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2013
January 24/13 — Top psychiatrist: [Psychotropic] meds behind school massacres.
January 22/13 — Benzodiazépines: une overdose française (Benzodiazepines: a French overdose [Google's English translation]).
January 20/13 — Burlington's HowardCenter tries a new approach to treating mental illness: more talking, fewer meds.
January 14/13 — Zolpidem Containing Products: Drug Safety Communication — FDA Requires Lower Recommended Doses (including Ambien, Ambien CR, Edluar, and Zolpimist) added to U.S. FDA Drug Advisories page.
January 3/13 — Antidepressants to treat grief? Psychiatry panelists with ties to drug industry say yes.
2012
December 20/12 — Fanapt hoax hides real connection between shooters and SSRI drugs.
December 20/12 — The antipsychotic prescribed to Connecticut shooter Adam Lanza has a troubled history all its own.
December 16/12 — Still relevant — a 2007 call for an investigation of the link between mass shootings and psychiatric drugs.
December 5/12 — Paxil lawsuit approved as class action by B.C. judge.
December 4/12 — Long-term use of some antipsychotics not warranted in older adults: study.
November 26/12 — Grapefruit can interact with many drugs (including certain anti-psychotic and pain medicines) to cause severe effects or death: study.
November 25/12 — New PMAG “benzo help” blog: Benzodiazepine and Sleeping Pill Addiction, Tapering & Recovery.
November 12/12 — Forgetfulness in seniors tied to anxiety and insomnia drugs.
November 12/12 — Prescription opioid deaths as high as drunk driving deaths, say B.C. officials.
November 5/12 — Depression and antidepressants in Australia and beyond — a critical public health analysis. (PDF–2.69 MB)
October 31/12 — Taking SSRI antidepressants during pregnancy: considerations and risks.
October 29/12 — Health Canada brushes off reports of serious side effects.
October 28/12 — Tony Scott suicide & anti-depressants: prescription drugs found in Top Gun director's system.
October 10/12 — Problems discontinuing Cymbalta.
October 10/12 — Psychiatry — and medicine in general — has a dangerously close relationship with the pharmaceutical industry.
October 7/12 — Drug giants fined $11bn for criminal wrongdoing — fines are not enough to reform drug industry, warn lawyers.
October 3/12 — Drug Safety Initiative: Potentially Inappropriate Medications in Seniors — a CME guide designed for family physicians, geriatricians, and other health care professionals who care for older adults.
October 2/12 — Addicted to Valium.
September 30/12 — Valium’s contribution to our new normal.
September 25/12 — The drugs don't work: a modern medical scandal.
August 30/12 — Doctor Who? The corporations behind WebMD's friendly, free advice.
August 28/12 — Overtreatment is taking a harmful toll.
August 25/12 — A systematic review of comparative efficacy of treatments and controls for depression.
August 20/12 — Andrew Scull on All We Have to Fear: Psychiatry's Transformation of Natural Anxieties into Mental Disorders.
August 9/12 — Advertising dollars predict drug prescription rates.
August 8/12 — Interview with Robert Whitaker…the myth of chemical imbalances of the brain.
August 3/12 — Is Anxiety Overdiagnosed?
July 18/12 — The health cost of a good night's sleep (CBC audio clip).
July 17/12 — FDA maintained an 'enemies list' to quell critics.
July 13/12 — The big sleep: Canada's dangerous love affair with tranquillizers.
July 12/12 — 3 antidepressants found in autopsy of Mary Kennedy.
July 12/12 — Happiness is being a loser.
July 9/12 — BC Liberal government caves into drug industry and fires drug safety watchdog organization.
July 6/12 — New video resource: 30% of New York ER overdose deaths tied to Benzodiazepine Xanax (the eleventh most prescribed drug in the USA).
July 6/12 — Away from a biomedical model for handling mental health issues.
May 30/12 — Nursing homes pushed to reduce antipsychotic drug use by 15 percent this year.
May 11/12 — Pregnant women beware: "don't worry, be happy" slogan could harm your baby.
May 11/12 — Antipsychotic use and myocardial infarction in older patients with treated dementia.
May 4/12 — Psychiatry's bible, the DSM, is doing more harm than good.
April 10/12 — Taking SSRI antidepressants during pregnancy: considerations and risks.
March 15/12 — La molécule qui rend fou (French video — The molecule that [drives them] crazy is an Google translation into English of the synopsis).
March 13/12 — Afghanistan massacre by U.S. sergeant reveals epidemic of psychiatric drugging of soldiers.
