How drug lobbyists influence doctors
"Lobbyists influence how the government spends your money, but financially conflicted physicians can threaten your well-being."
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NYT Editorial Stimulant Warning
It is no longer possible not to notice the lack of medical justification for current psychotropic drug prescribing practices.
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ADHD Drug Risks: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Problems
"This is out-of-control use of drugs that have profound cardiovascular consequences. We have got a potential public health crisis. I think patients and families need to be made aware of these concerns."
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Safety of Newborn infants Threatened by Rx antidepressants during pregnancy
"During a hastily called press conference yesterday,” the FDA announced that it is considering ADDITIONAL warnings on the labels of SSRI drugs—Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, et al.
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Which is it—51 or 186 deaths linked to ADHD drugs?
Children have been dying from exposure to psychostimulant drugs as the FDA looked the other way:
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Israeli Study: One in 3 infants Suffer SSRI Withdrawal
It is astonishing how untrustworthy loosely given advice about the safety of SSRI antidepressants by medical professionals and academic institutions.
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Weighing the Benefits & Risks of SSRI Antidepressants for Youth
Parents, physicians and the public attempting to make sense of the controversy about antidepressants are torn between unproven claims and counter-claims about the drugs’ benefits and risks.
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Another Study Shows: Antipsychotic Trials Biased Towards Sponsor’s Drug
An independent review by a team of German analysts published in the American Journal of Psychiatry confirms that corporate bias is ubiquitous in clinical trials.
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Polypharm & New Antipsychotics Not More Beneficial-Just More Expensive
"modern pharmacological treatment may be no more beneficial than older ones, despite their added cost."
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Drug Safety Issues-IOM Panel Blasts FDA Advisory Committee Process
IOM committee members were highly critical of FDA’s advisory panels that regularly “recommend” approval without analyzing the safety data.
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Fight Was All About Scientific Integrity_Jonathan Fishbein
“Science has become so severely politicized that one has to be skeptical of nearly every research result that is reported.”
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Meta-analysis: Methods, strengths, weaknesses, and political uses
A critical examination of meta-analysis studies by John H. Noble, Jr, Ph.D, AHRP Treasurer