FIRST OPINION – Marika Sboros ponders madness
At the heart of this matter is a nasty predilection some psychiatrists have for medicalising normality
by MARIKA SBOROS
BusinessDay
Shrinks on the couch as they ponder who is and is not crazy. Diagnosis is a slippery slope. It involves concepts that are virtually impossible to define precisely with bright lines at […]
by Martha Rosenberg
opednews.com
Google the word “depression” and the first search result you’ll get is for the antipsychotic Seroquel XR.
Visit WebMD and the home page hosts similar ads for Seroquel XR, above and adjacent to the lead news story.
Who would know AstraZeneca inked the largest multi-state consumer protection settlement on record relating to deceptive […]
More than one in ten Americans takes Prozac; the US comprises 5% of the world’s population, yet consumes two thirds of psychological medications. Photograph: Stone/Jonathan Nourok/Getty
by Harriet Fraad
guardian.co.uk
The New York Times recently led with a front-page splash about psychiatry’s propensity to prescribe pills, “Talk Doesn’t Pay, So Psychiatry Turns Instead to Drug Therapy”. That […]
By Susan Heavey
(Reuters) – An epilepsy drug also used to help prevent migraines can increase the risk for oral birth defects in babies born to women taking the medication, health officials said on Friday.
The Food and Drug Administration said new data shows expecting mothers taking the drug, sold generically and as Johnson & Johnson’s […]
by Dr. Mercola
Orthopedic surgeons and bone specialists have been seeing an increasing number of unusual fractures among long-term users of bisphosphonate bone-strengthening drugs such as Fosamax, Actonel, Boniva and Reclast.
The latest and largest study suggests that women who’ve been on bisphosphonates for more than five years have a nearly three times higher risk of […]
by Dr. Mercola
Drugs that include traditional non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) as well as new generation anti-inflammatory drugs (COX-2 inhibitors) have been linked to cardiovascular risks.
Researchers performed a comprehensive analysis of all randomized controlled trials that compared any NSAID with other NSAIDs or placebo. The analysis included more than 30 trials that examined in total […]
(Martha Rosenberg)
by Martha Rosenberg
Since pharma discovered the ka-ching in pediatric psychopharmacology, millions of kids are on ADHD meds and other psychotropic drugs for conduct disorders, depression, bipolar disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, mood disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders, mixed manias, social phobia, anxiety, and assorted “spectrum” disorders.
They are even treated for seizure-spectrum disorders without the presence of […]
BMJ editor admits that they should have disclosed competing commercial interests in Wakefield attack
By John Stone
Age of Autism
British Medical Journal’s editor has been forced into an embarrassing admission that the journal should have disclosed connections with MMR manufacturers Merck and GSK when publishing attacks on the integrity of Andrew Wakefield in January (HERE). […]
by Brian Shilhavy
Created4Health.org
This is what the LORD says — your Redeemer, the Holy One… “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go.” (Isaiah 48:17)
The book of Isaiah in the Old Testament portion of the Bible is one of the most […]
Alliance for Natural Health
Not only may the drugs meant to cure your depression actually drive you to suicide, but these dangerous and addictive drugs may be behind the Columbine shooting—and dozens of others. Ask the FDA to warn the public that SSRIs may make people commit violence against others! […]
Alliance for Natural Health
So-called weight-loss drugs are huge business, but they’re going from bad to worse. The newest include antidepressant ingredients—and most users won’t even know they’re there—with more really awful side effects.
On February 1, the FDA declined to approve the weight-loss drug Contrave for the time being, expressing concern about […]
from Citizen’s Commission on Human Rights International
In “The Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth,” just released in paperback, psychology professor Irving Kirsch argues that antidepressant drugs are not effective and that the idea of depression as a chemical imbalance in the brain is pure myth. Kirsch provides what he […]
Gwen Olsen spent fifteen years as a pharmaceutical sales rep working for such healthcare giants as Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Abbott Laboratories. She enjoyed a successful, fast-paced career until several conscious-altering experiences began awakening her to the dangers lurking in every American medicine cabinet. Her most poignant lessons, however, came as both […]
By Dr. Mercola
Every year, 230 million prescriptions for antidepressants are filled, making them one of the most prescribed drugs in the United States. The psychiatric industry itself is a $330 billion industry—not bad for an enterprise that offers little in the way […]
Andy Behrman, a former spokesman for Abilify and Bristol Myers Squibb, discusses his side effects from Abilify, the “wonder drug” of Bristol Myers Squibb
By Dr. John Briffa
The Epoch Times
Here are the opening sentences from Dr. Spence’s column this week that struck a chord:
“We are scientists. But the Big Book of Medical Facts is in fact just a pamphlet printed at home, with two paragraphs in a very large font. The only certainty of science is uncertainty.
“Medicine […]
by: Monica G. Young
NaturalNews
(NaturalNews) Not everyone has fallen for the grand hoax: 20 million kids worldwide diagnosed with mental disorders, necessitating psychiatric drugs for years or life. Some individuals are speaking out. Yet so many parents, kids and schools have fallen prey to one of the most insidious yet most […]
by Dr. Mercola
More than 25 million people in the U.S. suffer from diabetes. Most have type 2 diabetes, which usually develops later in life. But type 2 diabetes can be reversed.
CNN reports what some of us have known for a long time now — by making changes such as adding exercise and improving their diets, […]
From DrugWatch.com
Approximately 700,000 visits to the emergency room were linked to drug-related poisoning in 2007, according to a new study published February 28 on the Nationwide Children’s Hospital website. Researchers found that 44 percent of poisonings were caused by prescription medications such antidepressants and opioid pain relievers.
The study found […]
by Monica G. Young
NaturalNews
(NaturalNews) Pharmaceutical companies view the elderly as a lucrative market. However a panel of experts at the recent Senate Aging Committee forum decided to speak up. Over-medication occurs far too often in those diagnosed with dementia, the panel warned, and as baby boomers age the problem will only worsen.
One reason […]