March 13/12 — New worries about sleeping pills.
March 6/12 — Psychiatric adverse reactions with statins, fibrates and ezetimibe implications for the use of lipid-lowering agents.
February 29/12 — Study: Popular sleeping pill Ambien linked to increased death rate. (BMJ Abstract)
February 22/12 — Mass-withdrawal disaster feared as OxyContin funding pulled.
February 21/12 — Psychiatric 'bible' may classify the bereaved as mentally ill: Journal.
February 13/12 — Risperdal on trial, Texas style.
February 13/12 — Prevention of depression and anxiety.
February 3/12 — Celexa medication guide (PDF–44KB). The companies know all about the adverse drug reactions.
February 1/12 — Searching for side effects.
January 22/12 — Dr. David Healy's Data Based Medicine blog added to our Self-Help Resources.
January 17/12 — 4 creepy ways big pharma peddles its drugs.
January 17/12 — Pharmawatch Canada blog added to our Self-Help Resources.
January 12/12 — Dr. Heather Ashton & Panel: Coming off medication including benzodiazepines, SSRI and similar antidepressants [Video].
January 12/12 — Drugs associated with more suicidal ideations are also associated with more suicide attempts.
January 9/12 — Texas state attorney general sues drug companies — misled health officials about drug's efficacy, risk, cost-effectiveness.
January 7/12 — 7 Reasons America's Mental Health Industry Is a Threat to Our Sanity.
January 2/12 — Health Care Renewal blog added to our Self-Help Resources.
2011
December 22/11 — Recent Speech given by Dr. Heather Ashton, developer of the Ashton Protocol for withdrawal from benzodiazepines to a Benzodiazepine Support Group in Bradford, England. (PDF–118KB)
December 7/11 — Seven diseases Big Pharma hopes you get in 2012.
December 5/11 — ABC News video: Too many meds for foster kids? Foster children are given mind-altering drugs at up to 13 times the rate of other children.
November 22/11 — Baby deaths spark fears over antidepressants.
— CBC video: Deaths spark fears.
November 22/11 — CBC video: The auditor general says Health Canada needs to be more transparent and act more quickly when flags are raised about the drugs Canadians take.
November 21/11 — Drugs used for psychotics go to youths in foster care.
November 17/11 — U.S. study: Use of psychiatric drugs spreads.
November 8/11 — YouTube Video: Robert Whitaker — Rethinking psychiatric care.
November 7/11 — Brain damage from Benzodiazepines: The troubling facts, risks, and history of minor tranquilizers.
October 29/11 — CDC: Antidepressant use skyrockets 400% in past 20 years.
October 1/11 — "The Myth of Mental Illness" by Thomas Szasz
September 27/11 — How do patients weigh the risks of taking a prescription drug?
September 20/11 — Prescription drug deaths now outnumber traffic fatalities in the US
September 20/11 — Baby deaths spark fears over antidepressants
September 17/11 — Benzodiazepines likely to figure in a singer's death as in so many others!
September 1/11 — Is prenatal SSRI exposure linked to autism spectrum disorders in children?
August 29/11 — Celexa (citalopram hydrobromide): Drug Safety Communication — Abnormal heart rhythms associated with high doses
August 27/11 — Is your mum on drugs?
August 15/11 — Life addicted to prescription drugs
August 3/11 — Antipsychotic wrongly marketed to kids
August 2/11 — Antipsychotics to treat post traumatic stress among returning soldiers found ineffective
July 21/11 — Patients who use antidepressants more likely to relapse
July 18/11 — Has America become a nation of psychotics? You'd certainly think so, based on the medications we're taking
July 17/11 — The illusions of psychiatry (part 2 of a series).
July 12/11 — Children born to mothers who took Valproate products while pregnant may have impaired cognitive development
July 4/11 — Now antidepressant-induced chronic depression has a name: Tardive Dysphoria
July 2/11 — The epidemic of mental illness: Why? (part 1 of a series).
June 29/11 — Psychiatric drug promotion and the politics of neoliberalism
June 22/11 — "Neurontin killed our husbands, we believe"
June 22/11 — Fractured health-care system sets scene for drug deaths
June 20/11 — Judge chastises Johnson & Johnson over Risperdal lies and concealing evidence
April 8/11 — Breast-cancer link to Paxil drug category found in antidepressant research
March 22/11 — Health Canada "silent" on drug safety decisions
March 16/11 — Antidepressants tied to lactation problems
March 8/11 — Talk doesn't pay, so psychiatry turns instead to drug therapy
February 25/11 — Are antidepressants better than a placebo?
