Category Archives: Crazy World

Inner Ninja – Classified ft David Myles


Nobody’s gonna see me comin’ Nobody’s gonna hear a sound No matter how hard they tryin’ No stoppin’ me since I’ve found My inner ninja thanks to 9ft Ninja Kiwi for this one… . “Inner Ninja” (feat. David Myles) I … Continue reading

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Dying By Prescription: Oxycontin controversy


  Global TV’s  Current affairs show 16×9 [Canada]  Published on Aug 22, 2012 Part 1 – Oxycotin was touted as a miracle, pain relief with few side effects and less addictive than morphine. Soon it was the most prescribed drug in … Continue reading

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Bad Bad Bad: how drug companies mislead doctors – Ben Goldacre


Dr Ben Goldacre is a physician, psychiatrist and epidemiologist; writer, broadcaster and really fast TEDtalker. He was in Toronto publicising his new book Bad Science in Feb, here he is in interview with Anna Maria Tremonte on CBC’s The Current from … Continue reading

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how medicines are marketed


A wonderful look back in time -from io9.com -to the days when marketing pharmaceuticals was much more innocent. Travelling snake oil salesmen criss-crossed the land twixt town and city, peddling their wares to  convince you and me  that their poisons were worth … Continue reading

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The Most Astounding Fact – Neil deGrasse Tyson


Neil deGrasse Tyson is a real scientist – he gets that what he knows is tiny compared with what he can still learn. Not only is he not afraid of what he does not know, he is excited by it: … Continue reading

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voices inside my head – Sting and 400,000 people, Warsaw


Sting in Warsaw Leading a sing-a-long of “Voices inside my head” There are not many words- ten- so please ,join in too. Chemical imbalance my ass indeed. https://recoverynetworktoronto.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/chemical-imbalance-my-ass/

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DSM5 – mad, bad, or just plain daft ?


Only days to go in the countdown to the publication of the worlds most expensive doorstop DSM5. If you really do need a doorstop try your  local dollar store – mine has two for $1.29 and they work perfectly well. … Continue reading

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22 April 2013 – Earth Day


1.5 the number of earth-like planets we need to sustain human activity with current population and lifestyle patterns. . 2  the number of earth-like planets we’ll need by 2020. . . 3  One in three  people alive today do not have … Continue reading

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The evidence is crystal clear – CTOs don’t work


Article in UK Independent newspaper with the psychiatrist who first championed their use and advised UK Govt on the introduction of Community Treatment Orders.   Prof Tom Burns, head of Social Psychiatry at Oxford University now says that following a … Continue reading

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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

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