Do Antidepressants Increase Risk of Adult Suicide?
FromĀ From Insults to Respect: It is commonly assumed that antidepressants increase the risk of suicide in children and young adults, but not in adults...
Missouri Sued for Over-Drugging Foster Children
FromĀ Reuters: Two youth legal advocacy groups have filed a lawsuit against Missouri for over-exposing foster children to psychotropic drugs. The lawsuit seeks a court...
Invitations to Crucial Re-orientation
In this lectureĀ for the Forum for Existential Psychology and Therapy,Ā SĆøren Hertz, a child and adolescent psychiatrist in Denmark,Ā challenges ourĀ tendencies on to focus on individual...
Study Investigates Physicians’ Beliefs About Placebo and Nocebo Effects of Antidepressants
Surveyed doctors overestimate pharmacological effects of antidepressants and underestimate placebo effects.
The Scarlet F: Why Fat Shaming Harms Health
FromĀ Harvard Public Health: Weight stigma, or prejudiceĀ toward people of size, can have a significant impact on both mental and physical health. On the other...
The Fictions and Futures of Transformative Justice
In this interview forĀ The New Inquiry, two co-editors and three writers ofĀ Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements discuss prison abolition and...
Trial Over Suicide and Texting Lays Bare Pain of 2 Teenagers
FromĀ The New York Times: Michelle Carter, a 20-year-old woman, is currently being triedĀ for urging her boyfriend to kill himself via text message. According to...
A Radical Hypothesis: Give Patients Drugs They Know Don’t Work
In this interview forĀ Vox, Ted Kaptchuk discusses his research on the effectiveness of giving open-label placebos - sugar pills that the doctors admit are...
āSalami Slicingā Found in Analyses of Antipsychotic Trials
Evidence of duplicate publishing in articles analyzing data from clinical trials testing second-generation antipsychotics for depression
The Virtual Couch: Is Online Therapy Going Viral?
FromĀ Alternet: Applications that provide online counseling, such as BetterHelp and Talkspace, are increasing in popularity. While some studies support the effectiveness of virtual therapy,...
The Ketamine Consensus?
FromĀ Discover Magazine: A group of psychiatrists from the American Psychiatric Association has recently released A Consensus Statement on the Use of Ketamine in the...
I’m Sorry I Was Being So Crazy While You Treated Me Like Shit
FromĀ Reductress: "Let me just start this by saying I am so sorry I have been acting so crazy lately; I donāt know whatās gotten...
FBI Raids Lab That Pays Doctors to Promote Genetic Tests
FromĀ STAT: Federal investigators recently searched Proove Biosciences, a genetic testing company that purports to determine an individual's likelihood of becoming addicted to opioids.Ā Proove's genetic...
Research Finds Ketamine Does Not Reduce Delirium or Pain After Surgery
Contrary to widely-held belief, a new rigorous trial finds that ketamine is ineffective for delirium and pain associated with surgery, and the drug carries harmful side effects.
World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day: Official Launch
World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day has just launched its official website,Ā w-bad.org. The new site includes useful information about benzodiazepines, ideas for taking action, and video...
The Crisis of Expertise
FromĀ Aeon: Experts have been wrong many times throughout history, from nutritional scientists' claims that eggs might be lethal in the 1970s to the Nobel...
Doctors Tortured Patients at Ontario Mental-Health Centre
FromĀ The Globe and Mail: A judge has recently ruled that patients at a mental health facility in Ontario were tortured by doctors over a...
Malignant Normality
In this pieceĀ forĀ Dissent Magazine, Robert Jay Lifton discusses how society's normalization of evil has led physicians and healthcare professionals to legitimize and participate in...
United Nations Report Calls for Revolution in Mental Health Care
In a new report, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Dr. Dainius PÅ«ras, calls for a move away from the biomedical model and āexcessive use of psychotropic medicines.ā
Are Pharmaceutical Companies to Blame for the Opioid Epidemic?
FromĀ The Atlantic: As opioid abuse rises, some attorneys general and advocates are filing lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies for misleading doctors and the public about...
Stories from the Psych Ward: Why Drugs Aren’t the Cure
In this piece forĀ Elephant Journal, one man tells his story of being locked up and forcibly drugged in the psych ward, and how he...
Drug Policy Alliance Member Targeted by Philippine President
From theĀ Drug Policy Alliance: Last week, Drug Policy Alliance Board Member Dr. Carl Hart visited the Philippines to speak at a drug policy forum....
Researchers Reveal Misconceptions About ADHD
A new article explains common misconceptions about ADHD that are held by teachers and mental health professionals and may lead to overdiagnosis and overmedication in schools.
Corrupt Health Care Practices Drive Up Costs and Fail Patients
FromĀ The Huffington Post: Corruption is insidiously pervasive in our healthcare system and dramatically increases our health expenditures. Patients are increasingly being given unnecessary treatments...
Big Pharma Might Be Intentionally Confusing You
FromĀ Benzinga: The FDA has suggested that drug commercials may intentionally list potential side effects in such a rapid-fire, overwhelming way that the warning messages...
