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Category Archives: anatomy of an epidemic
Psychological maltreatment can be as harmful to kids as physical abuse: report
A piece by Sheryl Ubelacker, for The Canadian Press which went in to newspapers across the country over the last 24hrs: The Vancouver Sun to The Montreal Gazette. It’s in the Globe and Mail today [under a different title]. The article … Continue reading
Addicted to healthcare
Interesting perspective from Stanton Peele on what might be called the placebo effect of receiving attention from healthcare professionals. As, collectively, we loose faith in our own self to live well we turn to “professionals” to fix us, reassure ourselves … Continue reading
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Citalopram safety warning
Article in UK Telegraph 9:15PM BST 30 Jun 2012n Safety warning over Britain’s most common antidepressant A warning has been sounded over antidepressant drugs taken by more than a million patients in Britain. Photo: ALAMY By Laura Donnelly, Health correspondent … Continue reading
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Mental health issues a missing link in the fight against weight gain
Double iatrogenic, double epidemic, double trouble – what’s up doc? SNAFU- that’s what. “You have to care about the whole person, and not just one symptom.” Dr. Valerie Taylor, chief psychiatrist at Toronto’s Women’s College Hospital. …a healthcare system that … Continue reading
Severe abuse in childhood may treble risk of schizophrenia
Article in the Grauniad about recent report demonstrating link between early childhood difficulties and adult diagnosis of scizophrenia. children who experience abuse are three times more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia in adulthood those who experience sustained or repeated abuse are … Continue reading
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Medication and mental illness: by the numbers
Toronto Star piece Wed 30 May 2012 Medication and mental illness: by the numbers Published On Wed May 30 2012 3.7 People with schizophrenia who do not take their medication as prescribed are 3.7 times more likely to relapse than … Continue reading
11% of drugs prescribed for off-label use
Report on Reuters Medical News Service A study at McGill University finds that 11% of medications prescribed by Doctors in one Canadian province are prescribed for uses for which they have not been approved as safe – and that for 80% of those … Continue reading
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Anti-depressants doing more harm than good: Study
Article in NY Daily News about a report (another one) from a study at a Canadian University – McMasters – that says that not only do SSRIs – or as the marketers like us to call them “atypical antidepressants” [lest we confuse … Continue reading
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Antidepressants exposed
Dr David Healy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sstoa406Oa0 Related articles More from David Healy (seroxatsecrets.wordpress.com) Publication Bias in Antidepressants for Autism Literature (madinamerica.com)
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Paxil study 329: a tale of Doctors, Spin Doctors, Lawyers and emails
“The secret emails you weren’t suposed to see” BBC Panorama – report May 2011… “The paper trail that reveals how the results of drug trials were glossed over to cover up a link with suicide in teens. Now Glaxo Smith … Continue reading
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