Astonishing, poor psychiatric treatment of Australian veterans
Australian veterans subjected to potentially debilitating psych and other drug cocktails. It is not known what the complete combined side effects of these are.
Overtreatment
Multiple, concurrent psychotropics prescribed for children increasing in the USA
A recent study of almost 127,000 youths who were subject to Medicaid from a single US state found from 2015 to 2020 the rate of psychotropic polypharmacy had increased to 4.6% – affecting more than 5,800 individuals.
Rethinking Antidepressant Medications for Children and Adolescents: Safety and Efficacy
If we followed science and safety, antidepressant drugs for anyone under the age of 24 would have never been approved.
Saving normal with Allen Frances, MD.
An Insider’s Revolt against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life
0. The really simple story of psychiatry
The real story of psychiatry No causes, no cures This is an examination of a subject that began around 150 years ago and promoted itself… Read More »0. The really simple story of psychiatry
The Myth of Low-Serotonin & Antidepressants
Dr. Mark Horowitz, MBBS PhD is a training psychiatrist and Clinical Research Fellow in Psychiatry North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT) and an Honorary… Read More »The Myth of Low-Serotonin & Antidepressants
More and more off-label, criminal use of antipsychotics
Antipsychotic use is dramatically increasing and beyond psychosis symptoms The use of antipsychotics is rapidly increasing and most of it is ‘off-label’, non-approved use.
Psychiatry’s credibility – Interview with Bruce Levine
Author and clinical psychologist Bruce Levine sits down with Open Paradigm to discuss society’s relationship to drugs, psychiatry’s increasing credibility issue, and the cultural response… Read More »Psychiatry’s credibility – Interview with Bruce Levine
The ‘extreme’ side-effects of antidepressants
BBC News. 19 October 2016. People who say their lives have been ruined by commonly prescribed antidepressants, known as SSRIs, are taking their case to… Read More »The ‘extreme’ side-effects of antidepressants
Psychiatry defends 30 years of lies about depression
For more than 30 years, psychiatry has been complicit with pharmaceutical company marketing in forwarding the largest fraud in the history of medicine: the lie of the ‘chemical imbalance’ theory of depression.
More on misuse of antipsychotics
The Washington Post report found that government attempts to ban to indiscriminate use of antipsychotics for elderly dementia patients had resulted in their use being replaced by anticonvulsant medications that could be used for the treatment of epilepsy.
What’s gone wrong with Australia’s youth mental health?
With youth suicide rates rising from the mid 2000s and astonishing increases in psychiatric drugs being prescribed, where have things gone wrong with the handling of youth mental health?