Tag: Antipsychotics
“I Was Just Following Orders”: a Seroquel Suicide, a Study Coordinator,...
Out here in Minnesota, where the snow is gently falling, many of us are hunched over our computers, puzzling over a document just posted by the state Board of Social Work. It concerns the death of Dan Markingson (or as the document calls him, “Client #1”). Markingson, of course, was a young man under a commitment order who was coerced into a profitable Seroquel marketing study at the University of Minnesota over the objections of his mother, and whose condition spiraled downward until he committed suicide.
New Research Project to be Funded by the Foundation for Excellence...
Over the last 30 years Dr. Martin Harrow, Ph.D., has collected data from over 1000 interviews with people who have lived experience with mental illness. His research has been the basis for a number of papers delineating the effect of medications on those he interviewed. Further analysis of the data will answer several questions that provide the basis for a better understand of the long term effects of anti-psychotics on the treatment of schizophrenia.
Jonah Lehrer was also Wrong About Antipsychotics
We spend a lot of time writing about knowledge dissemination in mental health, and over time, have increasingly recognized the important role of science...
Avoidance of Voices Can Be as Problematic as Listening Too Much
In the system of mental health “care” which is dominant today, “hearing voices” is conceptualized as an illness, and so the goal is seen...
Dyskinesia, Dissociation, and the Long Term Consequences of “Antipsychotic” Drugs
I recently receive a tweet from Intervoice, that said “This is a odd research finding in my view, what do you think? http://fb.me/L9cs3NTR”
Curious, I...
Texas Lawsuit Against J&J Underway
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...