Yearly Archives: 2012
The Treatment of Acute Schizophrenia Without Drugs
The Treatment of Acute Schizophrenia Without Drugs. Carpenter, W. American Journal of Psychiatry, 134 (1977), 14-20.
In this 1977 NIMH study, 49 schizophrenia patients placed into an experimental...
Comparing five-year outcomes in the pre-Thorazine era and the post-Thorazine era.
Comparison of Two Five-Year Follow-up Studies.Bockoven, J. American Journal of Psychiatry, 132 (1975), 796-801.
In this study, Boston psychiatrists Sanbourne Bockoven and Harry Solomon compared relapse rates...
Discontinuation of Chemotherapy for Chronic Schizophrenics
Discontinuation of Chemotherapy for Chronic Schizophrenics. Prien, R. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 22 (1971), 20-23.
In this NIMH study, the earlier finding that relapse rates rose in...
Relapse in Chronic Schizophrenics following Abrupt Withdrawal of Tranquilizing Medication
Relapse in Chronic Schizophrenics following Abrupt Withdrawal of Tranquilizing Medication. Prien, R. British Journal of Psychiatry, 115 (1968), 679-86.
The critical finding of this NIMH study was that...
NIMHâs First Follow-Up Study
a)  One Year After Discharge. Schooler, N. American Journal of Psychiatry, 123 (1967):986-995.
This NIMH study looked at one-year outcomes for 299 patients who had been treated either...
Environmental Factors Drive Mania
Harvard researchers investigated 6,214 cases of major depression for factors that would predict transition to bipolar disorder. Â Clinical characteristics such as age of onset...
Brain Volume Recovers With Remission, Not With Medication
In a prospective study of 28 outpatients with major depression, Canadian researchers investigated whether brain volume changes stabilized with antidepressant treatment and/or reversed with...
Ongoing Brain Changes With Antipsychotic Treatment
Nancy Andreasen's 2003 study finding ongoing brain changes in persons with schizophrenia diagnoses, despite antipsychotic drug treatment.
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NY Times Interview With Nancy Andreasen
Nancy Andreasen talks with the New York Times in 2008 about her MRI findings that antipsychotics cause the brain to shut down and atrophy,...
Are There Schizophrenics for Whom Drugs May be Unnecessary or Contraindicated?
1978 study of 80 young males diagnosed with acute schizophrenia, finding that "many unmedicated-while-in-hospital patients showed greater long-term improvement, less pathology at follow-up, fewer...
Poverty & Mental Illness: You Can’t Have One Without the Other
If youâve spent any time in the public mental health system, you know that folks diagnosed or labeled as having serious mental illnesses are...
No Evidence for Antipsychotics’ Efficacy
In a review of 681 studies comparing use of antipsychotic medication with placebo, milieu, or psychosocial treatment in first- or second-episode schizophrenia spectrum disorders,...
Senator Pursues Antipsychotic Prescription Practices
Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) "inappropriate prescriptions." Finds "shocking" that medicaid prescribers write "more prescriptions than seems humanly possible."
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Second-Generation Antipsychotics Increase Risk of Pneumonia
Taiwanese researchers found that second-generation antipsychotics increased the risk of pneumonia in a sample of 33,024 inpatients.
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Second-Generation Antipsychotics Associated With Increased Pneumonia
In a study of 33,024 Taiwanese inpatients, researchers found there was a 3.18 times higher, dose-dependent risk of pneumonia associated with clozapine. Quetiapine, olanzapine,...
100% Of DSM Schizophrenia and Mood Disorder “Experts” Have Ties to Drug Companies
A 2006 study in the journal Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics finds that 100% of schizophrenia and mood disorder experts and over 80% of other experts advising...
The Antidepressant Solution
Book by Joseph Glenmullen, a "Step-by-Step Guide to Safely Overcoming Antidepressant Withdrawal, Dependence and 'Addiction.'"
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Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs
Will Hall's Harm Reduction Guide, published by the Icarus Project and Freedom Center.
Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry
Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry is a "book of alternatives around the world. (Ex-) users and survivors of psychiatry, therapists, psychiatrists, lawyers, social scientists and relatives report...
Leading Drugs For Psychosis Come Under New Scrutiny
May, 2003 article in the New York Times questioning the promise of second-generation antipsychotics.
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Atypical Antipsychotics in the Treatment of Schizophrenia: Systematic Overview and Meta-Regression Analysis
An overview of 52 randomized controlled trials of conventional v. atypical antipsychotics in a total of 12,649 patients, published in the British Medical Journal in...
Benzodiazepines: How They Work and How to Withdraw
Protocol for the Treatment of Benzodiazepine Withdrawal, written by Dr. C. Heather Ashton ("The Ashton Manual"), published and available free of charge on Benzo.org.
This...
Benzo.org
U.K. based website focussing on benzodiazepine addiction, withdrawal & recovery.
The Case Against Antipsychotic Drugs: a 50-Year Record of Doing More Harm Than Good
Robert Whitaker's comprehensive 2004 review of the record for antipsychotic outcomes.
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Psychrights
The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights) is a non-profit public interest law firm whose mission is to mount a strategic legal campaign against...
