Tag: drug side effects
Medication Overload, Part I: A Mountain of Drugs in Americaâs Cabinets
The 25th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day takes place on Saturday, October 28âand this time around, Iâll be there.
The upcoming event will provide...
Nerve Damage, Mouth Ulcers, & More: My Battle with Drug Side...
Since 2020 began, I have had a minimum of two to five excruciating ulcers in my mouth most of the time. I believe they're a side effect of the psychiatric drugs I am on. Yet most doctors won't take my symptoms seriously.
There Is No Such Thing as a Side Effect
There is no such thing as a side effect. There are only the real effects â plain and simple. If youâve been through what Iâve been through, shuffling through life in a drug-induced haze for eight years â well, you donât want to hear about âside effectsâ anymore, or anything about how theyâre âsecondary.â
Scaling Up Psychiatric Interventions Globally May Impede UN Goals
Peter Lehmann argues that administering psychiatric drugs in low-and-middle-income countries works at cross purposes with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
The FDA Is Hiding Reports Linking Psych Drugs to Homicides
In my wildest dreams, I could never have imagined being drawn into a story of intrigue involving my own governmentâs efforts to hide, from the public, reports of psychiatric drugs associated with cases of murder, including homicides committed by youth on the drugs. But that is precisely the intrigue I now find myself enmeshed in.