Texas Attorney General Joins Whistleblower Lawsuit against J & J
Two ground breaking legal actions in Texas to rein in out of control psychotropic drug prescribing will have nationwide reverberations.
Assaultive Prescribing of Psych Drugs for Children
Australian psychiatrist: "Does anyone else see tardive dysmentia after atypicalantipsychotics?"
U.S. Doctors are prescribing the antidepressant, Effexor (150mg) for infants under age one!
Zyprexa Drug Rep Video on YouTube
A video you MUST SEE–an ex-Zyprexa sales rep spills the beans!
New Schizophrenia Drugs No Better Than CheaperGenerics_Bloomberg_WashPost
U.S. State Attorneys General should investigate the fraudulent marketing of the atypical neuroleptic drugs-and FDA's role in helping conceal the truth.
Psychiatric Drug Mix for Young On Shaky Grounds_ NYTimes
The lead story in The New York Times on Thanksgiving day (below) acknowledged several facts demonstrating that children are the victims of major medical malpractice:
Psychiatry operates within a pre-Copernican framework of science
Dr. E. Jane Costello, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University, acknowledges: “The system of diagnosis is still 200 to 300 years behind other branches of medicine.” Psychiatry also fails to be guided by an evidence-based positive benefit / risk assessment of its prescribed treatments.
Psychiatrist Challenges Ethics of Yale Drug Experiment
The ethics of this radical drug experiment is being challenged by Dr. Jerald Block, a forthright psychiatrist and experienced system's analyst. His critical appraisal, published in the Bioethics Forum, Hastings Center Report.
Yale Psychiatric Institute, PRIME clinic
Disease mongering: " This program has been developed for people who, while in the prime of their lives, are at high risk for developing a debilitating mental illness."
Big Pharma Cashing In Like Robber Barrons on Medicare Rx Drug Law_NYT
The New York Times reports: "For big drug companies, the new Medicare prescription benefit is proving to be a financial windfall larger than even the most optimistic Wall Street analysts had predicted."
Scientific Fraud: Eric Poehlman / Richard Borison
Medical researchers who commit fraud and research misconduct are caught only when a person of conscience steps up to the plate and blows the whistle. There are no systemic, independent checks and balances to prevent research fraud or abuse of patients.
Schizophrenia Drug Implants May Qualify as Medical Torture
Schizophrenia Drug Implants May Qualify as Medical Torture Sun, 17 Nov 2002 In some patients, antipsychotic drugs induce excruciating, intolerable side-effects. In some people these drugs’ toxic action has caused severe liver, heart, and kidney damage, as well as dangerously high blood pressure– some patients have died as a result…
Corporate influence on medicine, budgets & investors
July 14, 2002 Corporate Influence on Medicine, Healthcare Budgets, Investors FYI Because medicine’s pronouncements are so widely propagated and affect so many people’s lives, corporate influence and manipulation of the truth is more devastating than mere corporate accounting malfeasance. Recent revelations demonstrate how corporate influence and greed – rather than…