Tag Archives: antipsychotic

Risky Business of Sleep Drugs

Risky Business of Sleep Drugs After reading about the dangers of sleeping pills in the February 2016 edition of Consumer Reports magazine, we thought you might like to know something about that. Some psychotropic drugs are prescribed as sleeping pills. Trazodone, … Continue reading

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Another Day Another Anti-depressant (Again)

Another Day Another Anti-depressant (Again) On July 10, 2015, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Rexulti (brexpiprazole, an atypical antipsychotic) tablets to treat adults with so-called schizophrenia and as an add-on treatment to an antidepressant medication to treat adults with … Continue reading

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The Name Game, Latuda

The Name Game, Latuda Latuda, Latuda, bo-buda Banana-fana-fo-fuda Fee-fi-mo-muda Latuda One might as well be talking gibberish, since Latuda does not make any sense. Unless you consider that it makes a lot of cents. We recently saw a commercial on … Continue reading

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Huffington Post Admits Mental Disorders Are Not Medical Conditions

Huffington Post Admits Mental Disorders Are Not Medical Conditions A leading psychiatrist featured in the Huffington Post just admitted what CCHR has said for decades — mental disorders are not medical conditions. Allen Frances, professor emeritus at Duke University and … Continue reading

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Psychiatric Drug Users Experience Zombie-like State

Psychiatric Drug Users Experience Zombie-like State A recent research study published in the International Journal of Mental Health Nursing [“Living with antipsychotic medication side-effects: The experience of Australian mental health consumers” DOI: 10.1111/inm.12110] reported that “Each participant reported between six … Continue reading

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Feds Pay for Drug Fraud

Feds Pay for Drug Fraud 92 Percent of Foster Care, Poor Kids Prescribed Antipsychotics Get Them for Unaccepted Uses This Huffington Post article on April 30, 2015 exposes the fact that poor and foster care kids covered by Medicaid are … Continue reading

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Consumer Reports Weighs in on Harmful Psych Drugs

Consumer Reports Weighs in on Harmful Psych Drugs The Consumer Reports magazine of February 2015 has this to say about harmful psych drugs (page 8): “Did You know that forms you sign when you or a relative enter a medical … Continue reading

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Terrorism and Torture, Oh My!

Terrorism and Torture, Oh My! The United States government paid two military psychologists $80 million to develop torture tactics that were used against suspected terrorists in the wake of the September 11 attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade … Continue reading

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Former Top Industry Insider Reveals Big Pharma Secrets

Former Top Industry Insider Reveals Big Pharma Secrets [From American Free Press Newspaper] “The former managing director of drug giant Eli Lilly and Company in Sweden continues to blow the whistle on the business practices of the pharmaceutical industry, scoring … Continue reading

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The Deadliest Enemy

The Deadliest Enemy is the one you never suspect “The use of psychotropic drugs, especially combined use of antipsychotic and antidepressant drugs, is strongly associated with an increased risk of SCD [Sudden Cardiac Death].” —European Heart Journal “Prior to the … Continue reading

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