Big Pharma
AllTrials.org: Half of all clinical trials have never been published. This is a scandal. Sign the petition here! March 13, 2014
NO COMMERCIALS HERE – THIS IS THE OTHER SIDE OF BIG PHARMA
Stopping Anti-Depressants- A Guide
Posted rxisk.org May 20, 2014 Finally some easilly accessible information to assist those for whom the medical establishment finds not enough financial incentive to help! This is also a great developing site. It does not cover all meds but is a great consise introduction to what is possible with the meds they do cover. Congratulations ot Dr. David healy.
Deadly Medicines and Organized Crime…..How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare by Peter Gotzsche – Book Review
Posted PLOS.org March 12, 2014
Study links acetaminophen in pregnancy to ADHD in children
Posted ABC News KTRK Houston February 24, 2014
A study of 60,000 European women indicates increase in ADHD children born of women who took acetaminophen.
70 Million Americans on Mind Altering Drugs
Posted www.wnd.com February 10, 2014
One man’s easy read, common sense summary of America’s drug problem. Comprehensive and thought provoking.
6 Ways Remaining Silent Creates Pain and Despair
Posted January 2014 PsycheCentral.com by Mike Bundrant
Posted OpedNews.com Jan. 26, 2014 Article by Martha Rosenberg
No studies however linking all these strange attacks to the equally strange mind altering SSRI’s- but a very strong need for a closer look.
Waking Up from Sadness: Many find trouble getting off antidepressants
Posted america.aljazeera.com
Holding Psychiatry to a much Higher Ethical Standard
Posted Huffington Post 1/24/2014 by Allen Frances MD Professor Emeritus Duke University
A Review of The Bitterest Pills by Joanna Moncrieff, MD
Posted Mad in America.com October 20, 2013 Written by Philip Thomas, MD
The Selling of ADHD – 20 Year Marketing Effort by Big Pharma
Posted DemoracyNow.org December 17, 2013
Gabor Mate and Alan Schwartz discuss the hype and the reality surrounding prescriptions of Adderal for ADHD. Well rounded discussion of all sides.
Mass shootings are occurring alongside increased psychiatric drugging
Posted Examiner.com November 20, 2013
The Withering of Big Pharma?
Posted Counterpunch November 8-10, 2013 Author Dr. Martha Rosenberg
Why Big Pharma Won’t Stop Breaking the Law
Posted demos.org November 5, 2013
The New Psychiatry: Forget Everything You Think You Know About Mental Health
Posted Huffington Post Nov. 15, 2013 Kelly Brogan, MD
Healthy alternatives to dubious drug therapies discussed.
Namenda- Common Alzheimer’s Drug Found Ineffective
Posted Huffington Post April 12, 2011
Party Drugs: Ketamine-Like Drug “Lanicemine” may be used to treat depression.
Posted Oct. 31, 2013 International Business Times
Anti-psychotic meds overused for dementia, kids
Posted USA Today Sept. 23, 2013
Finally troubling ethical questions are surfacing through the quagmire of power and profits and being voiced by actual psychiatrists.
Why Big Pharma is bad for your health
Posted Non-Profit Burea of Investigative Journalism Sept. 28, 2013
Case histories, research methodology seriously flawed.
Antidepressants Cause birth Defects
Posted Las Vegas Guadian Express September 2013
Antidepressants Linked to Postpartum Hemorrhage
Posted August 26, 2013 Medscape.com Author: Caroline Cassels
“A large study of pregnant women diagnosed with a mood or anxiety disorder and conducted by investigators at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston showed about a1.5-fold increased risk for postpartum hemorrhage associated with all classes of antidepressants and not just selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SRIs).”
“Our study suggests that all classes of antidepressants are associated with an increased risk of abnormal bleeding,” the investigators write.”
Biochemical Mapping Helps Explain Who Will Respond to Antidepressants
Posted July 18, 2013 science News
Chemical changes are measured as people become less depressed yet the article shows no proof that antidepressants caused the changes. Where is the double blind study?
Ingestion sensors track psychiatric medication adherence
Posted July 31, 2013 Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
The future of psychiatry and voodoo medicine if given a chance? Embedded sensors are the latest money making scheme being conceived.
Is Big Pharma Addicted to Fraud?
