ADHD Medication Use Rising Dramatically, Especially Adults
A report released today by Express Scripts, the nation's largest prescription drug manager, offers "the most current and comprehensive analysis of ADHD medication use"...
Benzo Rx Increasing Dramatically in U.S., Often With Opiods
Research presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Pain Medicine finds that 12.6% of primary care visits in the U.S. involved...
Teva to Pay $27.6M to Settle Clozapine False Claims Lawsuit
Teva Pharmaceuticals has agreed to pay $27 million to settle federal and state accusation of false claims regarding the antipsychotic Clozapine, and payments made...
A History of Rapid Tranquilization
A paper by Joanna Moncrieff and Laura Allison in the journal History of Psychiatry reviews "the theory and practice of emergency sedation for behavioural...
Jury Awards $3M to Family of 5-Year-Old With Topamax-Related Birth Defects
A Pennsylvania jury awarded $3 million to the family of a 5-year-old born with cleft palate and lip as a result of the mother...
Psychotic Experiences Are Not Strongly Associated With Schizophrenia
Although psychotic experiences (PEs) and schizophrenia are thought to share similar etiological risk factors, PEs also co-exist with depression and, according to research from...
J&J Settles With Montana for $5.9M in Risperdal Marketing Lawsuit
Subsidiaries of Johnson & Johnson have agreed to pay $5.9 million to settle Montana's lawsuit over the company's fraudulent marketing of Risperdal. According to...
50% of All Clinical Trials Go Unpublished
Half of the 600 randomly selected trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov, a registry of publicly and privately supported clinical trials, had their results published in...
Cigarette Smoking and Cannabis Equally Associated With ‘Psychotic-Like’ Experiences
Research from the Netherlands finds, in a nationwide survey of 1929 young adults, that cigarette smoking and cannabis were equally strongly associated with the...
Nightmares in Childhood Associated With Later Psychosis
Children who reported experiencing frequent nightmares between 2.5 and 9 years of age were significantly more likely to report psychotic experiences at age 12, regardless...
Stimulants, But Not Cannabis, Predict Readmission for Psychosis
Prior admissions with stimulant disorder, but not a prior cannabis disorder diagnosis, are a negative prognostic sign in first-episode psychosis according to new research...
Community-Based Treatment Beats Facilities in Low-Income Country Schizophrenia Study
Treatment by lay health workers is more effective than standard facility-based care at reducing disability and psychotic symptoms in people with schizophrenia diagnoses, according...
FDA Releases New Guidelines on Scientific Literature Used for Promotional Purposes
The FDA has released a new checklist meant to clarify the ways a pharmaceutical manufacturer may use scientific and medical literature to promote products....
J&J Takes Last Stab at $1.2B Risperdal Verdict
Lawyers for Johnson & Johnson took the stand in Arkansas today, a final effort at convincing the Arkansas Supreme Court to overturn a jury's...
Paternal Age Associated With Children’s Mental Health
A study in JAMA Psychiatry finds that the association between advanced paternal age and psychiatric and academic morbidity is stronger than previously estimated, and...
Effects of Psychotropic Drugs on Developing Brains: Protocol
Animal studies have raised concerns about SSRIs and ADHD stimulants inducing lasting abnormalities in the developing brain. Researchers from the University of Amsterdam are...
Expanded Health Insurance Reduces Psych Admissions
A study in JAMA Psychiatry finds that inpatient admissions for behavioral health disorders significantly declined following the 2006 expansion of health insurance coverage in...
Exposure to Family Distress in Childhood Affects Brain Development
Research from the University of East Anglia find that children who experienced chronic, but relatively common, family difficulties - such as arguments, tension, or...
Bullying Affects Mental and Physical Health Long-Term
Researchers from Boston Children's Hospital analyzed data from 4297 children surveyed over 3 time points (fifth, seventh and tenth grades) to find that bullying...
$1.5M Award in Child Tardive Dyskinesia Malpractice Lawsuit
A Chicago jury awarded $1.5 million to an autistic child who developed irreversible and disabling tardive dyskinesia and tardive akathisia while treated with Risperdal,...
Paxil Boosts Estrogen, May Promote Breast Cancer Growth
A trial of a new process of identifying drugs that can disrupt sex hormones singled out Paxil from 446 common drugs as having a weak...
Moving Schools Linked to Psychosis in Early Adolescence
Furthering findings that social adversity and urbanicity increase the risk of psychosis, research in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry finds that moving schools, family adversity,...
Adverse Emotional and Interpersonal Effects of Antidepressants
Adverse effects of antidepressants, including sexual difficulties and emotional numbing, apathy, suicidality and withdrawal effects may be more frequent than previously reported, according to...
Short “DUP” Predicts Better Outcome
A Hong Kong study links short "Duration of Untreated Psychosis" (DUP) to better long-term outcome. The authors propose that factors linked to long DUP...
Risperdal Lawsuit Website Launched
A website has been launched by the firm of Bernstein Liebhard LLP, who are filing cases on behalf of men and young boys who allegedly...
