by J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews
No parent wants to lose a child, but when one dies from something that should be very preventable, the heartbreak and tragedy is compounded. Such is increasingly the case with prescription drugs – they’re killing our youth.
Sarah Shay and Savannah Kissick, of Morehead, Ky., best friends since […]
http://www.mercola.com/townofallopath/index.htm Watch the free animated short video that has created a major controversy across the Web. The video parodies the drug companies and conventional healthcare system and many are furious about the truth being exposed.
by Stephen Cook
The Sussex Newspaper
If you are on antidepressants or other ghastly psychiatric medications and want to get off them, here is news that will dramatically improve your chances of succeeding.
Of all drugs, psychiatric medications are arguably the worst. They are notoriously debilitating and extremely hard to kick. Indeed, discontinuing […]
by MacLean Gander, Ed.D.
The Commons
Do you have a shopping addiction disorder? Perhaps an addiction to food? Maybe one of your kids has Internet addiction disorder, or video-game attachment syndrome.
Well, not quite yet, because these kinds of new mental diagnoses are only proposed, not final, for the new revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual […]
by Dr. Mercola
A new report finds that U.S. doctors are too quick to prescribe drugs, and often give little thought to side effects and non-drug alternatives.
Overprescription is rampant, according to experts. Nearly half of all Americans have used at least one prescription drug in the past month. Many are being exposed to side effects, […]
Bad Side-Effects Ahead For Pharma?
by Martin Fridson
Forbes
In 2006, according to The New York Review of Books, four-year-old Rebecca Riley died of the effects of two prescription drugs—Clonidine and Depakote.
These medications, along with Seroquel, were prescribed for Rebecca after she was diagnosed, at the age of two, with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder […]
By Dr. Mercola
Harry Hucknall, a ten-year-old boy, died after hanging himself with a belt from his bunk bed. His father blames the death on Ritalin and Prozac, two drugs that the boy had been prescribed by a psychiatrist to cure his boisterous behavior and low spirits.
At the time of his death, the child had […]
By Michael LaForgia
The Palm Beach Post
By the time Florida started paying Dr. Gold Smith Dorval to counsel and medicate jailed children, the Pembroke Pines psychiatrist already had experience with kids in state custody.
He had used them, authorities said, to bilk the government out of money for the poor.
When Dorval pleaded […]
By CCHR Int
At just 6 years of age, still grieving over the death of the only mother he’d ever known, his foster mother, Giovan Bazan received the first of many psychiatric “diagnoses” and drugs that would plague him for the next twelve years of his life. Moved from foster home to foster home, orphanages and other […]
Pulitzer winning journalists James Steele and Donald Barlett uncover the shocking truth about how clinical trials conducted outside the US in developing countries are used to approve drugs for use in the US. They report that there is often very little oversight by the host country or the FDA, leaving pharmaceutical companies great power […]
by Casey Schwartz
thedailybeast.com
In the pendulum-swinging debate over the effectiveness of antidepressants, the latest findings by some researchers will not be good news for users and supporters of the ubiquitous meds: Used over the long term, antidepressants may “do more harm than good,” and once discontinued are more likely to cause […]
Health Impact News Editor Comments: While a common theme on this news site, even “mainstream” media can no longer ignore the prescription drug problem in this country any more, although this story did not exactly make headlines.
Reuters
msnbc.com
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U.S. doctors are too quick to reach for their prescription pads, according to a new report urging […]
By Daniel R. Levinson, Special to CNN
Editor’s note: Daniel Levinson is the inspector general for the OIG in the Department of Health and Human Services.
(CNN) — When a loved one moves into a nursing home, the support of family and friends is particularly important. This is especially true when the nursing […]
By Dr. Mercola
Using a computer program, scientists analyzed 5,600 drug labels and more than 500,000 labeled effects. They found that the average drug comes with a list of 70 potential reactions, according to researchers.
In fact, the more commonly prescribed drugs averaged around 100 side effects each, with some drugs containing as many as 525 […]
by Monica G. Young
NaturalNews
(NaturalNews) While sipping drinks from coconut shells, psychiatrists from around the world recently met in Honolulu to discuss more ways to capitalize on human behavior and promote drug dependency. The occasion was the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), held in a Hawaiian convention center lined with mental disorder […]
by Dr. Mercola
American drug and biotechnology companies are currently in the process of developing 850 new drugs targeted at women. These drugs, which are either in clinical trials or awaiting review by the FDA, include drugs for breast and ovarian cancer, autoimmune diseases, depression, and Alzheimer’s disease.
Among the drugs are […]
By Christopher Byron
AlterNet
America’s Most Dangerous Pill?
It’s not Adderall or Oxy. It’s Klonopin. And doctors are doling it out like candy, causing a surge of hellish withdrawals, overdoses and deaths.
You could argue that the deadliest “drug” in the world is the venom from a jellyfish known as the Sea Wasp, whose […]
By Jim Edwards
Bnet
Excerpts:
The ISMP found that 47 percent of all adverse events linked to Seroquel since 2004 occurred when the drug was being used for unapproved or “off-label” purposes, such as depression.
The report is yet another in a series of publications from a variety of sources that suggest some psychiatric doctors […]
by JoNel Aleccia
msnbc.com
Excerpts:
Hundreds of reports of suicides, psychotic reactions and other serious problems tied to the popular stop-smoking drug Chantix were left out of a crucial government safety review because Pfizer Inc., the drug’s manufacturer, submitted years of data through “improper channels.” Some 150 suicides — more than doubling those previously […]
by Michael LaForgia
Palm Beach Post News
In Florida’s juvenile jails, psychiatrists entrusted with diagnosing and prescribing drugs for wayward children have taken huge speaker fees from drug makers – companies that profit handsomely when doctors put kids on antipsychotic pills. The psychiatrists were hired by a state juvenile justice system that has […]
