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A Call for Comfort Brought the Police Instead. Now the Solution Is in Danger
From KFF Health News: "Overcome by worries, Lynette Isbell dialed a mental health hotline in...
NY Times Finally Figures out ADHD Critics May be Onto Something
From The New York Times: "From 2012 to 2022, the total number of prescriptions for...
Kaine & Banks Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Support Mental Health Care and Substance Use Disorder Recovery
"Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Jim Banks (R-IN), members of the Senate Health,...
Unshrunk: A Memoir That Upsets the NYT and Which Freethinkers Will Love
Bruce E Levine writes a rebuttal to the New York Times review of Laura Delano's...
Doctors Didn’t Warn ‘Deviant Sexual Behaviour’ was Side Effect of Restless Legs Syndrome Drug
From The Independent. "Patients who were prescribed drugs for restless legs syndrome (RLS) have said...
Weight Loss Drugs: 82 Deaths Linked to Adverse Reactions, UK Data Show
From The BMJ. "Data submitted to the UK drugs regulator show a total of 82...
The Number of People With Chronic Conditions is Soaring. Are we Less Healthy Than we Used to be – or Overdiagnosing Illness?
From The Guardian. "I have been a doctor for more than 30 years and a neurologist...
Antidepressants May Hasten Decline From Dementia, Study Says
From CNN. Doctors often use antidepressants to manage the depression, anxiety and agitation that accompanies a...
Lindsay Clancy, Who Killed Her Three Children, Was on Three Antidepressants
From The Boston Globe.
"A hearing is scheduled in Plymouth Superior Court Friday where Lindsay Clancy...
Illegal Fraud is the Norm for Psychiatric Commitment
Rob Wipond reports on more investigations that reveal systemic abuses of patients’ rights.
New Book by Courageous Psychiatrist about Her Profession’s Most Damaging Falsehood
Writing in CounterPunch, Bruce Levine reviews Joanna Moncrieff's new book Chemically Imbalanced.
Peter Gøtzsche’s Video Interviews on Psychiatry
Here are recent interviews by Peter Gøtzsche on his site Broken Medical Science. including a recent...
Coroner Issues Warning About Antidepressants After Suicide of Royal’s Husband
A coroner has issued a warning about the effects of antidepressants prescribed by a Buckingham Palace doctor to the son-in-law of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent before his suicide.
Video: Origins of Mental Disturbance in a ‘Normal’ Family – Like Mine – Peter Sterling
ABSMC Psychiatry Grand Rounds presentation by Neuroscientist Peter Sterling, PhD on December 2, 2024. In...
Pollution Exposure Linked to Mental Health Hospital Admissions, Says Study
From The Guardian: Exposure to air pollution is linked to an increased risk of hospital admission...
Laura Van Tosh on the Viva La Evolution podcast
VIVA LA EVOLUTION is a podcast about personal and organizational recovery and resilience. In this...
Husband of UK Royal Took own Life After ‘Adverse Effects of Medication’
From The Guardian: The son-in-law of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent killed himself after suffering...
We Should #DropTheDisorder Because….
Allies of adisorder4everyone.com share their reasons why we should "Drop the disorder!" in a promotional video for the AD4E annual online festival on Friday, November 8.
Will Denial Make DSM’s Validity Problem Go Away?
The Psychiatric Times has been hosting a point/counterpoint regarding the validity of DSM diagnoses, which...
The Drug-based Approach to Mental Illness Has Failed
Science writer John Horgan interviews Robert Whitaker about his book Anatomy of an Epidemic, the...
Billions of Dollars Later, Neuroscientists Still Struggling to Address Mental Health Crisis
From Vox: It’s possible that some of the best mental health care lies outside Western psychiatry altogether.
Scores of Papers by Top NIH Neuroscientist Eliezer Masliah Fall Under Suspicion
From Science: The questionable data implicates many studies that underpin the development and testing of experimental Alzheimer's and Parkinson's drugs.
Capitalism Is Driven by Mental Illness
Psychedelics are useful not for the hallucinations they provide, but for the hallucinations they dispel.
Involuntary Care Doesn’t Work. What BC Should Do Instead
From The Tyee: An evidence-based approach clearly shows that the reliance on detention, force and coercion over the past two decades has not led to better outcomes.
Beyond Pharmacare
From Briarpatch Magazine: Prisoner advocates and family members of institutionalized people depict the overprescribing epidemic as attempts to “control behaviour” turning people into “zombies.”
