This PSA from Citizens Commission on Human Rights is emotionally powerful and completely truthful. Click to view Candace PSA, which urges people to find out the facts about suicides and anti-depressants. So far approximately 63,000 people have committed suicide while on anti-depressants. These drugs CAUSE suicidal and homicidal ideation — that’s psych speak for creating […]
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The Mother’s Act is Dead!
Occasionally the good guys win big, and that happened yesterday when the US Senate killed S 3297, the Coburn Cloture Bill, which contained the Mother’s Act Bill and 36 unrelated measures. Sixty votes were needed to close debate and bring the bill to a final vote. It received only 52 votes — there were 40 […]
Oregon receives $3 Million in Bristol-Myers Squibb fraud settlement.
The Oregon State Department of Justice published this press release on July 16. This was a medicaid fraud settlement based on Bristol-Myers Squibb’s antipsychotic drug Abilify being used for kids and the elderly when it wasn’t approved by the FDA for that, yet it was aggressively marketed for those uses, including bribes paid to psychiatrists […]
States receive $449 Million from Bristol-Myers Squibb Settlement
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the great State of Georgia is getting about $12.1 Million as its share of the $449 Million settlement from Bristol-Myers Squibb in the federal government’s (and 43 states’) suits against the company for fraudulent marketing and pricing of prescription drugs for Medicaid. Payments went out Tuesday for the settlement, which […]
Side Effects of Antidepressant Drugs & Anti-psychotic Drugs
There’s a new blog on the Side Effects of Antidepressant & Anti-psychotic drugs. Big Pharma isn’t going to like this one, as it tells the horror stories of people who have lost relatives through the side effects of the antidepressant and anti-psychotic drugs which have made the drug companies so rich. In particular there’s a […]
Human Rights day
Today is offically “blog about human rights day”, and this is my official post about Human Rights. Even though this day is demarcated to be for this subject, I do not blog about human rights only on this day. You’ll find a lot of posts in this blog throughout the year, on the subject of […]
APA Convention in Washington DC
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) holds a convention every year where they sometimes vote on whether to make up a new mental illness, such as ADD or ADHD or Math Disorder or similar nuttiness. Every year for the last 40 some years, my friends at Citizen’s Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), the only effective group […]
Generation Rx
This trailer for a new movie, called “Generation Rx” is generating some buzz. The movie itself has already garnered some great reviews. Paul Haggis called the film “A powerful and often chilling eye opener. The stories continue to haunt me.” The film will be released within the next few months, if all goes well in […]
Prescription for Violence – psych drugs causing school shootings
A new hard-hitting anti-psych video from CCHR, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, of which I’ve been a member since 1972, highlights the firm link between school shootings and the drugs that the shooters were on. Drugs like Ritalin and Prozac ARE the reason these school shootings are taking place. These drugs need to be […]
BBC psychiatrist Tonmoy Sharma is found guilty of serious professional misconduct….
This article from London’s Daily Telegraph reports that a psychiatrist often picked by the BBC as a talking head Tonmoy Sharma is being struck off the medical register for fraud and misconduct, including pretending to be a PhD when he wasn’t. After a ten-month hearing process, he was found guilty of “serious professional misconduct”. He […]