Posted Forbes July 29, 2013Can they treat this behavioral disorder (addiction to fraud) with a drug? The insignificant fines paid are just the cost of doing business. (Editor)
Big pharma mobilizing patients in battle over drugs trials data
Posted The Guardian, July 21, 2013
Some drug companies gearing up to fight against transparency.
Antidepressants and School Shootings: Doctors Write Prescriptions for Murder
Posted June 29, 2013 News with Views.com
Excerpt: ‘Harvard psychologist Dr. Joseph Glenmullen discussing SSRIs said: “We don’t know what these drugs are doing to real life human beings. When you look at all the documents, you see a pattern of misleading doctors who then unwittingly mislead patients. This is a betrayal of the public trust in physicians behind the scenes by the drug industry and it must stop.”’
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Drugs and Doctors: Little Clinic Says No to Big Pharma
Posted Kitsap Sun July 15, 2013
Slow news week but interesting tidbit- Doctors at a small clinic take a principled approach to drug pushers. Also some good information overall about how drugs,expensive, even harmful ones, are marketed, by health reporter Markian Hawryluk.
More Challenges to Drug “Research”
Posted NYTimes.com June 30, 2013“EARLIER this month, Dr. Doshi opened what he hopes will be a new chapter in his quest for greater understanding of clinical trials. He and several other researchers published what amounted to an ultimatum to drug companies: publish your data, or we’ll do it for you. ”
What Doctor’s Don’t Know About the Drugs They Prescribe
Posted June 2012 TEDMED (Posted here July 4, 2013)Perhaps the most engaging lecturer in medicine, Dr. Ben Goldacre opens up about pharmaceutical malfeasance and how it creates Doctor’s who do not have the knowledge to make informed decisions. I drove 40 miles to hear and pay for a similar lecture. Here it is available for all and well worth it as he gets right to the relevant points and supports them profoundly. The TEDMED website is also quite interesting. (Editor)
Posted The Sandusky Register Ruth Haag Jul 2, 2013
This is the issue most ignored perhaps because the implications are the most profound. SSRI’s may be the missing link explaining all these weird violent episodes that society never experienced to this degree in the past. An intelligent discussion which begs answers and more serious consideration. (Editor)
More than 1 in 10 Take Antidepressants
Posted CNN Health June 25, 2013
11% over the age of 12 take antidepressants. The rate of depression has doubled in the last 15 years – antidepressant use up 400% since the late 1980’s. Is there a connection between SSRI use and chronic depression? This article from an associate professor of psychiatry does not address that. Instead they make the case that social ills and lifestyle problems have occurred at the same time as the availability and heavy marketing of SSRI’s. (Editor)
America’s Epidemic of Psychiatric Over-Diagnosis
Posted Daily Beast June 21, 2013 “The next time you’re in a crowded room, look around. A scary percentage of the people in the room with you are suffering from a mental disorder. Or at least that’s what we’ve been led to believe, …………….”America’s Depression Diagnoses Epidemic and How to Fix It
Posted Daily Beast March 30, 2013
A new book reveals why a third of Americans convinced themselves they’re depressed—and what we can do to get sensible diagnoses. Historian Edward Shorter speaks to Jesse Singal about depression hysteria.
In his new book How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown, the University of Toronto historian of psychiatry Edward Shorter takes aim at the what he sees as the massive overdiagnosis of depression in America. Overselling Psychiatry Posted Reason Magazine July 2013 Issue“Allen Frances, former head of the Duke University School of Medicine’s psychiatry department and a man The New York Times once called “perhaps the most powerful psychiatrist in America,” was chair of the APA task force for DSM-IV (issued in 1994). Frances has become the loudest and most influential public voice questioning the DSM’s latest revamp.”
Who Should Take Antidepressants?
Posted June 14, 2013 The AtlanticJames Hamblin, MD finds much to question re: psychiatry and the diagnosis of depression. For example, a recent study at Johns Hopkins found that more than 60 percent of adults who were diagnosed by their doctor as having depression actually did not meet the official diagnostic criteria for the disorder upon re-evaluation by Hopkins psychiatrists. Some of them may have been prescribed antidepressant medications when their real problem was something else entirely.”
