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Category Archives: medication madness
Drug sales reps skip the side effects – D’oh!
An article in Globe and Mail, Wed 10 Apr, reporting the results of a survey of Doctors in three countries including Canada that reveals just how much drug company reps skip out information about side effects when telling your doctor about … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, medication madness
Tagged David Healy, drug rep, medication, mental health, Psychiatric medication, side effects
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A disease called “childhood”
An opinion piece by Dr Allen Frances in New York Post pointing out how difficult it is to diagnose mental illness in teens, and all young people, and how the current practices lead to high levels of overdiagnosis, which in … Continue reading
Posted in medication madness, mental diversity, what's going on?
Tagged ADHD, ALLEN FRANCES, Big Pharma, childhood, DSM-5, magical thinking
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From psychiatric patient to human being: My journey in a nutshell.
A wonderfully open and frank piece by Flo Bellamy about her struggles and her encounter with psychiatric services that could only medicate her: so making her even more ill. Then how she and her family discovered the movie “The Doctor Who hears Voices” … Continue reading
Posted in hearing voices, medication madness, psychosis
Tagged Flo Bellamy, Healing, hearing voices, Psychology, recovery, Rufus May
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Ben Goldacre: Bad Science, Bad Pharma, not too shabby Valentine ?
Ben Goldacre is a UK physician, epidemiologist and writer who has been an outspoken critic of the current research / publication system. He has written two books on the topic, and also has two very engaging TED talks . He … Continue reading
are psychiatric drugs the culprit behind tragic mass shootings ?
Let’s really talk… A slightly different message from most of those you’ll hear today and this week as part of “Let’s Talk”. Here’s Psychiatrist Dr Peter Breggin talking with Fox Business’ Tom Sullivan , about the association between acts of … Continue reading
Posted in medication madness, what's going on?
Tagged Let's Talk, mental health, Paxil, Peter Breggin, Prozac, Psychiatric medication, Psychiatry
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side effects
Medications are chemicals and have effects when we take them . Some of those effects – the “therapeutic” effects – are the reason your Doctor may suggest or recommend you take them. But all medications have other effects too – … Continue reading
Posted in medication madness, The Mad Ones
Tagged Anxiety, medication, mental health, side effects
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battling bad science – ben goldacre
Ben Goldacre on the tricks and trickery employed by those peddling their “cures” on us – from fake credentials that your cat have for $60; to elaborate and multimillion dollar schemes pharmaceutical companies deply to run trials to get exactly … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, medication madness
Tagged Bad Science, Ben Goldacre, medication, TED
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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
Posted in anatomy of an epidemic, medication madness, what's going on?
Tagged badscience, Ben Goldacre, Psychiatric medication, TED
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Beyond The Brain – Tania Lurhman
Article by Tania Marie Luhrman from The Wilson Quartery Summer 2012 Lurhmann surveys the shapeshifting landscape that is our understanding of “schizophrenia”: from the rise to hegemony and the current Icarus-like fall from the sun of the bio-bio-bio science-fraud/ shadenfreude; through people-based movements like … Continue reading
Posted in hearing voices, Ideas, medication madness, what's going on?
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