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Category Archives: anatomy of an epidemic
Childhood adversity affects adult brain and body functions
From the Guardian Tues Oct 16th 2012 Science Childhood adversity affects adult brain and body functions, researchers find Growing up in a low socioeconomic background can impair working memory as an adult and affect the size of different parts of … Continue reading
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What doctors don’t know about the drugs they prescribe: Ben Goldacre
You saw an extract from his book the other day, here he is at TED, Ben Goldacre on how the system that is the very basis of “evidence medicine” is a load of bollocks [my paraphrasing] concealling a systemmatic flaw … Continue reading
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Tagged badscience, Ben Goldacre, Psychiatric medication, TED
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The Drugs Don’t Work – Ben Goldacre
From the guardian, a lengthy extract from a new book by Ben Goldacre, published today in the UK. Goldacre is one of the growing number of Doctors who have woken from the pharma/doubleblind/”evidence” -induced hypnosis that has taken hold of … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Goldacre, mental health, Pharmageddon, Placebo, Psychiatric medication, The Drugs Don't Work
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chemical warfare on children
An homage to Private Eye magazine The fastest growing “market” for so-called”antipsychotic” drugs is children. That the condition even exists is unproven. That the medications are any more effective than placebo [sugar] is unproven. That the medications are safe even in adults, … Continue reading
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The Medicated Child
If you found yesterdays’ post difficult to watch then gird yourself for this one. From 2008, PBS Frontline documentary The Medicated Child.
America’s Medicated Kids – Louis Theroux
Louis Theroux spends time with America’s diagnosed and medicated kids. You may be left wondering just who’s disorder is being treated by the kids taking the medications. Phamily mental health In one family mom proudly displays the phamily pharmacy – even … Continue reading
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mental illness …. or too much caffeine?
Article at La Trobe University website on a report from a study looking into connections between caffeine consumption and “symptoms of schizophrenia” . so, it’s a “caffeine imbalance” ? Guess what? the more caffeine we consume the more likely we are to … Continue reading
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what next for the truth? Suzanne Beachy
This is a wonderful talk by Suzanne Beachy at TEDx Columbus 2012. It’s so good I wanted to grab every idea, so transcribed it. The words are by Suzanne Beachy, as are the slides and the photo of her son Jake, who … Continue reading
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Tagged mental health, psychosis
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Antipsychotic Prescriptions in Children Have Skyrocketed
Eight fold increase in antipsychotic prescriptions to children since 1993 Article in Time Aug 9 on the alarming rise of antipsychotics prescribed for children. Witht the adult market for antipsychotics approaching saturation, drug companies have turned to creating a new market … Continue reading
Psychiatric Drugs: Chemical Warfare on Humans – interview with Robert Whitaker
This morning I chanced across this: interview with Robert Whitaker from 2005 by Terry Messman of StreetSpirit.org. It predates Whitaker’s book: Anatomy of an Epidemic and covers wider scope so it’s interesting to see a glimpse of how he was thinking at … Continue reading
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