DAWN: “Disposition of Emergency Department Visits for Drug-Related Suicide Attempts by Adolescents:
A report by the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), reveals some sobering facts about teenage suicide attempts that involve drugs.
Poison Chalice–TGN1412_Sunday Times UK
All six healthy volunteers near death from catastrophic experiment–TGN1412.
Weighing the Benefits & Risks of SSRI Antidepressants for Youth
Parents, physicians and the public attempting to make sense of the controversy about antidepressants are torn between unproven claims and counter-claims about the drugs’ benefits and risks.
Jane Pauley- from Steroids to mania to depression to Bi-Polar-to Drugs for Life
"After another four months or so on antidepressants, bringing me to a total of 10 months between the steroids and antidepressants, I was suddenly flipped into this hypomania."
Scientific integrity: ?Truth? versus method
"This is a critical moment: if the system of peer-review is not any longer able to guarantee the reliability of scientific research, this means that science has lost its way."
Depression-Serotonin: How Did So Many Smart People Get it So Wrong?_WSJ
"Serotonin and depression: A disconnect between the advertisements and the scientific literature."
"Some 19 million people in the U.S. suffer from depression in any given year. For many, SSRIs help little, if at all. To do better, we have to get the science right." Sharon Begley, Wall Street Journal
Doctors, Too, Ask: Is This Drug Right?
Doctors, Too, Ask: Is This Drug Right? Thu, 30 Dec 2004 Much to their professional embarassment, doctors are finding that they have been fed a pack of lies by smooth talking pharmaceutical company sales reps, who persuaded them that the new, and (always) more expensive drugs provided a greater benefit…
US Epidemic: Controlled Prescription Drug Abuse–Teen Drug Abuse Triples in 10 Years – CASA
US Epidemic: Controlled Prescription Drug Abuse–Teen Drug Abuse Triples in 10 Years_CASA Sat, 9 Jul 2005 “Our nation is in the throes of an epidemic of controlled prescription drug abuse and addiction,” said Joseph A. Califano, Jr., CASA’s chairman and president and former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare….
Prozac in Drinking Water / Prozac in Streams Hurt Frogs fish / Newborns suffer Withdrawal
Prozac in Drinking Water / Prozac in Streams Hurt Frogs fish / Newborns suffer Withdrawal Tue, 10 Aug 2004 An article in the UK Observer–“Stay calm everyone, there’s Prozac in the drinking water” (below) — reports that British environmentalists are calling for an “urgent investigation into the revelations, describing the…
Rehnquist Warns Drug Makers _Marketing Actimune for Unapproved Use_NYT
Rehnquist Warns Drug Makers _Marketing Actimune for Unapproved Use_NYT Mon, 28 Apr 2003 1. The New York Times reports that Janet Rehnquist, the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services, has issued “a compliance guide for drug manufacturers” in which they are waned that many of their…
Death & Other Problems at Fargo VA Research Detroit_BNA
Death & Other Problems at Fargo VA Research Detroit_BNA Mon, 21 Apr 2003 Medical research at the Department of Veterans Affairs appears to be in disarray–veterans’ lives are at serious risk in an environment that does not take seriously federal safety requirements. It is apparent that during its tenure as…
2000 Study by Merck Showed Vioxx Risk: Results Not Given to FDA – Star Ledger
2000 Study by Merck Showed Vioxx Risk: Results Not Given to FDA – Star Ledger Sun, 3 Jul 2005 News reports reveal that Merck failed to disclose Vioxx lethal effects to the FDA. Sheldon Krimsky, a science policy expert at Tufts University states: “if there was evidence the drug was…