Tag: antidepressants

The prominent psychiatrist explores why antidepressants remain highly overprescribed and offers solutions to the problem.

On Denmark's declining use of depression pills for children, and why one should never stop fighting to change psychiatry and society's reliance on it.

Researchers find a lack of current literature on safe, effective ways to manage antidepressant withdrawal and make suggestions for future research.

The psychiatrists have fought really hard to hide the terrible truth that depression pills double the risk of suicide, not only in children but also in adults.

After 15 years, the founder of SurvivingAntidepressants.org, Adele Framer, shares what she has learned about the science of withdrawing from psychiatric drugs.

Adverse physiological symptoms of antidepressant withdrawal are regularly mistaken to be other problems to the detriment of the patient.

Bias and financial conflicts in antidepressant trials “contribute to systematic underestimation of risk in the published literature.”

Due to lackluster antidepressant study results, researchers test if subgroups of depressed patients show greater improvement.

There are quite a few books published about the lack of benefit and harm caused by so-called "antidepressants." Prescription for Sorrow, by Patrick Hahn, is simply the best one I have read.

With the leadership of industry and their cosseted, lapdog doctors, psychiatric medications are prescribed indiscriminately to nearly anyone entering a physician’s office with a psychological complaint.

Protracted Withdrawal Syndrome characterized by long-term adverse experiences after coming off of antidepressants.

New research finds that antidepressants are not effective for bipolar disorder and can worsen symptoms of mania.

Patient advocates join with researchers and service users to present first-hand experiences of antidepressant withdrawal.

The promotion of SSRI antidepressant use began with the pharmaceutical industry and occurs despite evidence that these drugs are harmful, not helpful, in children and adolescents.

“My life was very, very good.” That’s how Michael sums up how things were for him—prior to his suffering from devastating withdrawal effects after discontinuing GlaxoSmithKline’s blockbuster drug Paxil.

Our new discussion series aims to explore what we do and don’t know about safe withdrawal from antidepressants, antipsychotics, benzodiazepines and stimulants.

Researchers investigate the claim that the introduction of antidepressant drugs led to decreases in suicide rates internationally.

Noted antidepressant researcher, Michael Hengartner, summarizes the latest research on the use of antidepressants in children and adolescents.

Medically-induced harm—affecting tens of millions of people worldwide—has taken the field decades to take seriously.

Researchers review a new synthesis of the existing evidence and conclude that the harms of antidepressants outweigh any benefits.

A new study finds that adding an antipsychotic to existing antidepressant treatment is associated with a 45% increased risk of early death.

Taking an SSRI antidepressant was associated with a 26% increased risk of violent crime conviction.

Studies that compare the effectiveness of different antidepressant drugs are unreliable, according to new research in BMC Psychiatry.

A new study by Peter Groot and Jim van Os investigated whether tapering strips can help people stop using antidepressants.

Psychiatry has a history of continuing to perform harmful, even deadly procedures. But does it still happen? Medication-induced akathisia filled two and a half pages of the DSM-IV. Why was it written out of the DSM 5?