Info Because of a MindFreedom alert, many people wrote to the USA National Institute of Mental Health by the 21 Dec. 2007 deadline with comments about NIMH research goals over the next three to five years. Read some of the remarks and find out how to contact NIMH after the deadline. With a few exceptions,…
Info This letter by David Oaks is a reply to Pfizer’s response to a request for evidence supporting their claim that a chemical imbalance in the brain underlies major depressive disorder. 16 April 2004 Oaks – Clary.pdf — PDF document, 71Kb Document Actions Print this
Info This is a letter from David Oaks to the FCC, FDA, and FTC, addressing the unsupported claims of a chemical imbalance in the brain made by Pfizer in their advertisements for the drug Zoloft. 16 April 2004 FCC FDA FTC.pdf — PDF document, 70Kb Document Actions Print this
Info This letter from MindFreedom’s scientific panel addresses Pfizer’s failure to provide evidence to support their claim of a chemical imbalance in the brain. 11 March 2004 Panel – Clary.pdf — PDF document, 72Kb Document Actions Print this
Info MindFreedom International’s Correspondence with Pfizer In 2004, MindFreedom challenged pharmaceutical giant Pfizer to produce evidence of the chemical imbalance its drugs were advertised to correct. This folder contains a record of the correspondence that took place. 9 December 2003 – Letter from David Oaks to the FCC, FDA and FTC 9 December 2003 –…
Info Document Actions Print this A psychiatrist who has taken thousands of dollars in psychiatric drug company pay-offs to present promotional speeches about their products exposes some of the techniques, and promises never to behave that way again. Dr. Drug Rep Date Published: Nov 25, 2007 01:00 AM Author: Daniel Carlat, MD Source: The New…
Info Document Actions Print this Author, psychologist and activist Bruce E. Levine compares the profit and fraud of the military-industrial complex to the psychopharmaceutical-industrial complex. As mental illness has become profitable, we are seeing more of it Date Published: Nov 01, 2007 01:00 AM Author: Bruce E. Levine, PhD Source: Z Magazine Original source: http://www.zmag.org/…
Info Document Actions Print this A Street Spirit interview with Robert Whitaker, who has investigated how the psychiatric drug industry is endangering the American public by covering up the untold cases of suffering, anguish and disease caused by the most widely prescribed antidepressants and antipsychotic medications. “Psychiatric Drugs: An Assault on the Human Condition” Date…
Info Document Actions Print this Columnist Evelyn Pringle examines the consequences, in terms of deaths and injuries, in the wake of the Bush Administration’s enabling of the virtual takeover of the Food and Drug Administration by the pharmaceutical industry. Pringle cites the FDA’s announcement that its approval of drugs and prescription labels preempts the rights…
Info MindFreedom Editorial: What is a “pharmentalist”? A pharmaceutical fundamentalist believes we can reduce some of life’s most complex problems down to a simple level of a genetically-caused chemical imbalance. This “pharmentalism” can be harmful to our planet’s health. Pharmamentalism is now a threat in the USA and the planet. by David Oaks, Director, MFI…