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Psychiatrist traces how deception and conflicts of interest have resulted in millions being on psychiatric drugs they don’t need

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 […]

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Five dementia sufferers die each day from wrongly prescribed drugs

By Martni Beckford
The Telegraph

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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 […]

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Psychiatric Meds and The Road Back Program to Get Off Drugs Safely

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 […]

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Mass Psychosis in the US: How Big Pharma got Americans Hooked on Anti-psychotic Drugs

by James Ridgeway
aljazeera.net
Has America become a nation of psychotics? You would certainly think so, based on the explosion in the use of antipsychotic medications. In 2008, with over $14 billion in sales, antipsychotics became the single top-selling therapeutic class of prescription drugs in the United States, surpassing drugs used to treat high cholesterol and acid […]

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Antidepressant Drug Use in Pregnancy Linked to Autism

By Julie Steenhuysen

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Researchers at health insurer Kaiser Permanente found mothers of children with autism were twice as likely to have been prescribed a common antidepressant during the year before their pregnancy than mothers of healthy children.

A team led by Lisa Croen, director of the Autism Research Program at the Kaiser […]

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The problem with the new revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

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 […]

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Children Dying from Side Effects of Psychoactive Drugs

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 […]

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Ten Year Old on Two Drugs Dies After Hanging Himself

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 […]

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Autistic Child Removed from Home and Forced into Psychiatric Ward

By Adrian MacNair – Abbotsford News

Derek Hoare had taken his eyes off his nine-year-old autistic daughter, Ayn Van Dyk, for just a moment.

Then she was gone.

Ayn had been playing in the backyard of his Mt. Lehman Road home, which was surrounded by a six-foot fence.

But somehow she had disappeared. Derek sprinted up the street […]

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Dosed in juvie jail: Troubled doctors hired to treat kids in state custody

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 […]

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52% of foster kids are prescribed psych drugs—One of them is fighting back

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 […]

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Do Antidepressants Make You Sad?

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 […]

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Cause for alarm: Antipsychotic drugs for nursing home patients

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 […]

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At annual convention, psychiatrists collaborate on mental disease mongering to boost profits

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 […]

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Klonopin: America’s Most Dangerous Pill?

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 […]

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Psychiatric doctors abusing their patients with Seroquel

By Jim Edwards
Bnet

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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 […]

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Drugging juveniles: Doctors hired to evaluate kids in state custody have taken huge payments from drug companies

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 […]

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The Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth

The Emperor’s New Drugs
Exploding the Antidepressant Myth

by Irving Kirsch Ph.D.
Like most people, I used to think that antidepressants worked. As a clinical psychologist, I referred depressed psychotherapy clients to psychiatric colleagues for the prescription of medication, believing that it might help. Sometimes the antidepressant seemed to work; […]

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Ending a Midlife Affair with Antidepressant Meds

by Supermodel Paulina Porizkova

Huffington Post

I felt guilty. I felt unnatural. I felt ashamed. Finally, I broke down and confessed my dirty little secret to a girlfriend and found that she not only knew what I was talking about, but she was doing it, too. And the more I opened up about it, […]

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More Americans abuse prescription drugs than the number of those using cocaine, hallucinogens, and heroin combined

by David Swanson
opednews.com

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The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) held a first-time, one-day, little publicized event last September that allowed people to turn in their extra prescription drugs. The DEA reports collecting 242,000 pounds or 121 tons. A second such day was held in April with 376,593 pounds or 188 tons of pills collected. This […]

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