February 22/11 — Antipsychotic drugs: FDA class labeling change — treatment during pregnancy and potential risk to newborns
February 4/11 — Rapidly increasing criminal and civil monetary penalties against the pharmaceutical industry: 1991 to 2010 — view entire report as a PDF
January 13/11 — Criminal fraud by the drug companies
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2010
December 17/10 — Drug makers are paying big settlements
December 15/10 — B.C.'s drug assessments taking the wrong path.
December 7/10 — Selling bipolar disorder: crazy-making pharma expands definitions
December 7/10 — Is psychiatry for sale?
December 5/10 — Check on benzodiazepine-use must be done, say MPs.
November 26/10 —
Times Colonist Editorial: Liberals cave to Big Pharma.
November 25/10 —
Critics decry change in drug-approval process: Government abolishing drug review body, allowing drug makers four separate chances to pitch their products.
November 17/10 —
America's mental illness epidemic: It turns out that the drugs are the problem.
November 15/10 —
Pharmaceutical scandal in Britain sheds disturbing new light on benzodiazepines.
November 10/10 — Drugs linked to brain damage 30 years ago.
November 10/10 —
Covered up evidence from medical research files on brain damage caused by benzodiazepines (PDF–3.87MB)
November 10/10 —
Public information as a marketing tool: promotion of diseases and medicines (PDF–2.28MB) More…
November 10/10 —
Chemical cosh drugs to be cut by two thirds.
November 10/10 —
Mad in America: History, science, and the treatment of psychiatric disorders — a Psychology Today blog.
November 10/10 —
Prescrire in English provides factual information on adverse drug reactions and drug safety.
November 10/10 —
Is your mom on drugs? — a guide for family members, caregivers and primary care providers.
October 23/10 —
J&J told to pay $257.7 million over Risperdal marketing tactics
October 19/10 —
Side effects may include lawsuits
October 18/10 —
Lies, damned lies, and medical science
October 6/10 —
Antipsychotic and Benzodiazepine use among nursing home residents: findings from the 2004 National Nursing Home Survey
September 17/10 —
Are antidepressants safe in pregnancy? A focus on SSRIs
September 16/10 —
The secret lives of big pharma's "thought leaders"
September 16/10 —
Forest, maker of Celexa, to pay more than $313 million to settle marketing case
September 7/10 —
Taking SSRI antidepressants during pregnancy: considerations and risks (PDF–62KB)
September 7/10 —
Child's ordeal shows risks of psychosis drugs for young
September 7/10 —
Informed consent and shared decision-making: a requirement to disclose to patients off-label prescriptions (PDF available for download — 93KB)
May 4/10 —
Big Pharma, Bad Medicine: How corporate dollars corrupt research and education
April 29/10 —
Getting people on antidepressants early in life makes them loyal customers forever
April 29/10 —
Top 25 psychiatric prescriptions for 2009
April 26/10 —
Exercise helps fight anxiety, depression
April 26/10 —
The sickening of society (PDF–57KB)
April 22/10 —
Depression medication: patients report 20 times more side effects than recorded in charts
April 17/10 —
8 invented diseases big pharma is banking on
April 8/10 —
Links between pesticide exposure and mental health (PDF–35KB)
April 8/10 —
Mental health providers should prescribe exercise more often for depression, anxiety, research suggests
April 8/10 —
blog, Beyond Meds — Alternatives to Psychiatry, added. More…
April 8/10 —
Extracts from Manufacturing Depression by Gary Greenberg
March 22/10 —
When drug makers' profits outweigh penalties
March 18/10 —
The long-term course of unmedicated depression
March 18/10 —
Medicating the military
March 15/10 —
The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth, a book by Irving Kirsch
March 15/10 —
Some anti-depressant drugs associated with increased chance of developing cataracts: Study
March 8/10 —
Seroquel cocktail and military deaths
March 6/10 —
Direct patient reporting of adverse drug reactions: a twelve-country survey & literature review (PDF–195KB)
March 6/10 —
Emotional side-effects of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (Abstract)
February 10/10 —
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and breast cancer mortality in women receiving tamoxifen
February 8/10 —
Too much health care: We can't afford life's creeping medicalization
February 4/10 —
The depressing news about antidepressants: no more effective than a placebo … may be worse
