Doctors Didn’t Warn ‘Deviant Sexual Behaviour’ was Side Effect of Restless Legs Syndrome Drug
From The Independent. "Patients who were prescribed drugs for restless legs syndrome (RLS) have said doctors did not warn them about significant side effects...
Weight Loss Drugs: 82 Deaths Linked to Adverse Reactions, UK Data Show
From The BMJ. "Data submitted to the UK drugs regulator show a total of 82 deaths related to glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, the class...
The Number of People With Chronic Conditions is Soaring. Are we Less Healthy Than...
From The Guardian. "I have been a doctor for more than 30 years and a neurologist for 25 of those. I have recently grown particularly...
Antidepressants May Hasten Decline From Dementia, Study Says
From CNN. Doctors often use antidepressants to manage the depression, anxiety and agitation that accompanies a diagnosis of dementia. Now, a new study suggests the...
Lindsay Clancy, Who Killed Her Three Children, Was on Three Antidepressants
From The Boston Globe.
"A hearing is scheduled in Plymouth Superior Court Friday where Lindsay Clancy is being prosecuted for murdering her three children in...
Illegal Fraud is the Norm for Psychiatric Commitment
Rob Wipond reports on more investigations that reveal systemic abuses of patients’ rights.
New Book by Courageous Psychiatrist about Her Profession’s Most Damaging Falsehood
Writing in CounterPunch, Bruce Levine reviews Joanna Moncrieff's new book Chemically Imbalanced.
Peter Gøtzsche’s Video Interviews on Psychiatry
Here are recent interviews by Peter Gøtzsche on his site Broken Medical Science. including a recent interview with Jim Gottstein.
The STAR*D Scandal
Why Forced Treatment With...
Coroner Issues Warning About Antidepressants After Suicide of Royal’s Husband
A coroner has issued a warning about the effects of antidepressants prescribed by a Buckingham Palace doctor to the son-in-law of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent before his suicide.
Video: Origins of Mental Disturbance in a ‘Normal’ Family – Like Mine – Peter...
ABSMC Psychiatry Grand Rounds presentation by Neuroscientist Peter Sterling, PhD on December 2, 2024. In this video, Peter Sterling talks of his family experiences...
Pollution Exposure Linked to Mental Health Hospital Admissions, Says Study
From The Guardian: Exposure to air pollution is linked to an increased risk of hospital admission for mental illness, according to the most comprehensive study...
Laura Van Tosh on the Viva La Evolution podcast
VIVA LA EVOLUTION is a podcast about personal and organizational recovery and resilience. In this episode, Lori Ashcroft interviews Laura Van Tosh. Laura has...
Husband of UK Royal Took own Life After ‘Adverse Effects of Medication’
From The Guardian: The son-in-law of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent killed himself after suffering adverse side-effects from antidepressants prescribed by a Buckingham Palace...
We Should #DropTheDisorder Because….
Allies of adisorder4everyone.com share their reasons why we should "Drop the disorder!" in a promotional video for the AD4E annual online festival on Friday, November 8.
Will Denial Make DSM’s Validity Problem Go Away?
The Psychiatric Times has been hosting a point/counterpoint regarding the validity of DSM diagnoses, which began when two Finnish researchers, Jussi Valtonen and Jani...
The Drug-based Approach to Mental Illness Has Failed
Science writer John Horgan interviews Robert Whitaker about his book Anatomy of an Epidemic, the long-term impact of psychiatric drugs, and promising alternatives to...
Billions of Dollars Later, Neuroscientists Still Struggling to Address Mental Health Crisis
From Vox: It’s possible that some of the best mental health care lies outside Western psychiatry altogether.
Scores of Papers by Top NIH Neuroscientist Eliezer Masliah Fall Under Suspicion
From Science: The questionable data implicates many studies that underpin the development and testing of experimental Alzheimer's and Parkinson's drugs.
Capitalism Is Driven by Mental Illness
Psychedelics are useful not for the hallucinations they provide, but for the hallucinations they dispel.
Involuntary Care Doesn’t Work. What BC Should Do Instead
From The Tyee: An evidence-based approach clearly shows that the reliance on detention, force and coercion over the past two decades has not led to better outcomes.
Beyond Pharmacare
From Briarpatch Magazine: Prisoner advocates and family members of institutionalized people depict the overprescribing epidemic as attempts to “control behaviour” turning people into “zombies.”
The U.S. Disconnecting & Numbing Epidemic: The Culprit and Our Options
From CounterPunch: We are increasingly being forced to become machine components alienated from our humanity so as to fit into a large machine.
Targeted: For Those Who Hear Voices, the ‘Broken Brain’ Explanation Is Harmful
From Aeon: If psychiatry’s medical vision is failing, what should we replace it with? How can we break out of this bind?
Descriptive Labels Are Not Causes, No Matter How Hard You Try: A Response to...
From Psychiatric Times: If circular claims are presented together with unfounded claims about purported brain mechanisms, they may further bias people towards falsely assuming that biological causes and mechanisms have been identified for psychiatric problems.
Psychiatric Diagnoses Don’t Explain ‘Why’—Only ‘How’
From Psychology Today/Denise Winn: Finnish researchers found that the most influential health organizations "used language that inaccurately described depression as a causal explanation to depressive symptoms."
