Grassley Probe: Pharma Provides 81% of NAMI Income
The $$$ amounts–one might call them, "fees for services rendered"–reveal the truth about who wields the greatest influence on NAMI policies–and whose interests are being served by NAMI.
In Medicine, the Power of No vs. Psychiatry’s Mass Overtreatment
Unlike patients in other fields of medicine, those who are designated mentally ill–or even declared to be "at risk" for mental illness in the future–are at once stigmatized and suffer losss of their autonomy.
Parity Likely to Increase Wholesale Sedation of Children
"For her last month of life, Kifuji overall prescribed 835 pills to Rebecca….If what Dr. Kifuji did in this case is the acceptable standard of care for children in Massachusetts, then there is something very wrong in this state."
US Gov Medical Experiment Radically Departs from medical “Best Practices”
The US government is initiating several radical medical experiments that will ensure widespread, increased use of mostly toxic drugs whose adverse effects trigger chronic, debilitating illnesses.
Judith Warner misses the real questions about medicating children
"Judith Warner’s book illustrates the perils of preferring stories to science."
Rebecca Riley’s Murderous Care Remembered
"Her mother’s murder trial has been over for a couple of weeks now, but I’m still haunted by little Rebecca Riley."
America’s Poor Children Likelier to Get Antipsychotics_NYT
A front page article in The New York Times raises the long-overdue alarms about the forced drugging of American children–in particular poor children who are condemned to ingest toxic neuroleptics (a.k.a. ‘atypical antipsychotics) at a rate four times higher than children whose parents have private insurance. These drugs qualify under…
Follow-up: Antipsychotics–Psychiatry’s Disregard for the life-threatening hazards
Corporate business ethics and investors’ interests have swept aside the humanitarian foundation of American medicine and most of related healthcare, and caring service professions.
Nursing Homes: Psychotropic Drug Abuse
In the first half of the twenty-first century, U.S. psychiatrists are prescribing the second generation neuroleptics—Zyprexa, Risperdal, Geodon, Seroquel, Abilfy—to coerce innocent children and the elderly into submission.
NAMI Constituency Betrayed
Sen. Grassley obtained documents confirming NAMI as a front group for pharma companies who underwrite ¾ of NAMI donations—in 2006 to 2008 that was a hefty $23 million.
Top FDA Officials, Compromised by Conflicts of Interest
Two high ranking FDA officials’ conflicts of interest have led one to resign, the other is under investigation by the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services:
Psychiatrist Steps to the Plate
Motherhood is NOT a Medical Disorder Stop: Mother’s Act