January 31/10 —
Fattened by pills: Overprescribing of psychiatric drugs contributing to obesity
January 22/10 —
How the US exports its mental illnesses
January 22/10 —
Drugmaker got kickbacks for nursing home patients
January 13/10 —
Monitoring of high-risk medications unchanged despite FDA warnings
2009
December 30/09 —
Pfizer eyes Canada — World's biggest drug maker sets its sights on Canadian healthcare
December 17/09 —
Anti-depressants "up stroke risk"
December 14/09 —
Glaxo Said to have paid $1 billion in Paxil suits (update2)
December 14/09 —
Poor children likelier to get antipsychotics
December 8/09 —
Deaths related to narcotic pain relievers have doubled since 1991: study
December 4/09 —
Promotional spending for prescription drugs $20.5 billion in 2008 (PDF–592KB)
November 28/09 —
Big pharma beaten
November 19/09 —
Birth defects caused by medications avoidable: study
November 19/09 —
Pediatric Zyprexa brochures embarrass British health service
November 16/09 —
Pfizer VP appointment to Canadian Institutes of Health Research a clear conflict of interest
November 13/09 —
Chemical restraints killing dementia patients
November 13/09 —
US Senator wants Pentagon to review antidepressants
November 11/09 —
Big pharma's crime spree: Pfizer broke the law by promoting drugs for unapproved uses
November 11/09 —
Pregnant women risk early delivery from using psychiatric medication
October 29/09 —
Compromised care: psychotropic drugs given to nursing home patients without cause
October 29/09 —
Weight gain associated with antipsychotic drugs
October 29/09 —
Effectiveness of antidepressants: an evidence myth constructed from a thousand randomized trials?
October 27/09 —
Bleak Britain: anti-depressant prescriptions soar even though illness declines
October 27/09 —
SSRIs & Withdrawal / Dependence
October 22/09 —
3/4 of the donations to the largest mental health organization in the US come from drug companies
October 20/09 — Pharmalot blog added blog added to our Self-Help Resources.
October 15/09 — Do depressed people really have a chemical imbalance in the brain?
October 15/09 — The Cochrane Library added to our Self-Help Resources.
October 13/09 — Paxil on trial — read the court transcripts
October 13/09 — Canadian Adverse Reaction Newsletter added to our Self-Help Resources.
October 12/09 — GSK is sued in US over alleged link of paroxetine to birth defects
October 9/09 — Insomnia drugs could lead to sleepwalking
October 9/09 — Drug Product Database Online Query — more complete descriptions of drugs, their use, contraindications and potential risks
October 9/09 — Drugs associated with more suicidal ideations are also associated with more suicide attempts (PDF–226KB)
October 1/09 — The tide is turning against pharmaceutical ads (.DOC — 837KB)
September 22/09 — Pharma's clout weakens care
September 22/09 — Document details plan to promote costly drug
September 22/09 — Glaxo linked birth defect of fetus to Paxil, ex-executive says
August 10/09 — Feds hit Pfizer with a $2.3 billion fine
August 10/09 — Doped and duped
August 10/09 — Women given antidepressant that can cause birth defects
August 10/09 — Antidepressants once seen as miracle drugs: now risks are becoming evident
July 9/09 — Increase in use of antipsychotic drugs among Canadian seniors
July 8/09 — Interpreting antidepressant clinical trials
July 8/09 — Antidepressant use linked to bone loss
July 2/09 — Antipsychotic drug use spiralling in kids, research says
June 17/09 — Sudden death and use of stimulant medications in youths
June 8/09 — Prescription Opiate — "Talk Tape" on CBC's The Current (scroll down the page to Pt 2: Prescription Opiate
).
June 8/09 — Meltdown in the drug industry
June 8/09 — APA 2009: atypical antipsychotics linked to rapid, adverse metabolic changes in children
June 1/09 — Psychiatric Drugs Might Raise Cardiac Death Risk
May 28/09 — Legal loophole exposes Canadians to drug advertising banned in US: UBC research
A legal loophole is counteracting Canada's ban on direct-to-consumer drug advertising and has exposed Canadians to more than $90 million worth of ads, including those for drugs with life-threatening risks, according to a study by UBC researchers.
March 27/09 — Online age quiz is a window for drug makers
March 27/09 — Prescription sales rise by $1.2-billion, even as generics gain popularity
March 18/09 — A silenced drug study creates an uproar
March 6/09 — Important ruling — Patients in the US who have been harmed by drugs can continue to sue for damages!
