Tag: antidepressants

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?

Slower tapering of antidepressant dose is generally more comfortable. However, success or failure after stopping completely mostly relates to whether tardive akathisia occurs.

A new review of strategies to support both patients and practitioners through the process of discontinuing antidepressants.

New strategies for tapering psychiatric drugs achieved by acknowledging withdrawal symptoms and valuing service-users’ first-hand knowledge.

Once an appropriate statistical method was used, the study findings were “no longer valid,” according to the editors of JAMA and JAMA Psychiatry.

Researchers find that most psychiatric drugs cause severe withdrawal despite attempt s to gradually decrease the dosage.

“This is remarkable for drugs that are used to treat depressive symptoms,” write the researchers.

With these twelve facts, you are equipped to defend against the misinformation propagated by academic psychiatry, Big Pharma, and the laypeople they target. You are encouraged to use this knowledge to (firmly but respectfully) challenge statements you hear in passing or from loved-ones such as “He is mentally ill,” “I have a chemical imbalance and these drugs help correct it,” or any other commonly accepted falsehoods that the above facts expose.

Researchers suggest that because most antidepressant “success” is due to the placebo effect, they may never find a way to predict outcomes.

Trials of antidepressants for relapse prevention are confounded by withdrawal effects caused by the drugs.

A new study indicates that popular online resources do not accurately present the scientific evidence on the risks and benefits of antidepressants.

New study finds that Medicaid enrolled youth were 14 times more likely to be on an antidepressant in 2014 than in 1987.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins test paroxetine on developing brain cells and discover numerous neurotoxic effects.

There are three steps to modern psychiatry’s successful business formula: 1. Get people to think that they’re stupid even though they’re smart. 2. Train them to actually think stupidly. 3. Directly stupidify them with chemicals.

Researchers confirm that the suicide warning for antidepressants is justified by the evidence and that claims that the warning is harmful lack support.

Researcher criticizes the many ways opposing viewpoints and dissenting voices are squashed in the field of medicine.

Researchers suggest that the pharmaceutical industry had a vested interest in using the term “discontinuation” in order to hide the severity of physical dependence and withdrawal reactions many people experience from antidepressants.