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.
Columbia U Study: Five-fold Increase Rx of Antipsychotics for children
This is documented evidence of major medical malpractice.
Informed Consent: You Have the Right to Know
Informed Consent: The Subject’s Right to Know Here’s what you should ask before you decide to give your informed consent to research. A 1999 report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), “To Err is Human,” brought to light the magnitude of preventable deaths resulting from medical errors The IOM report…
Health Canada Warns Heart Patients to AVOID ADHD Drugs
Health Canada has taken constructive step to warn people with high blood pressure, heart disease and other medical ailments NOT to take psychostimulant drugs–which are essentially amphetamines.
ADHD drugs send thousands to hospital ERs
The American Psychiatric Association and child psychiatrists in particular are on a collision course:
Disease Mongering_Conference / PLoS Special Issue
"Are we becoming patients for profit? That is the question knowledgeable observers are asking.
British Rethinking Rules After Ill-Fated Drug Trial_NYT
A front page report in The New York Times provides additonal information about the catastrophic TGN1412 medical experiment in which 6 previously healthy volunteers were intravenously injected with monoclonal antibody in a highly risky procedure.
Pharma company Influence Medical Education Promotes OffLabel Use of Antipsychotic
Psychiatry’s professional practice paradigm has received a major blow.
An Out of Control Profession_NewScientist / Infant Mental Health Now Targeted by Psychiatry_MSNBC
A report in The New Scientist, "Prescribing of Hyperactivity Drugs is Out of Control," shows just how deviant U.S. prescribing of psychostimulants for
children is compared to the rest of the world.
Pills Become Addictive Study Aid For Students (Adderall)
Amphetamines work like Cocaine–first and foremost, they are addictive. The psychostimulant drugs prescribed for millions of American children labeled ADHD, are amphetamines and are, therefore, addictive.
Addictive Qualities of Modafinil Not Discussed by FDA Advisory
The focus of a recent FDA’s Psychopharmacology Advisory Committee meeting, was the drug, modafinil (as Sparlon), for ADHD and the risk of
Steven-Johnson’s, a rare but potentially fatal, skin condition.
“Some of the children were prescribed anti-psychotics, rather than discontinued from ADHD therapy.”
"That thing I’m worried about…where the MedGuide would help, where it might even warrant a black box, if this is common, where somebody hallucinates and then gets put on an anti-psychotic drug. That would really be something worth making sure it doesn’t happen,"