Author Archives: cchrstl

The Psychiatric Abuse of the Elderly Click on the picture to find out about the disastrous legacy of the widespread introduction of psychiatric treatment into the care of the elderly over the last few decades. Click here to download and read … Continue reading →

Psychiatric Labeling “Confirmation bias” is a term used to describe the tendency for people to favor information that confirms their preconceptions regardless of whether the information is true. As a result, people may gather evidence and recall information from memory selectively, and … Continue reading →

Forest Labs’ CEO Faces Exile The Forest Laboratories CEO, Howard Solomon, who built his company’s fortune on the antidepressants Celexa and Lexapro, faces exile from the health-care industry. On Apr. 12, Solomon learned that the Office of Inspector General (OIG) … Continue reading →

Jared Loughner pleaded not guilty to 49 charges in the January 8 shooting that left six people dead and 13 wounded, including Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona. He has been at the Springfield, Missouri federal prison since May 27 after … Continue reading →

The Chantix Fraud A study published July 4, 2011 in the Canadian Medical Association Journal concluded that smokers who take Chantix, a smoking cessation drug, could increase their risk of heart problems. The study found that there are “safety concerns … Continue reading →

How Big Pharma got Americans hooked on anti-psychotic drugs A recent opinion article in Al Jazeera English is an interesting read (“Mass psychosis in the US” by James Ridgeway, a senior Washington correspondent with Mother Jones Magazine.) The article starts with, “Has America … Continue reading →

Federal Court Rules Against Loughner’s Forced Medication Jared Lee Loughner — who was accused of shooting Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 more people in Tucson, Ariz., in January — can continue to reject psychotropic drug treatment, a federal appeals court … Continue reading →

An article in The Economist (25 June 2011, “Mass observation”) discussing the 2006 health care reform legislation in Massachusetts, and on which the current federal health care legislation was based in part, makes the point that, although the percent of … Continue reading →

An article in Science News Daily (April 11, 2011, “Pharmacogenetics Testing Offers Way to Reduce Deaths from Drug Toxicity”) discusses the field of pharmacogenetics (also called pharmacogenomics,) the study of an individual’s variation in DNA sequence related to drug response. … Continue reading →

Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, June 30, 2011 http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2011/June/11-crm-871.html WASHINGTON – A Miami-area psychiatrist pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Miami for his part in a fraud scheme that resulted in the … Continue reading →