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 […]
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 the […]
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 and its […]
by Dr. Mercola
A growing trend of drug misuse is alarming medical experts, policymakers, and patient advocates.In recent years, there has been a massive increase in off-label use of a class of drugs called “atypical niacantipsychotics.”
These drugs, which include Seroquel, Zyprexa, Risperdal and Abilify, are only approved to treat disabling mental illnesses, but they’re being […]
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 be […]
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 […]
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 of […]
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 at a […]
This MindFreedom International member, Christina Walko of Pennsylvania, is being forced to take many psychiatric drugs on an outpatient basis, even though she is living peacefully in the community. She says, “People do not heal when they are bullied or forced!” Her hearing is this Friday, 27 January 2012. Please […]
By Dr. Mercola
Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has issued controversial draft guidelines that could put parents’ right to choose whether or not to medicate their children with ADHD at risk.
There are clearly many superior alternatives for addressing ADHD than potentially dangerous psychiatric drugs that often contain different […]
Big Pharma uses ads that sow hypochondria, raise health fears and sell diseases to adults and their children.
By Martha Rosenberg
Alternet
It’s no secret that advertising works. Big Pharma wouldn’t spend over $4 billion a year on direct-to-consumer advertising if it didn’t mean massive profits.
What is more unknown is why drug ads that sow hypochondria, raise […]
By Bruce E. Levine
AlterNet
Drug industry corruption, scientifically unreliable diagnoses and pseudoscientific research have compromised the values of the psychiatric profession.
Why do some of us become dissident mental health professionals?
The majority of psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental health professionals “go along to get along” and maintain a status quo that […]
RT.com
The United States has a passion for pills, being the world’s biggest users of psychotropic drugs, consuming 60 per cent of them. And pharmaceutical firms are keen to keep cashing in on the multibillion-dollar market, even if it costs people’s health.
America is regarded as a country with a prodigious appetite for […]
By DANNY HAKIM
New York Times
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Something was happening to Katie Strignano. After she was moved into a state-run group home, the 26-year-old woman, who is severely mentally retarded, started gaining weight, drooling, breaking out in pimples and pulling out her hair, leaving a bald spot the size of a softball on her head.
Her […]
By Tom Kisken
standard.net
The woman leaning against a pillar didn’t know more Americans — twice as many — take antidepressants than go to movie theaters weekly. She hadn’t heard that a federal study found the meds are used by 23 percent of middle-aged women — almost one in four.
But she knows […]
By Amy Norton
reuters.com
(Reuters Health) – Neither antidepressants nor “talk therapy” were able to outperform inactive placebo pills in a new clinical trial on depression treatment — though there were hints that the effects varied based on people’s sex and race, researchers report.
The findings, published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, add to evidence that […]
by Dr. Ron Paul
Maryanne Godboldo, a mother in Michigan, noticed that pills prescribed by her daughter’s doctor were making her condition worse, not better. So Mrs. Godboldo stopped giving them to her. That’s when the trouble began. When Child Protective Services (CPS) bureaucrats became aware that the girl was not […]
By Daily Mail Reporter
Mail Online
‘I was drugged into a stupor for FOUR YEARS’: Boy, 12, bravely tells Congress how he was forced to take ‘stupid meds’ while in foster care
A 12-ear-old boy has bravely told how he was medicated into a near-stupor as he was passed between foster care homes.
The seventh […]
By BRINDA ADHIKARI, JOAN MARTELLI and SARAH KOCH
ABCNews
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Across America, doctors are putting foster children on powerful, mind-altering drugs at rates up to 13 times that of children in the general population. What’s more, doctors are prescribing foster children drugs at doses beyond what the Food and Drug […]
