Info Megan Short has prepared a brief description about how you can file an official report regarding adverse reactions to psychiatric drugs. A few nations are listed such as Canada, USA, etc. However, you may be able to find similar resources in your own nation. This is an early draft, and may change. adr-initiative.doc —…
Info Document Actions Print this The Lancet, a widely-respected international medical journal, published an essay sharply critical of the psychiatric industry that reviews two books: “The Myth of the Chemical Cure: A Critique of Psychiatric Drug Treatment” by Joanna Moncrieff and “Side Effects: a Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial” by Alison…
Info Document Actions Print this Psychiatric drugs administered along with other prescriptions (psychiatric polypharmacy) often leads to fatal results. Libby Zion, whose premature demise resulted from ingesting a prescription cocktail, was administered an anti-depressant and a painkiller, both of which targeted the 18 year old college student’s central nervous system. Such deaths and related polypharmacy…
Info An Investigation by Protection & Advocacy, Inc. into deaths related to the combined use of multiple psychiatric medications. The administration of aggressive polypharmaceutical regimens in these deaths, according to the agency, was not supported by the clinical presentation of the patients, nor by the medical literature. The report, released in June, 2004, concluded that…
Info Document Actions Print this This letter to the editor of a medical magazine by a Harvard professor of neurology warns that neuroleptic drugs are “grossly over-prescribed and overused.” “Adverse effects of anti-psychotics are ‘tip of the iceberg’” Date Published: Feb 21, 2006 01:00 AM Author: Louis R. Caplan, MD Source: Neurology: Volume 6(4) 21…
Info A USA jury delivered a major victory to a woman harmed by a psychiatric drug-induced condition known as tardive dyskinesia (TD). 16 October 2005 The family of psychiatric drugs called neuroleptics — sometimes known as anti-psychotics — can cause TD which is a kind of brain damage that can involve persistent and often permanent…