Children Rx ADHD Drugs 7.4 times increased risk of sudden death
But FDA says keep taking the "medicines."
Did FDA Include Evidence of Brain Damage Caused by Antipsychotics?
Among the most damaging scientific evidence against the use of antipsychotic drugs is empirical evidence that they cause brain damage.
Is FDA Bipolar or Complicit in Legitimizing Illegal Marketing?
The FDA’s expanded marketing approval process for antipsychotics, highly toxic drugs, is unaffected by evidence uncovered by the US Justice Department showing that the studies submitted by drug manufacturers were often flawed, if not fraudulent.
Marketing Trumps Safety: the case of Antipsychotics
"The story’s pretty clear, and pretty embarrassing for the profession of psychiatry, which has allowed itself to be led by marketing," says Dr. Robert Rosenheck, Yale.
USA Today: Conflicts of interest bedevil psychiatric drug research
Psychiatry’s leadership is scrambling and fumbling in its effort to explain why it’s collusion with industry for pay is okay.
Rx for Antipsychotc Drugs for Children Begin To Decelerate_WSJ
This is a result of public awareness–thanks to information uncovered during litigation, by Sen. Charles Grassley’s investigative team, by whistleblowers, and the press!
Alaska Supreme Court Grants Mental Patients Constitutional Rights
Two news reports: Alaska Supreme Court decision and a JAMA report confirms that risk of violence among schizophrenia patients "was mostly confined to patients with substance abuse comorbidity."
Japan Revises SSRI Warnings–Hostility, Violence
The Japanes Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has investigated news reports about antidepressant users "who developed increased feelings of hostility or anxiety, and have even committed sudden acts of violence against others."
Army Report Finds Walter Reed Doctor Falsified Data
Colonel Coots: "It is a significant breach of academic protocol. It’s a breach of trust."
Systematic Review: Faulty Clinical Trial Analyses Favor new toxic drugs
Two important analyses in Open Medicine , a peer-reviewed, independent, open-access journal, focus on methodological flaws in data analysis of randomized drug trials.
Dartmouth Psychiatrist Facing Dept. of Justice Charges
"William Weeks, MD a professor of psychiatry and community and family medicine is facing federal conflict of interest charges" involving contract between the Veterans Affairs department and Dartmouth.
Texas Psychiatrist Karen Wagner Under Scrutiny
Sen. Charles Grassley’s focused investigation is clearly aimed at cleansing fraudulent, industry-crafted promotional pieces that have made a mockery of evidence-based clinical practice in psychiatry.