Psychiatric Drugs – A New Vision for Mental Health

This Teen Was Prescribed 10 Psychiatric Drugs. She’s Not Alone

Author: Editorial 29th August 2022 0 Comments

“Increasingly, anxious and depressed teens are using multiple, powerful psychiatric drugs, many of them untested in adolescents or for use in tandem.” This article by Matt Richtel has been published in the New York Times. It begins: “One morning in the…
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antidepressants, children and adolescents, Matt Richtel, New York Times, pharmaceutical industry, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, Renae Smith

How Drugmakers Influence Our Beliefs About Mental Illness

Author: Editorial 1st July 2022 0 Comments

This article by Markham Heid has been published on the Medium website. It begins: “Nothing burns itself into memory quite like public humiliation. Even now, 20 years later, I can vividly recall the embarrassment I felt the day I tried —…
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Adriane Fugh-Berman, anxiety, Culture & Society, Markham Heid, Medium, pharmaceutical industry, Psychiatric Drugs, Social anxiety disorder

What Is the Importance of Nassir Ghaemi’s Conclusion that Psychiatric Drugs Do Not Provide a Long-term Benefit?

Author: Editorial 27th June 2022 0 Comments

“… [Nassir] Ghaemi, a professor of psychiatry at Tufts Medical School, concluded that psychiatric drugs, except for lithium, do not provide a long-term benefit and thus should mostly be prescribed for short-term relief of symptoms.“ This article by Robert Whitaker has…
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antidepressants, antipsychotics, depression, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, lithium, Mad in America, Nassir Ghaemi, placebo effect, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, schizophrenia

Just a pill? How psychiatry pathologises female experience

Author: Editorial 25th February 2022 0 Comments

This article , by Victoria Smith, has been published on The Critic magazine website. It begins: “Photos of ghost children decorated the walls of the adolescent psychiatric unit. ‘Patients from the olden days,’ staff would tell us. ‘They could have been…
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diagnostic labelling, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, The Critic, Victoria Smith, women

The Visual Illusion of Efficacy in Psychiatric Drug Trials

Author: Editorial 11th November 2021 0 Comments

This article by Robert Whitaker has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “Published reports of clinical trials of psychiatric drugs typically include a graphic showing the efficacy of the study drug in reducing symptoms of the disorder compared with…
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efficacy, Mad in America, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatric drugs trials, Robert Whitaker

Does Pain Always Need a Drug? — Navy Psychologist Mary Vieten, PhD, ABPP

Author: Editorial 8th October 2021 0 Comments

This short video clip, set within an American context, is an excerpt from the film Medicating Normal :

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emotional pain, Mary Vieten, Medicating Normal, pharmaceutical industry, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, videos

Abilify commercial: when do possible side-effects greatly outweigh supposed benefits?

Author: Editorial 29th September 2021 0 Comments

Check out this 90-second advert for an atypical antipsychotic (aripiprazole), touted here under the brand name Abilify as an “add-on” to antidepressant medication. Then ask the obvious question – the same one that applies to a great many prescribed psychiatric…
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Abilify, advert, aripiprazole, prescription drug side-effects, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, side effects, USA, videos

Psychiatric Drugs may Reduce Social and Emotional Capacities

Author: Editorial 15th September 2021 0 Comments

This article by Jenny Logan has been published on the Mad in America website. It begins: “While deficits in social cognition are often associated with and used to diagnose psychiatric disorders, new research suggests that the medications used to treat psychiatric…
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emotions, Jenny Logan, Mad in America, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, Research, social cognition, University College London, Zoe Haime

Psychiatric Medications Kill More Americans than Heroin

Author: Editorial 27th August 2021 0 Comments

“”In 2014, 10,574 people died of heroin overdose while 15,778 died from an overdose of psychiatric medications, nearly 50% more.” This article by Kenneth Anderson has been published on the American Addiction Centers website. It begins: “In 2014, 10,574 people died…
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addiction, American Addiction Centers, heroin, Kenneth Anderson, MEPS (Medical Expenditure Panel Survey), Polypharmacy, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, USA

Are Children and Adolescents Overprescribed Psychiatric Medications?

Author: Editorial 19th August 2021 0 Comments

“The psychiatric drugging of our children: A developing international crisis.” This article by Dr. John Read has been published in Psychology Today. It begins: “On August 13th [2021] several hundred people registered to take part in an online “town hall meeting,”…
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ADHD, Australia, autism, causality, children and adolescents, John Read, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, Psychology Today