Category Archives: Press Releases

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 →

“A federal judge on Wednesday June 29 refused to order prison officials to stop forcibly medicating Arizona shooting suspect Jared Loughner with anti-psychotic drugs. “U.S. District Judge Larry Burns rejected a request by defense attorneys for Loughner, 22, to halt … Continue reading →

The Illusions of Psychiatry by Marcia Angell in the New York Review of Books This is a seriously great article exposing all the inner workings of psychiatry’s billing bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), including the … Continue reading →

Judy Clarke, defense attorney for the Tucson shooter Jared Lee Loughner, wrote in a court filing the first week of June that giving Loughner psychiatric drugs could have “serious and possibly permanent side effects.” [Quote from the Nevada Missouri Herald-Tribune, June … Continue reading →