Prozac ‘No Better Than Placebo’ for Treating Children with Depression, Experts Say
From The Guardian: "Clinical guidelines should no longer recommend Prozac for children, according to experts, after research showed it had no clinical benefit for...
Why Lawsuits About Psychiatric Malpractice Are Difficult to Win
From The Brownstone Institute, written by Peter Gotzsche: "When people under psychiatric care commit suicide or homicide, or are killed or seriously harmed, because...
Science For Sale: How Drugmakers Captured The FDA
From The Lever. "The pharmaceutical industry spent decades manipulating the country’s top drug regulator into rubber-stamping its products. The Trump administration is making matters...
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
From The New York Times. "To glimpse the future of homelessness policy in the age of President Trump, consider 16 acres of scrubby pasture...
Controversial Paxil “Study 329” Earns Expression of Concern After Critic Sues Publisher
From Retractionwatch.com:
"After more than 20 years of criticism and calls for retraction, a journal has placed an expression of concern on a study of...
Intellectual Freedom: An Endangered Basic Requirement of Scientific Publishing
A new editorial written by Giovanni Fava published in Rivista di Psichiatria.
"The intellectual capital of medicine is the creativity linking clinical practice and research....
Antidepressants Took Our Sex Lives Away — We Are Taking Them Back: Brooke Siem...
From Angie Peacock's YouTube channel. In this candid and deeply personal conversation, Brooke Siem, author of the award-winning memoir, May Cause Side Effects and...
Overmedicated in America: Share Your Story
The Wall Street Journal is reporting on the overprescribing of psychiatric drugs in America. They would like to hear about your experiences and any...
Podcast: Pharmaceutical Advertising and the Information Ecosystem
Lydia Green interviewed on the Voices in Bioethics podcast.
AI Could Make it Harder to Establish Blame for Medical Failings, Experts Say
From The Guardian: "The use of artificial intelligence in healthcare could create a legally complex blame game when it comes to establishing liability for...
Psychiatrist David Nutt Suggests More of the Same: Drugs
From the Journal of the Academy of Public Health, written by Peter Gøtzsche. "On 11 February 2025, Professor David Nutt published a personal view...
Will Cracking Down on Drug Ads Help Patients?
From Medpage Today: "HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, MD, MPH, would seemingly like us to believe that they...
The FDA’s Overdue Crackdown on Misleading Pharmaceutical Advertisements
From JAMA Network: "The US is one of only 2 countries worldwide that permits direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising. A 1997 regulatory change by the FDA...
Depression: Does Psychotherapy Make New Nerve Cells Grow?
From SciLogs: "According to a study at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, the effect of psychotherapy has now been “medically and scientifically” proven.
A research group...
ADHD: Not a Diagnosis but a Warning Label
From Medscape: "The title of a recent article in The New York Times asks, “Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong?” How would...
Wildflower Alliance in Revolt after Director Sera Davidow is Fired
From Wildflower Alliance Press Release
On Wednesday August 20th Wildflower Alliance co-founder and Director, Sera Davidow, was fired by the Western Mass Training Consortium (WMTC). This action...
NEW LAW Pushes Kids Onto Psychiatric Drugs
From Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring's YouTube channel: "Illinois just became the first state in the U.S. to roll out universal mental health screenings for students...
OpenAI Says It’s Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police
From Futurism: "For the better part of a year, we've watched — and reported — in horror as more and more stories emerge about...
Teen Killed Himself After ‘Months of Encouragement from ChatGPT’, Lawsuit Claims
From The Guardian: "Adam, from California, killed himself in April after what his family’s lawyer called “months of encouragement from ChatGPT”. The teenager’s family...
CANNOT CONTINUE’: NYC Law Would Allow Officials to Commit Drug Addicts
From Fox News: Investigative journalist Rob Wipond joins 'Fox & Friends Weekend' to discuss a New York City proposal to involuntarily commit drug addicts.
Illinois is the First State to Ban AI Therapists
From Engadget: "Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed a bill into law banning AI therapy in the state. This makes Illinois the first state...
FDA’s Artificial Intelligence is Supposed to Revolutionize Drug Approvals. It’s Making up Studies
From CNN. "To hear health officials in the Trump administration talk, artificial intelligence has arrived in Washington to fast-track new life-saving drugs to market,...
FDA Expert Panel on Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) and Pregnancy
An FDA expert roundtable on Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) and pregnancy to facilitate discussions on the safety of the developing child. Held on...
Pills, Profits & the Untold Story: A Conversation With Robert Whitaker
Katinka Newman interviews Robert Whitaker for the Med Free Mental Fitness podcast.
Court-ordered Treatment for Serious Mental Illness is ‘Inconclusive,’ Says Federal Report
From STAT (paid subscription required): "In the last decade, the federal government has provided $146 million to organizations that provide outpatient care to people...