Bad Diagnosis For New Psychiatry ‘Bible’
Antidepressants in Bipolar Disorder: No Benefit, Possible Harm
Posted May 30, 2013 Medscape News from the APA 2013 Annual Meeting “The reason clinicians persist in prescribing antidepressants in this patient population when the evidence suggests they confer no benefit is unclear. However, Dr. Warner speculated that it may be due to the fact that there are so few effective treatment options for this severely ill population.”“After controlling for anxiety, they found that patients who were discharged while receiving venlafaxine were 3 times more likely to be readmitted compared with those who did not receive an antidepressant at discharge or those who received other antidepressants “
Some Antidepressants May Raise Gastro Risk
Posted 2013 WebMBEditor- Remeron and Prozac doubled the rate of infection of the potentially deadly Clostridiuum difficile infection. WebMD characterizes this as ‘may raise gastro risk’.
The Problem With Psychiatry, the ‘DSM,’ and the Way We Study Mental Illness
Posted Pacific Standard Magazine June 3, 2013“Psychiatry is under attack for not being scientific enough, but the real problem is its blindness to culture. When it comes to mental illness, we wear the disorders that come off the rack.” How cultral prejudice influences the DSM.
Teen smartphone addiction correlates with psychopathology
Posted Clinical Psychiatry News June 3, 2013“Recess traditionally has been a time for kids to run and play between classes, but only five or six students were playing soccer during this lunch break. The rest were gathered in clusters by the bleachers next to the soccer field, looking at smartphones.” And the answer is – more drugs??
Gender Separation in Psychiatry
Posted Medical Press June 3, 2013Female patients show better results when grouped with other females- feel safer.
Is the new ‘bible of psychiatry’ a weapon for the courts?
Posted www.theverge.com May 28, 2013“While the DSM’s text is introduced with a caveat that it’s only to be used for clinical, educational, and research purposes, the book has another key application: It’s often used as a way to make decisions within governing bodies, in court, and in the criminal justice system.”
Medical Marijuana: Big Pharma’s Campaign to Eliminate State-Sanctioned Cannabis Competitors?
Posted Global Research May 20, 2013“In a study conducted by Reiman, 66 percent of patients used cannabis as a substitute for prescription drugs while 68 percent used cannabis as a subsitute for prescription drugs to treat chronic illness. And 85 percent of patients reported that cannabis had fewer side effects than other prescribed medicine”
Big Pharma Wants Fish Oil After All,………..
Posted May 28, 2013 www.thestreet.comIllness risk following rapid versus gradual discontinuation of antidepressants.
Posted August 2010 National Institute of Health US National Library of MedicineThe recurrence risk for depression or panic was much shorter after rapid than after gradual discontinuation of antidepressants. These findings have implications for both clinical management and the design and interpretation of clinical trials.
Antipsychotics linked to sudden cardian death riskOregon Health and Science University ongoing study
Posted Clinical Psychiatry News May 24, 2013“Both the second-generation as well as the first-generation antipsychotic agents proved independently associated with greater than threefold increased risks of sudden cardiac death, according to results from a large, population-based study.” Olanzapine (Zyprexa), risperdal implicated. Abilify- not a large enough control group studied. All classes seem to imply the same risks of SCD- sudden cardiac death.
Study: Vitamin B could curb dementia
Posted Market Watch wall Street Journal May 24, 2013More disappointing news for pharma investors and industry insiders. Doctors discover Vitamin B at pennies per dose seems to dramatically curb symptoms associated with dementia. Two year study.
NIMH: Neorology Trumps Psychiatry
Posted: Huffington Post May 16, 2013The director of the NIMH claims the DSM-5 “lacks validity”. The Onion captured it best: “More U.S. Children Being Diagnosed with Youthful Tendency Disorder”.
Taking on Big Pharma
A Mental Health Declaration of Independence
Posted Counterpunch May 21, 2013 A psychologist Bruce Levine discusses the insidious state of affairs between government, medicine, and big pharma – the “psychiatric-pharmaceutical industrial complex” and states the practices involved need to be abolished by law.NIMH Director’s Blog – Transforming Diagnosis
Posted by www.nimh.nih.gov April 29, 2013Director Thomas Insel writes about the shortcomings of the DSM and the new direction of the NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health) towards a more vliad, scientific approach.
“The Book of Woe” – Psychiatry’s Last Stand
Posted www.salon.com May 5, 2013 Review of book written by psychotherapist Gary GreenbergAn account of the making of the new DSM questions whether psychiatry is — or should be — a science
NIMH Won’t Follow Psychiatry Bible
Posted www.sciencemag.org May 2013The NIMH has been developing its new framework, called the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC), since 2009. The system replaces DSM diagnoses with broad research categories based on basic cognitive, behavioural and neural mechanisms.
