatments for schizophrenia and depression, is highly disturbing.
India: Guinea Pig to the World_Wired Mag
The pharmaceutical industry’s dilemma: there are few volunteers in the drug-consuming prosperous countries–so they have taken half their business to underdeveloped countries.
Grassley to HHS Secretary: OHRP calls Blood Experiment UNETHICAL, Unapprovable
In a blistering letter addressed to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Senator Grassley calls upon Michael Leavitt to give “immediate attention” to the serious issues raised by a Northfield Laboratory, non-consensual artificial blood experiment.
Out of Control: AIDS and the corruption of medical science
OUT OF CONTROL: AIDS and the corruption of medical science, By Celia Farber in the current issue of Harper’s magazine.
The Drug Pushers by Carl Elliott Atlantic Monthly
A must read article by Carl Elliott, MD, Ph.D in the Atlantic Monthly provides the best insight into how pharmaceutical drug reps operate and the milieu in which today’s physicians practice
OHRP Response to AHRP Complaint & AHRP Reply
Did OHRP conduct an investigation of the PolyHeme blood experiment and did OHRP issue a report of its findings?
Comparison of Suicide Rates in Treated Schizophrenia Patients Found 20-Fold Increase
An analysis published in the current issue of the British J of Psychiatry (BJP) of the suicide rate among schizophrenia patients treated at the same hospital in North Wales (UK) before psychotropic drugs and patients treated (in and out of hospital) with neuroleptics and /or atypical antipsychotics, found a 20-fold increase in the suicide rate since use of psychotropic drugs.
Polypharm & New Antipsychotics Not More Beneficial-Just More Expensive
"modern pharmacological treatment may be no more beneficial than older ones, despite their added cost."