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PSYCHIATRIC FASCISM
For almost 150 years, psychiatry has been masquerading as a medical science and as a branch of medicine.  It is not and never was a science or a type of health care.  Modern psychiatry is driven by unproved empirical assumptions, medical biases, and pseudo-scientific opinions.  There are no scientifically established, independently proven facts in [...]

Dear Sirs/Madam,
 
I have taken the unusual step in copying in both your CEO, Kent Woods and your Head of Pharmacovigilance Risk Management, Sarah Morgan. I have also blind copied interested parties in on this particular request as I feel any response you may give may put their minds at ease that we are being protected [...]

12 RECENT SCHOOL/TEEN SHOOTERS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF
PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS
Resulting in 54 Killed
And 105 Wounded

* Dekalb, Illinois – February 14, 2008: 27-year-old Steven Kazmierczak shot and
killed five people and wounded 16 others before killing himself in a Northern
Illinois University auditorium. According to his girlfriend, he had recently been
taking Prozac, Xanax and Ambien. Toxicology results showed that [...]

“Gardasil had three times the number of Emergency Room visits – more than 5,000. Reports of side effects were up to 30 times higher with Gardasil”
CBS) There are new concerns about Gardasil, the vaccine that prevents a virus that caused cervical cancer. It’s approved for girls as young as nine. And five million have received it [...]

Major Reality Check
When the pain reliever Vioxx was withdrawn from the market last fall after the announcement that it increased patients’ risk of heart attacks and strokes, millions of Americans panicked. The sometimes-sensationalized headlines didn’t help: People wondered, Should I trust my doctor? Could a medication that I thought would help me actually kill me? [...]

Another great article found in Readers Digest.
A doctor blows the whistle on a dangerous new drug that wrongfully received FDA approval.
The well-dressed woman in the waiting room was yellow, recalls John Hanson, MD — a clear sign of jaundice. That was puzzling: One month earlier, in March 2005, Vivienne Wardley (not her real name), 51, [...]

What You Can Do
• Don’t give up on medical research.
“Never before have we had so many scientific advances that need to be evaluated,” says John Gallin, MD, director of the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. But there’s a serious shortage of volunteers to help test the potential breakthroughs in the more [...]

I found this while in the waiting room of a local hospital, last week.  I read the entire thing three times.  It’s a really great article.
It was published in Readers Digest, April 2008. 
Recent headlines have uncovered one shocking lapse after another at the Food and Drug Administration: A popular diabetes drug can sharply increase the [...]

 
The following is a press released by Health Canada.  Ummm….  I am really glad they are trying to improve things and hopefully the big mess they have made with Paxil will be cleared up sometime soon.  Although Health Canada claims they are one of the best drug relators in the world they still took 16 [...]