By Attorney Jonathan Emord
newswithviews.com
Within the last two decades the field of psychiatry has mushroomed from a fringe body of Sigmund Freud admirers to a mainstream player in the field of medical pharmacology, largely because of an unseemly union between that profession and the drug industry, leading to the creation […]
Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD & Stan White (Father of Deceased Veteran, Andrew White) disclose the following:
EL CAJON, Calif., Nov. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — As a neurologist who has discovered and described medical diseases, I (FAB) read the May 24, 2008, Charleston (WV) Gazette article “Vets taking Post Traumatic Stress Disorder drugs […]
Health Impact News Editor Comments: The “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” is the publication used by Psychiatrists to define mental illnesses and legally prescribe drugs. How are these diseases diagnosed? Watch this video:
The DSM5 edition is now being debated, and as this article by Dr. Allen Frances explains, almost every group has come […]
Citizens Commission on Human Rights
4-year-olds on drugs? You betcha. The American Academy of Pediatrics issued new treatment guidelines for “Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder” that say ADHD can be diagnosed in kids as early as age four, and that Ritalin and similar drugs are an appropriate treatment even for children this […]
by Dr. Peter R. Breggin
The New York Times
Excerpts:
The drugging of children for A.D.H.D. has become an epidemic. More than 5 million U.S. children, or 9.5 percent, were diagnosed with A.D.H.D. as of 2007. About 2.8 million had received a prescription for a stimulant medication in 2008.
The A.D.H.D. diagnosis does not identify a […]
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 […]
Prozac Turned Teen into Murderer – Judge Bases Opinion on Testimony of Psychiatrist Peter R. Breggin, MD that the Antidepressant Caused a Stimulant-like Syndrome Leading to Manic-like Behavior, Suicidality and Violence
By Peter R. Breggin, MD
The headline from the Winnipeg Free Press in Canada tells the story: “Judge Agrees Prozac Made Teen a Killer.” Provincial […]
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 Dr John Read
The Sydney Morning Herald
Mental health services have become increasingly dominated by psychiatry’s ”medical model”, which claims that feeling depressed, anxious or paranoid is primarily caused by genetic predispositions and chemical imbalances.
This has led to alarming rises in chemical solutions to distress. In New Zealand, one in nine adults […]
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 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 […]
Photo: BRIAN KAUFMAN/Detroit Free Press
To read the original story on this case, go here:
Police use Assault Weapons and Tank against Home School Mom wanting to protect daughter from Dangerous Medications
Here is the news report of the judge dropping the charges this week:
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By Emily P. Walker
MedPage Today
WASHINGTON — Two high-ranking senators have urged the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to take a closer look at potential over-prescribing of atypical antipsychotics to nursing home residents.
There are eight atypical antipsychotics approved by the FDA to treat schizophrenia and/or bipolar disorder, including clozapine […]
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 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 […]
by Mark Hicks
The Detroit News
A Detroit mother accused of refusing to give her 13-year-old daughter psychotropic medicine to treat a mental disorder has been found in neglect.
A Wayne County juvenile court jury found Wednesday that one accusation of neglect was proven in the case against Maryanne Godboldo.
A judge is expected Sept. […]
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 […]
