July 24, 2008
Antidepressants, Antipsychotic, Big Pharma, FDA, Fraud, News, Prozac, Psychiatrist, Psychiatry, Risperdal, Seroquel, Zoloft, Zyprexa
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By Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet
Posted on July 23, 2008, Printed on July 24, 2008
American psychiatry has been rocked by Congress. Congressional investigators first exposed the financial relationships between high-profile psychiatrists and drug companies. “But now the profession itself is under attack in Congress,” reported the New York Times on July 12, 2008.
Specifically under attack is psychiatry’s premier professional organization, the American Psychiatric Association. The New York Times stated, “In 2006, the latest year for which numbers are available, the drug industry accounted for about 30 percent of the association’s $62.5 million in financing. About half of that money went to drug advertisements in psychiatric journals and exhibits at the annual meeting, and the other half to sponsor fellowships, conferences and industry symposiums at the annual meeting.”
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June 2, 2008
Antidepressants, Antipsychotic, Anxiety, Bereavement, Big Pharma, GlaxoSmithkline, News, Prozac, Psychiatry, Psychotropic drugs, Schizophrenia
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For almost every behavioural issue, these days there’s a medicine to treat it
Roger Dobson reports
Tuesday, 3 June 2008
Spending too much time on the internet? Worried about a low sex drive, shyness or lack of social skills? Or do you lose your temper too easily, blush too readily or spend too much time and money shopping?
Time was when such behaviours might have been regarded as individual differences, or put down to lack of self control and restraint. But not any more. Increasing numbers of behavioural conditions are being treated with drug therapy. Bereavement issues, blushing, low sex drive, high sex drive, sex addiction, lack of orgasm, gambling, fear of public speaking, stealing, domestic violence and phobias are all being targeted with drugs that are either in clinical trials or already available.
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April 5, 2008
Big Pharma, Human rights, Prozac, Psychiatrist, Psychiatry, Ritalin, Videos
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In 1997, CCHR hosted a hearing on the dangers of psychiatric drugs. This is actual footage, broadcast live at the time.
January 13, 2008
Big Pharma, FDA, Prozac
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May 30, 1991:
“Prozac (fluoxetine) has had the highest number of adverse event reports submitted to the FDA National Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting System database. The database dates back to 1969.”
Alan Gelberg, Acting Chief, Surveillance and Data Processing Branch, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER).
September 20, 1991:
The Food and Drug Administration Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee Hearing