February 6/09 — Metabolic monitoring in patients prescribed antipsychotics abysmal
January 29/09 — Death by Prescription: A Father Takes on His Daughter's Killer — the Multi-Billion Dollar Pharmaceutical Companies (book review)
January 23/09 — Eli Lilly to pay largest settlement in history over Zyprexa marketing tactics
January 4/09 — Alzheimer's drugs nearly double death risk in elderly: study
January 4/09 — Bitter Pill: A Portland doc flips on big pharma and reveals its "dirty little secret."
2008
November 27/08 — Proceedings from Adverse Reactions to Drugs: What is Our Responsibility? by Sara Bostock (PDF–32KB)
November 19/08 — Use of antipsychotics in children is criticized
November 18/08 — One-third of asthma cases not asthma: study
November 17/08 — The epidemic of overmedication
November 17/08 — Prescription drugs kill 300 percent more Americans than illegal drugs
November 15/08 — Big Bucks, Big Pharma: marketing disease and pushing drugs (YouTube video)
November 15/08 — Drugged-out seniors a prescription for disaster
October 3/08 — CanWest Global’s campaign to allow dangerous prescription drug advertising (YouTube video)
October 3/08 — Top psychiatrist failed to report drug income
September 26/08 — Antidepressants may harm male fertility
September 26/08 — B.C. Health minister won't prevent gifts going to doctors
September 21/08 — Secondary effects of antipsychotics: women at greater risk than men
September 18/08 — Behind the scenes of drug marketing: The "Wonder Drug" episode on The Hollowmen, an Australian TV show
September 16/08 — Nanaimo: prescription drug abuse grows
September 11/08 — Drugs and the elderly in Canadian nursing homes
September 11/08 — 2004 report states 5/6 elderly taking prescription drugs in the US
August 28/08 — Drug safety warnings ineffective in decreasing antipsychotic prescriptions for the elderly in Canada
August 26/08 — Stanford to limit drug maker financing
August 26/08 — Drug Companies and Schizophrenia: unbridled capitalism meets madness (PDF–324KB)
August 22/08 — Don't become a victim of medical marketing
August 15/08 — Ending the Love affair between big pharma and the medical profession
August 1/08 — Pill Pushers: pharmaceutical marketing in an overmedicated nation
July 31/08 — Trucker's Death uncovers drug in herbal remedy
July 12/08 — American Psychiatric Association Faces scrutiny for drug company ties
June 23/08 — The accuracy of psychiatric medication advertisements in medical journals
June 23/08 — Grassley probes Paxil suicide risk
June 21/08 — Britain's Child victims of the chemical Cosh
June 18/08 — Non drug treatments for attention deficit disorder gaining credibility
June 17/08 — Paxil suicide data should be investigated, Grassley says
June 16/08 — Legal drugs kill far more than illegal, Florida says
June 10/08 — Researchers fail to reveal full drug pay
June 5/08 — Persistent sexual dysfunction after discontinuation of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors
May 29/08 — Psychiatric Medication Awareness Group Condemns government recommendation to scrap drug safety watchdog (PDF–15KB)
May 29/08 — Highly-lauded drug assessment program under attack; (PDF)
May 29/08 — Life saving drug watchdog may be scrapped
Mar. 13/08 — Uncomfortably Numb (Excerpted from A Brief History of Anxiety)
Mar. 9/08 — Marketing Overdose is a short video series about how drug companies unethically promote drugs to the public, doctors and via patient groups.
Mar. 4/08 — Drug firms pressed on secret pill data
Feb. 27/08 — Drug giants warned: tell the truth on medicines
Feb. 26/08 — Anti-depressants' "little effect"
Jan. 31/08 — A Pill for every ill — or an ill for every pill?
Jan. 17/08 — Researchers find a bias toward upbeat findings on antidepressants
Jan. 15/08 — The ABCs of Disease Mongering: An epidemic in 26 letters (new book)
Jan. 8/08 — The Medicated Child: PBS takes on pharma — View video
Jan. 3/08 — Warning: drug ads can make you sick
2007
Dec. 19/07 — Antidepressants and school shootings, suicide, addiction
Dec. 18/07 — Dangerous drugs continue to be prescribed to seniors: CBC report
Dec. 7/07 — Reported suicides—more than 80 percent got psychiatric drugs; well over 50 percent got antidepressants
Dec. 7/07 — Prescription abuse seen in U.S. nursing homes
Dec. 7/07 — Exercise pill hope for depression
Dec. 7/07 — No proof for imbalance of Serotonin in the brain in depression (PDF)
Dec. 7/07 — Older women on tranquillisers are major road risk
Nov. 17/07 — WorstPills.org — Reliable, objective, evidence-based and authoritative guide to prescription drugs (subscription-based) added to our Self-Help Resources.
