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"Lobbyists influence how the government spends your money, but financially conflicted physicians can threaten your well-being."
It is no longer possible not to notice the lack of medical justification for current psychotropic drug prescribing practices.
"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."
"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.
Children have been dying from exposure to psychostimulant drugs as the FDA looked the other way:
It is astonishing how untrustworthy loosely given advice about the safety of SSRI antidepressants by medical professionals and academic institutions.
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.
"modern pharmacological treatment may be no more beneficial than older ones, despite their added cost."
IOM committee members were highly critical of FDA’s advisory panels that regularly “recommend” approval without analyzing the safety data.
“Science has become so severely politicized that one has to be skeptical of nearly every research result that is reported.”
