Checklist for Camp: Bug Spray, Sunscreen, Pills
A front page article in The New York Times reports: "The breakfast buffet at Camp Echo starts at a picnic table covered in gingham-patterned oil cloth.
Harvard / Stanford–Psychiatrists’ Financial Ties to Industry
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.
Russian Suicide Rate Falling__PetionOnline Stop TeenScreen
Agence France Presse reports that suicide rates in Russia have decreased. Not surprisingly the highest suicide rate in Russia is in Siberia.
Alaska Supreme Court Strikes Down Forced Psychiatric Drugging–it’s Unconstitutional!
In a historic and precedent-setting decision, the Alaska Supreme Court affirmed that the forced administration of psychotropic drugs to patients is unconstitutional!!! : http://psychrights.org/States/Alaska/CaseOne/MyersOpinion.pdf
Amer J Psychiatry Editor Blocks Scientific Debate
Medical journals are supposed to be vehicles for scientific give and take–not so, evidently, in journals of the American Psychiatric Association.
Controlled Trial: Antidepressants Useless to Treat Anorexia–Risk: 1 of 49 Attempted Suicide
A team of researchers from Columbia University and the University of Toronto, headed by Dr. Timothy Walsh (New York) tested the effect of antidepressants in the treatment of anorexia in a placebo controlled randomized trial.
Drug-induced Diabetes “One More Burden for the Mentally Ill”
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.
“Do Antidepressants Cure or Create Abnormal Brain States?”
A provocative article by Dr. Joanna Moncrieff and Dr. David Cohen, PLOS Medicine, June 5.
Intermittent Explosive Disorder-a parody
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 !!
Columbia U Study: Five-fold Increase Rx of Antipsychotics for children
This is documented evidence of major medical malpractice.
$29 Million Donations Tie Drug Firms and Nonprofits_Philadelphia Inquirer
An investigative report in The Philadelphia Inquirer examined pharmaceutical company ties to six, tax exempt organziations that identify themselves as “patient advocacy” groups, "Each a leading advocate for patients in a disease area.”
ADHD drugs send thousands to hospital ERs
The American Psychiatric Association and child psychiatrists in particular are on a collision course: