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More damning info on antidepressants….in a mainstream magazine, no less!
Well this surprised me. None of the info is new for most of the readers of this blog, but it’s refreshing to see it in a widely read mainstream magazine. From Discover Magazine: Irving Kirsch no longer...
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In a nutshell—recent events in the SSRI pharma corruption scandals
By Evelyn Pringle who writes awesome stuff about pharma and psychiatric corruption all the time. Evelyn Pringle: SSRI Pushers under Fire Throughout the 1990′s, most doctors who attended conferences,...
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Must read—antidepressants vs. placebo in children
Philip Dawdy on Furious Seasons does an analysis on this study from The American Journal of Psychiatry which shows a majorly huge placebo success rate with SSRIs suggesting most kids don’t respond to...
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Pharma kickbacks and corruption
From (Reuters): - The United States accused Forest Laboratories Inc of inappropriately marketing the drugs Celexa and Lexapro for children and paying kickbacks like spa visits to pediatricians who...
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Antidepressant Use Linked to Sudden Cardiac Death
For days the headlines have been screaming that depression is associated with sudden cardiac disease and death in women. Today this study perhaps tells us more! From MedScape today: A new analysis has...
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Alison Bass asks: Is psychiatry more corrupt than other medical specialties?
Alison Bass, a critic of pharma and author of the bestselling and wonderful book Side Effects A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial, does a post today on her blog,...
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Lexapro squeaks by FDA approval for teens
Read Philip’s inside scoop…he concludes his research with this paragraph. So we have two failed studies and a positive study of Celexa with a very small effect size plus a poster presentation of...
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Vogue Magazine takes on the toxicity of Paxil in pregnancy!!
Amazing but true!! This is a major victory. Vogue is as mainstream and (frankly disgusting) a magazine as you can get, but it’s so outrageously popular that this is really amazing and wonderful and may...
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Bipolar Disorder ‘misdiagnosed in a quarter of cases’
An excerpt from an article on Medical News Today: They found that over 25% of the patients with bipolar disorder had initially had their condition misdiagnosed as unipolar depression. Misdiagnosis...
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Suicidal ideation gone…for a long time now
Something that comes up quite often in discussions with my friends and readers who have been on meds and have come off of them is how many of the “psychiatric” symptoms they were being “treated” for...
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