Received a funny email today about Caffeine-related disorders. In the clinician’s handbook for diagnosing mental disorders (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, known as the DSM-IV-TR), caffeine-related disorders are classified under the category of substance-related disorders. DSM-IV-TR specifies four caffeine-related disorders: caffeine intoxication caffeine-induced anxiety disorder caffeine-induced sleep disorder caffeine related disorder not […]
Archive | Psychiatric Abuse
ADHD drugs stunt the growth of children who take them….
Dr. Al Sears, an MD from Florida, reports that: Chances are you know of a child on Ritalin or some other prescription drug for “attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder†(ADHD). But did you know that these drugs can keep children from growing normally? Meanwhile, there are plenty of safe, natural ways to help these children that you […]
Connecticut joins states suing Eli Lily for Zyprexa
My friends at CCHR report: Connecticut is joining at least nine other states suing drug maker Eli Lilly and Co. over the antipsychotic drug Zyprexa. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says Connecticut’s lawsuit seeks to recover more than $190 million that that state’s medical assistance program spent on Zyprexa over more than a decade. The lawsuit […]
Cheyenne Delp – on a psych drug cocktail and dead at 6 years old
Little Cheyenne Delp was first taken by her foster mother (Sherri Mathis) to see a psychiatrist at 5 years of age. She left with prescriptions for three psych drugs for the child. By the time Cheyenne died a year later, apparently strangled to death by her foster mother in 2004, her psychiatrist had her taking […]
Antidepressants Hardly Help – says Time Magazine
Antidepressants Hardly Help according to an article in Time Magazine. I rarely trust any information provided by what is usually the central mouthpiece for Big Pharma, and the trumpet of the AMA and APA, but in this case they seem to have let some actual science slip through in their reporting. Prozac, Effexor, Serzone, Paxil […]
Risperdal and Seroquel makers sued by Montana
The manufacturers of Risperdal and Seroquel, widely-prescribed anti-psychotic drugs, have been sued by the Montana Attorney General for injury or deaths of Montanans. I hope more state Attorneys General will get on this particular band-wagon. These drug companies have very deep pockets (billions of dollars of profits per year) and are using extremely aggressive marketing […]
Psychology Making our Kids into Walking Targets
I received a press release today concerning a new book by Beverly Eakman, a whistle-blower working with CCHR, working to expose to the light how psychology has corrupted the American educational system. She says: “I take issue with teaching methodologies whose primary purpose is to target the emotions rather than challenge the intellect.” Walking Targets […]
Sound off on TV Drug Ads
Here’s a drug ad petition to make the FDA require that drug ads on TV have a toll-free number so that people can call in and report problems they are having with those drugs being over-advertised, and requiring more of a detailed disclosure of the side effects that the drugs have, and the prevalence of […]
I’d be mad if the attacks were working…
Who’s funding this attack, anyway?
New Tom Cruise Bio
I’ve always admired Tom Cruise. Even the infamous couch-jumping episode made me think, “Wow – to be that excited about falling in love — I remember that feeling!”, and “More power to him!” In every photo of Katie Holmes that I have seen, she looks radiantly happy and in love. So now there’s a new […]