by Jacob Sullum Citizens Commission on Human Rights Several interesting articles about the upcoming revisions to psychiatry’s diagnostic manual, for the new DSM 5. The next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, scheduled to be published a year from now, is expected to include a looser definition of addiction that will [...]

Health Impact News Editor Comment: In 2011 Health Impact News was one of the first news sources to cover the story of Maryanne Godboldo, a Detroit home-school mother who refused to give her child powerful anti-psychotic drugs after she was developmentally disabled due to vaccines. She refused to give up her daughter to Child Protection [...]

by Vera Sharav Alliance for Human Research Protection  The American Psychiatric Association DSM-5 website announced yesterday that it had dropped the most controversial of its numerous expansionist diagnoses: ”Psychosis Risk” and “Mixed Anxiety Depression.”  They have been banished “for more study.” A diagnosis of “Psychosis Risk” would have misdiagnosed and exposed millions of children and adolescents to [...]

by Citizens Commission on Human Rights International A study about a new “blood test”  that can supposedly be used to determine teens have “Major Depressive Disorder”  is being heralded by the press as a breakthrough in legitimizing  psychiatric disorders as medical conditions.  We’re going to cut to the chase—it’s not even close to a breakthrough.  It’s [...]

By Eric Francis, Jef Feeley and David Voreacos Bloomberg News Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) must pay more than $1.1 billion in fines, a judge ruled after an Arkansas jury found the company’s officials misled doctors and patients about the risks of the antipsychotic drug Risperdal. Judge Tim Fox in Little Rock, Arkansas, yesterday found J&J [...]

by Dr. Mercola Source:  The Washington Post March 12, 2012   The Emperor’s New Drugs Exploding the Antidepressant Myth by Irving Kirsch Ph.D. Free Shipping Available! More Info

by Alliance for Natural Health But now we know that “low serotonin”—which is what SSRI’s “fix”—doesn’t even cause depression! Action Alert! A study conducted jointly in the Netherlands and the US has found that babies born to mothers who took antidepressants while they were pregnant had slightly slower head growth and were more likely to [...]

Health Impact News Editor Comments: The article below was written by Dr. Mercola prior to the recent shooting incident in Ohio, as was the Fox News story above on school shootings and antidepressant drugs which was filmed in 2007. This was a rare story from the mainstream media taking an honest look at the link between [...]

by Brian Shilhavy Editor of Health Impact News The CBS news program “60 Minutes” has produced a story featuring Dr. Irving Kirsch’s research on placebos and antidepressant drugs. To anyone who believes that popular antidepressant drugs prescribed for depression have solid scientific evidence based on sound research, you owe it to yourself to invest 14 minutes [...]

by Jef Feeley Bloomberg Johnson & Johnson hid studies showing its Risperdal anti-psychotic drug caused diabetes to protect billions of dollars in sales, a lawyer said in the first personal-injury claim over the medication to go to trial. Researchers at J&J’s Janssen unit knew as early as 1999 that a study found Risperdal caused diabetes [...]