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Antipsychotics, Newer Isn’t BetterDrug_Washington Post front page
“a study published yesterday overturns conventional wisdom about antipsychotic drugs, which cost the United States $10 billion a year.”
Troubled Children Exposed to Psych Treatments Causing More Harm_ NYT
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 Cover story: Kids & Psychiatric Drugs: Big Pharma Comes to the Classroom
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!
FDA Strengthens Warnings on ADHD psychostimulant Drug Risks_NYT
The New York Times reports (below) that after months of foot dragging, the FDA has finally issued additional warnings on the labels of widely
prescribed psychostimulant drugs–Ritalin, Adderall, Concerta.
ADHD-Adderall Label Warnings Added Re: Cardiovascular, Psychosis
The American Society of Health System Pharmacists reports that the FDA "directed all makers of ADHD stimulants in May to strengthen the wording in the "Warnings" section of the labeling "with regard to serious cardiovascular events and psychiatric events."
A Matter of Disclosure: Shame on JAMA editor / Shame on Harvard Scientists / FDA Adds SSRIWarnings
The Associated Press reports (1, 2 below) that the FDA has just issued new warnings about two additional life-threatening risks induced by SSRI antidepressants: Serotonin Syndrome and Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension in newborn babies.
Health Canada Warns Heart Patients to AVOID ADHD Drugs
Health Canada has taken constructive step to warn people with high blood pressure, heart disease and other medical ailments NOT to take psychostimulant drugs–which are essentially amphetamines.
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.
An Out of Control Profession_NewScientist / Infant Mental Health Now Targeted by Psychiatry_MSNBC
A report in The New Scientist, "Prescribing of Hyperactivity Drugs is Out of Control," shows just how deviant U.S. prescribing of psychostimulants for
children is compared to the rest of the world.
Psychiatry’s “Desperate Cures?” Electric Switches for Depression?
An OpEd in The New York Times (below) is trumpeting psychiatry’s latest “cure” for depression: it requires surgical implantation of electrodes in the brain, continued “maintenance” with powerful psychotropic drugs, and it costs $40,000.
Pills Become Addictive Study Aid For Students (Adderall)
Amphetamines work like Cocaine–first and foremost, they are addictive. The psychostimulant drugs prescribed for millions of American children labeled ADHD, are amphetamines and are, therefore, addictive.