The most striking acknowledgement in this sad story underscores the shaky foundation upon which the field of child psychiatry rests is the following statement by a Harvard University child psychiatrist: "When she was almost 8… Haley met full criteria for virtually every mental disorder listed."
Alternative Medicine is a national magazine with 165,000 subscribers. It is also sold nationwide on newsstands. Its cover story, Nov/Dec, is Kids & Psychiatric Drugs: BIG PHARMA comes to the classroom!
Dr. Sanghavi provides us with a statistical reality-check by which to gauge for ourselves whether or not we should–or need not–take a octor’s advice about starting a medical treatment for a speculated risk–rather than evidence of illness.
Pharmaceutical industry corrupt practices are in evidence again, and again, and again.
USA Today reports that last year the pharmaceutical industry "faced the most product liability lawsuits of any other industry."
An editorial in today's New York Times is a follow-up to its riveting report by Ian Urbina on the recommendation by an Institute of Medicine panel to
lift 1978 federal restrictions on medical experiments on prisoners. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/13/us/13inmates.html?
8, 362 consumers of Lilly’s top-selling drug that produces diabetes–among other life-threatening effects–can expect between $5,000 to "well over $100,000 a person" depending upon the harm suffered.
The full impact on six healthy volunteers who took part in a catastrophic experiment that nearly killed them is ever so slowly coming to light.
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present , by Professor Roy Porter , Fontana, Press , 1997. Below are a few–still very relevant–quotes…
Two probing first rate investigative reports document how psychiatry’s treatments are shaped by "opinion leaders" whose professional recommendations are compromised by their substantial, largely undisclosed, financial ties to drug companies.
A front page report in The New York Times describes a psychotropic drug-induced catastrophe that has befallen patients who obeyed their
psychiatrists, and swallowed the antipsychotic drugs prescribed by psychiatrists who insisted the drugs were for the patients own good.
It is difficult to believe this latest announcement laying claim to a new "under treated" psychiatric disorder–Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED) is not a parody !!