Nov. 13/07 — Drugs for ADHD "not the answer"
Nov. 7/07 — Antidepressant use during pregnancy increases risk to infants: study
Nov. 7/07 — Antipsychotic drug use and mortality in older adults with dementia
Nov. 7/07 — World experts demand end to child drugging in the US Part I — Part II
Nov. 7/07 — Rethinking models of psychotropic drug action
Nov. 6/07 — Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing disease & pushing drugs
Oct. 7/07 — OxyContin Drug company sued for millions
Aug. 1/07 — Seniors popping pills despite warnings
Aug. 1/07 — Alcohol use and anxiety
July 22/07 — Australia in legal drug abuse crisis
July 17/07 — Class action filed for users of Sleepees
July 13/07 — Drug prescribing for elderly called in calamitous state
July 10/07 — Prescription for Injury—book by Colin Downes-Grainger
July 10/07 — Elderly patients get hooked on sleeping pills
June 13/07 — Benzos & acid reflux
June 3/07 — Elderly doctors & drug-prescribing
May 23/07 — Benzodiazepine Dependency cause for concern in Quebec senior population
May 18/07 — The role of the pharmaceutical companies in the treatment of mental ill health (Dr. Heather Ashton speech)
Mar. 29/07 — Bipolar Treatment comes into question
Apr. 28/07 — U.S. wonders if Zyprexa drug data was accurate
Apr. 26/07 — Pharma greed gone mad?
Apr. 5/07 — Neuroleptics — dangerous in Alzheimer's?
March 21/07 — Prominent Psychiatrist forced to finally concede that psychiatric diagnoses are not based on science
March 14/07 — Sleeping aids may trigger allergic reactions, dangerous behaviour
March 2/07 — Warning issued over drug [Effexor]
Jan. 12/07 — Suicide rates in hospitals "very high"
2006
Dec. 18/06 — Zyprexa sales rep video — a must-see!
Dec. 13/06 — Health Canada issues warning for sleep supplement
Dec. 7/06 — Do SSRI antidepressants lead to an increase in violent behaviour?
Dec. 5/06 — SSRI Experts head to Washington to testify before FDA panel
Sept./06 — Anti-depressants and violence: problcites at the interface of medicine and law
Sept./06 — Anti-depressant drugs linked to increased risk of death for heart patients
Aug. 26/06 — Antidepressants during pregnancy may affect baby
2006 — Strategies for discontinuing long-term Benzodiazepine use
Aug. 8/06 — Some say ending antidepressants daunting
July 11/06 — Financial ties to industry cloud depression study
July/06 — Do anti-depressants cure or create abnormal brain states?
June/06 — Statement by school social worker about psychiatric drugs & children
June 30/06 — STAR*D Wars: The corruption of the NIMH and the failure of anti- depressants
June/06 — SSRI disaster stories
May 13/06 — “Prescribed to Death” wins top award for investigative journalism in Canada
May 8/06 — New pharma ad rules result in more ads
May 18/06 — Users of popular sleep aid report problems at night
May/06 — US: selling to the worried well
May 8/06 — Doctors say drugmakers are "disease-mongering" to boost sales
May 1/06 — Elderly at risk using mood drugs
Mar.-Apr./06 — Trends in prescribing of antipsychotic medications for US children
Spring 2006 — Survey finds drugs often prescribed incorrectly
Mar.23/06 — Sleep deprivation: the great American myth
Feb. 7/06 — Record sales of sleeping pills are causing worries
Jan. 12/06 — Antidepressant madness strikes baseball pitcher Jeff Reardon
2005
Nov. 17/05 — Many kids taking sleeping pills
Nov. 14/05 — "Bitter Pills" do the new anti-depressants work? and are they worth the risk?
Nov. 11/05 — Sedatives risk fears for elderly
Nov. 8/05 — Ads for SSRI antidepressants are misleading, say researchers
Oct. 26/05 — U.S. Alters test policy on psychiatric drugs, FDA won't require 6-month studies
Oct. 20/05 — Big pharma's calling the shots
July 8/05 — Prescribed to death
May/05 — Women and Health Protection releases new paper on SSRIs (PDF)
May/05 — Are medical journals laundering information for pharmaceutical companies?
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Updated: April 22, 2013