Psychiatry Seismic Shift Will Happen Slowly
Posted May 8, 2013 by ForbesNIMH seriously skeptical of DSM-5. Seeking other alternatives. Driven by huge disappointments in psychiatric research over the last two decades.
Psychiatry’s New Guide Falls Short Experts Say
Posted May 7, 2013 New York Times.comPsychiatry’s guide out of touch with science.
Bi-Polar Writer Comments on Debate over Crisis in Psychiatry
Posted May 7, 2013 Scientific American Writer’s BlogConflicting personal feelings discussed by prominent SA writer about psychiatry and its current issues.
Anti-Depressant Medication Linked with increased Infection Risk
Posted www.foxnews.com/Health May 7, 2013Researchers from the University of Michigan revealed that individuals who suffer from depression and those taking antidepressants such as mirtazapine and fluoxetine had a much higher chance of contracting Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) – a life threatening infection that can cause severe diarrhea and inflammation of the colon.
How Big Pharma Wants to Profit from your Health Concerns
Posted www.salon.com 4/28/20136 ways pharma fuels the drug machine for additional profits by Martha Rosenberg
Big Pharma Mocked Patients who got Jawbone Death Drug
Posted Alternet December 3, 2012Article by Martha Rosenberg. Merck mocks patients with serious and documented health concerns.
Posted Slate Monday, Feb. 25, 2013 Often overlooked is how are we expected to pay for all of this. Lawyers could also be added to this list to make it fair. Overdose Deaths Continue to Climb (Posted February 19, 2013 on New York Times)“Drug overdose deaths in the United States increased for the 11th consecutive year in 2010, rising 3.6 percent from 2009, federal officials reported Tuesday. There were 38,329 drug overdose deaths in 2010. Prescription drugs were involved in more than half of all overdoses, with 22,134 deaths from them, up 6 percent from 2009…”
Psychiatry By Numbers
(Posted February 8, 2013 on Scientific American) http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cargo-cult-contrarian/2013/02/08/diagnosis/“Anyway, I filled the prescription, came home and researched it a bunch, sat on it for a couple weeks and finally tried it because I was so sick of not being able to sleep. Turns out it’s more physiologically addictive than Adderall or coke or even speed. The pharmaceutical company that manufactures it does not authorize it for use longer than three weeks. No doctor, nurse, or pharmacist ever mentioned that to me.”
Depression And The Limits Of Psychiatry
(Posted February 6, 2013 on The New York Times) http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/06/the-limits-of-psychiatry/“What we call psychiatric practice,” he says, “is a certain moral tactic . . . covered over by the myths of positivism.” Indeed, what psychiatry presents as the “liberation of the mad” (from mental illness) is in fact a “gigantic moral imprisonment.”
Psychiatric Medications’ Effect On Brain Structure Varies
(Posted January 30, 2013 on Science Daily) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120508103915.htmIt is increasingly recognized that chronic psychotropic drug treatment may lead to structural remodeling of the brain. Indeed, clinical studies in humans present an intriguing picture: antipsychotics, used for the treatment of schizophrenia and psychosis, may contribute to cortical gray matter loss in patients, whereas lithium, used for the treatment of bipolar disorder and mania, may preserve gray matter in patients.
Are Common US Prescription Medications Linked To Violence?
(Posted January 23, 2013 on RxISK) http://wp.rxisk.org/rxisk-forum-on-rx-drug-induced-violence-nyc/“With over 90% of school shooters on antidepressants, we need to have a serious discussion about the role that prescription drugs might have played in the recent Connecticut massacre and other mass killings”, says Dr. Healy, CEO of RxISK.org.
WebsitesFeatured https://www.rxisk.org/Default.aspx Making medicines safer for all of us. www.ssristories.com Focuses on potential links between drug use and violence including a database of actual events.
Science, Psychiatry, and Community
Activism for Human Rights in Mental Health Robert Whitaker (official website) http://www.robertwhitaker.uorg Official Website of Robert Whitaker, author of Anatomy of an Epidemic http://en.breggin.org …with Dr. Peter Breggin http://www.alternet.org/drugs/ …on alternet.org Pharmaceutical industry magazine http://www.cochrane.org/cochrane-reviews Contributes to Worldwide Medical Integrity Clinical/Nutrional Approach to Drug Withdrawal
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