Don’t Medicate Away Student Angst – Chronicle Higher Ed Sun, 15 Jun 2003 The Chronicle of Higher Education has published a superb essay by Joli Jensen, a professor of communications from the University of Tulsa. Jensen recognizes the harmful effects of medicating students to suppress their experience of normal, turbulent,…
September 16 2002 Note: Paroxetine Hydrochloride is also known as Seroxat or Paxil 800 hooked on drug seek legal action Patients say warning on side effects inadequate The Guardian Sarah Boseley, health editor More than 800 men and women who have found themselves hooked on the antidepressant Seroxat are seeking…
Mental Health Screening: A Form of Child Abuse–Children Drugged Without Parental Consent Tue, 19 Apr 2005 The documented case report of Aliah Gleason, a 13 year old Texas school girl, provides shocking hard evidence revealing the true threat to children’s mental health and safety. The worst thing that can happen…
Janssen Pharma Admits Hiding Risperdal Drug Risks / TMAP & Illinois Mental Health Screening Plan Sat, 24 Jul 2004 The Miami Herald reports (below) that in a letter to doctors, Janssen Pharmacia, manufacturer of the highly promoted drug, Risperdal (risperidone), admitted “misleading doctors and other healthcare providers about the safety…
Frontline: Dangerous Prescription Fri, 14 Nov 2003 Frontline, of Public Broadcasting System aired an investigative news report on Thursday that focused on the FDA’s systemic failure to protect the public from hazardous drugs. FDA had approved at least 12 dangerous prescription drugs–the “dirty dozen”–that killed people before the FDA ordered…
Auditing Standards in Accounting and Medicine Wed, 4 Jun 2003 “Those financial calamities made it brutally clear that the present audit standards and practices are severely deficient, since the failing enterprises had managed to issue misleading financial reports that nevertheless were attested to and blessed at the time by “see…
Lilly's aggressive marketing of Xigris does indeed epitomize the worst ofthis industry's mission.
Two especially timely conferences focus on MEDICINE AND THE LAW:
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!
Evidence of an association between violence and widely prescribed antidepressant drugs is the focus of this Infomail.
Psychiatry’s most powerful and influential key opinion leaders who belong to the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) have been caught off guard. The ACNP leadership is scrambling to overcome the scorn it has received following public disclosure about multiple breaches of ethics and professional standards of conduct. The College and…
A notice from The American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, the inner sanctum of biological–predominantly drug-centered psychiatry–informs the
membership of the resignation of Dr. Charles Nemeroff, the Editor-in-Chief of its journal, Neuropsychopharmacology.
