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Drugging Kids With No Verifiable Disease

April 20th, 2009. By Evelyn Pringle

Psychiatry’s marketing strategy is to invent diagnoses out of thin air and call them diseases as an excuse to prescribe drugs, according to Dr Fred Baughman, author of The ADHD Fraud. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Abilify, Adderall, ADHD, bipolar disorder, Emslie, Risperdal, Seroquel, Zyprexa
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NAMI – Drug Money Laundering is Illegal

April 18th, 2009. By Evelyn Pringle

The National Alliance for Mental Illness is the latest member of the psycho-pharmaceutical cartel whose Big Pharma money trail is under investigation by the US Senate Finance Committee, with Iowa’s Republican Senator Chuck Grassley leading the charge. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Chantix, Cymbalta, Lilly, MHA, NAMI, Pfizer, Viagra, Zoloft, Zyprexa
Posted in Emerging Issues | 22 Comments »

Rally in Denver for Ten Year Anniversary of Columbine

April 14th, 2009. By Evelyn Pringle

Ten years ago this month the violence and suicide caused by SSRI antidepressants gained international recognition in headlines all over the world when it became known that one of the teen shooters at the Columbine massacre, Eric Harris, had taken Zoloft in the past and was on Luvox at the time of the murder-suicide spree. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Columbine, GlaxoSmithKline, Luvox, paxil, Prozac, suicide, Zoloft
Posted in Emerging Issues | 3 Comments »

Psychotic in America

April 13th, 2009. By Evelyn Pringle

Last week, an FDA Advisory Committee voted against the approval of the atypical antipsychotic, Seroquel, to treat General Anxiety Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder in adults because the benefits of the drug for those indications did not outweigh the risks. Read the rest of this entry »

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Another Shrink Bites The Dust

April 9th, 2009. By Evelyn Pringle

Brown University’s Martin Keller is the latest chairman of psychiatry to be replaced since an on-going investigation led by Iowa Republican, Senator Charles Grassley, on behalf of the US Senate Finance Committee revealed the millions of dollars in undisclosed payments flowing between psychiatric drug makers and “key opinion leaders” in the field of child psychiatry. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Drugs/Medical | 6 Comments »