By Dr. Mercola
In 2009 in the U.S. there were nearly 4.6 million drug-related visits to emergency rooms nationwide, with more than half due to adverse reactions to prescription medications – most of which were being taken exactly as prescribed.
What’s more, these types of ER visits jumped by more than half just between 2004 and […]
by Alliance for Natural Health
Treating Drug-Induced Diseases…
…With more—and worse—drugs?
Mainstream medicine too frequently relies on pharmaceuticals to solve problems that FDA-approved medicines caused in the first place. Take, for example, delirium—a kind of mental confusion that’s a common complication of hospital admission, especially among people over 65. It is one […]
The Psycho-Pharma Front Groups
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP)
Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA)
Attention Deficit Disorder Association (ADDA)
Center for the Advancement of Children’s Mental Health (CACMH)
Children and Adults with ADD (CHADD)
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA)
DBSA Advisory Board
Herbert Pardes: Creating The Front Group Pipe Line
Mental Health America (Formerly National Mental Health Association)
National Alliance on […]
By Barry Evans
northcoastjournal.com
The theory that psychological problems are mainly caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain can be traced back 60 years, when French researchers accidentally discovered that Thorazine (chlorpromazine) dramatically improved the emotional behavior of institutionalized mental patients. Within a few years, the anti-psychotic properties of Thorazine […]
By Lisa Girion, Scott Glover and Doug Smith
Los Angeles Times
Excerpts:
Propelled by an increase in prescription narcotic overdoses, drug deaths now outnumber traffic fatalities in the United States, a Times analysis of government data has found.
Drugs exceeded motor vehicle accidents as a cause of death in 2009, killing at least 37,485 people […]
Now shy children face risk of being given mental-health drugs… with 650,000 youngsters already on Ritalin
Experts fear widespread use of powerful medications
Hyperactive children already being treated with drugs
By Emily Allen
dailymail.co.uk
Children who are shy or considered moody run the risk of being diagnosed with mental illnesses and given powerful drugs like […]
by Michael Belkin
The Refusers
Comment: Here’s a new study saying people mistakenly assume that FDA approval means drugs are extremely effective and lack serious side effects. But according to a study author, FDA approval only means ‘the benefits are judged to be greater than the harms.’
According to another CDC study, 48% of people aged between […]
By Dr. Mercola
If reading the news and watching TV advertisements for psychotropic drugs makes you wonder if Americans are in the midst of a raging epidemic of mental illness, you’re not alone. In a New York Times book review, Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief […]
by Dr John Briffa
The Cholesterol Truth
Excerpts:
Fibrates are drugs that lower levels of ‘unhealthy’ triglycerides, while at the same time boosting levels of HDL cholesterol (which is associated with reduced heart disease risk). They are commonly prescribed to diabetics who, in addition to raised blood sugar levels, tend to run high levels of triglycerides and low […]
by Martha Rosenberg
huffingtonpost.com
Before “Ask Your Doctor” ads on TV, all you knew about prescription drugs were creepy ads in a JAMA at the doctor’s office with a lot of fine print. Even if you knew the name of a drug, you’d never ask your doctor for it because that would be self-diagnosing and cheeky for […]
by Alliance for Natural Health
Now Fido can have the same violent and psychotic breaks from SSRIs as humans. Please support our new Citizen Petition to the FDA!
The FDA has approved a reformulated version of the much-prescribed SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) Prozac, but this one is just for […]
By Eric W. Dolan
rawstory.com
Antidepressants became the third most commonly prescribed class of medications in the United States thanks in part to non-psychiatrist providers prescribing the drugs to individuals without any psychiatric diagnosis, according to a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
“We’ve seen […]
Health Impact News Editor Comment: For background information on this story, read Police use Assault Weapons and Tank against Home School Mom wanting to protect daughter from Dangerous Medications first, which is the all-time most-read article on Health Impact News.
TANGLED WEB IN GODBOLDO CASE: DRUG COS., PRIVATE AND PUBLIC AGENCIES, JUDGE, DHS ALL BENEFIT FROM […]
Cancer Research of 10 Years Useless: Fraudulent Studies, Says Mayo Clinic
JAMA’s editor calls fraudulent medical research a ‘scar on the moral body of science’. But it’s really just part of an entire system of fraud in medicine.
by Heidi Stevenson
gaia-health.com
Medical science is rampant with fraud. At the Mayo Clinic, ten years of research that appeared […]
By BENEDICT CAREY
NY Times
Drugs widely prescribed to treat severe post-traumatic stress symptoms for veterans are no more effective than placebos and come with serious side effects, including weight gain and fatigue, researchers reported on Tuesday.
The surprising finding, from the largest study of its kind in veterans, challenges current treatment standards so directly that it […]
by Allen Frances, M.D.
Psychology Today
We are already in the midst of a false epidemic of ADD. Rates in kids that were 3-5% when DSM IV was published in 1994 have now jumped to 10%. In part this came from changes in DSM IV, but most of the inflation was caused by […]
By Minyanville Staff
For any mental illness or passing mood swing that may trouble a person, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — better known as the DSM — has a label and a code. Recurring bad dreams? That may be a Nightmare Disorder, or 307.47. Narcolepsy uses the same digits in a […]
by Ed Silverman
Pharmalot
This is every drugmaker’s nightmare. The pharmaceutical industry has been put on alert by the FDA that any clinical tests conducted between April 2005 and June 2010 by a contract research organization called Cetero Research may have to be reevaluated because two FDA inspections and an outside audit found falsified data and manipulated […]
Interview with Psychiatryland Author Phillip Sinaikin, MD
Martha Rosenberg
scoop.co.nz
Phillip Sinaikin, MD, is a Florida psychiatrist who has been in practice for 25 years. Author of “Get Smart About Weight Control” and co-author of “Fat Madness: How to Stop the Diet Cycle and Achieve Permanent Well-Being,” his new book focuses on excesses and industry influence in […]
By Martni Beckford
The Telegraph
Excerpts:
Many more hospital patients and care home residents suffer strokes triggered by the antipsychotic medications they are given to keep them sedated.
New GP-led bodies that will purchase services under the reformed NHS are being told to review the prescriptions of all 180,000 dementia sufferers currently […]
