Eli Lilly To Freeze Base Pay in 2012

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Citing financial pressure from the loss of its patent on Zyprexa, Eli Lilly announced that it will freeze base pay for most of its...

First Personal Injury Lawsuit Over Risperdal Starts in New Jersey

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Gary Skala's claim that 14 years of Risperdal caused his diabetes went to trial in New Jersey yesterday in the first personal injury lawsuit...

Adverse Childhood Events Contribute Significantly to Most Mental Health Problems

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John Read and Richard Bentall write in the British Journal of Psychiatry about the growing understanding and acceptance of the significant role adverse childhood...

Bribery Alleged in Largest Antidepressant Study Ever Conducted

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A 2011 whistleblower complaint that was unsealed on January 20 of this year alleges that Forest Pharmaceuticals bribed a principle investigator of the STAR*D...

No Long-Term Efficacy For A.D.D. Medication

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L. Alan Sroufe, emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota, writes in the New York Times Sunday Review that there is no...

Legal Coercion, Recovery, and Human Rights

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Mary O'Hagan, an international mental health leader with lived experience, writes on the paradox of increasing legal coercion of psychiatric patients, even as the...

Evidence That Sadness When Bereaved is Not Illness

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While the DSM-IV recognizes that depressive symptoms are sometimes normal in bereaved individuals, this "Bereavement Exclusion" is targeted for elimination from the DSM-V. However...

Pfizer Files to Consolidate Birth Defect Lawsuitsd

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With at least 59 lawsuits pending over birth defects allegedly caused by Zoloft, Pfizer moves to consolidate litigation near its headquarters in New York. Read...

J&J Earnings Down 89%

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The Wall Street Journal reports that Johnson & Johnson's fourth-quarter earnings fell 89% following settlements for misrepresenting the risks and benefits of Risperdal, its...

Alarm About Antipsychotics as Sleep Aids

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Canadian sleep researchers, writing in The Lancet, warn that weight gain, lipid and glucose dysregulation, restless leg syndrome, sleep-walking and eating while asleep, and...

Elevated Diabetes in Children Treated With Antipsychotics, Antidepressants

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Researchers at the University of Massachusetts found that children are more than twice as likely to develop diabetes when treated with antidepressants, and more...

J&J Takes Hit on Wall Street for Its Corrupt Practices

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In the wake of the Johnson & Johnson's settlements over its improper marketing of Risperdal, Forbes magazine comments on the company's "vulnerable and now...

J&J Settles Texas Medicaid Lawsuit for $158 Million

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Johnson & Johnson has agreed to settle Texas' lawsuit for the company's fraudulent marketing of Risperdal. The is the first time J&J has settled...

Bipolar Office Visits Soar

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The number of "visits" by bipolar patients 18 and older to office-based physicians in the U.S. rose from 3.7 million in 1998 to 7.8...

One in Five Americans Uses a Psychiatric Drug

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Because of the increased use of generic drugs, there has been a slowdown in the growth of spending for psychiatric drugs in the United...

Nicotine Replacement Therapies Fail to Provide a Lasting Benefit

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In clinical trials, nicotine gum and patches are effective in helping people quit smoking. However, researchers have found that nicotine-replacement therapies do not lower...

Texas Lawsuit Against J&J Underway

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Texas' lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson for its off-label marketing of Risperdal, which the state alleges involved fraudulent claims about the drug's safety and...

J & J to Pay More Than $1 Billion For Wrongful Marketing of Risperdal

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In order to resolve a civil investigation into the marketing of Risperdal for unapproved uses, Johnson & Johnson will pay more than $1 billion...

Why Trials of Antidepressants Often Fail 

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In a review of seven clinical trials of duloxetine (Cymbalta), researchers found that the drug-treated patients fell into two groups: 76.7% "responded" to the...

Psychiatric Hospitalization of Children Soars

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From 1996 to 2007, the number of children ages five to 13 discharged from a psychiatric inpatient unit nearly doubled on a per-capita basis....

Wired Magazine on the DSM and Allen Frances

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Article from Wired magazine in 2010 about Allen Frances, lead editor of the DSM-IV, and his criticism of both the DSM-IV and the upcoming DSM-5. Article →Â