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Pills to Help in School
Article by A Schwarz in NY Times Oct 25th – about how more and more children in America are taking pill to cope in school- in effect to make up for inadequacies in the school system. It doesn’t take years of researchers researching … Continue reading
ADHD drugs suspected of hurting Canadian kids
First in an excellent series by Toronto Star reporter David Bruser investigating adverse drug reaction reporting in Canada – a system which is as woefully inadequate as those in other countries. Do you too find it difficult to conclude anything other than that the … Continue reading
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Tagged ADHD, ADHD In Teenagers, Health Canada, mental health, Psychiatric medication, Toronto Star
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Vitamin B deficiency linked to troubled teens
Report from Western Australia on research showing link between insufficient vitamin B in diet and what researchers call “externalisation of problems “, which appears as agitation and aggression, “acting out” and results in them being called delinquent; and “internalisation of problems” … Continue reading
Posted in depression, family, mania & depression, mental illness? or..., stress, The Mad Ones
Tagged brain food, mental health, Psychiatric medication, Vitamin B
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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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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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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
Posted in anatomy of an epidemic, family, medication madness, youth
Tagged Louis Theroux, mental health, Psychiatric medication
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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
A Tale of Mental Illness – from the inside – Elyn Saks
ceci ce n’est pas “un schizophrenic “ . . . Elyn Saks delivers a powerful and courageous TED talk. “So I’m a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I’ve spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I might have ended up spending … Continue reading
Posted in advocacy and rights, family, mental skillness, psychosis, The Mad Ones
Tagged Elyn Saks, mental health, my story, Psychiatric medication, schizophrenia
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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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Tagged Antidepressant, Psychiatric medication
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