Contents:
3rd Circuit: Taking
Medication Doesn't Eliminate Disability Chronic disorders covered by ADA
$6.7 Million Award for
Woman Disfigured by Drugs
A Dark Side to Prozac?
- The Aftermath Of
Prozac, Zoloft, Luvox, Fen-Phen, & Many Other Serotonergic Drugs
- By Dr. Ann Blake Tracy - Executive Director, International Coalition For
Drug Awareness
Americans
are in dire danger of being hurt from pills Stephen Fried is
an investigative journalist who turned his attention tothe dangers of
prescription drugs
- Anti-depressants' link
to violent acts debated Patients' reactions to medication
vary, experts testify
Anti-depressants reduce
hot flashes
Are Psychiatric Drugs Safe
for Children? The
Washington Post, May 4, 1999:
- ARE WE OVER-MEDICATING
OUR KIDS? McMAN'S DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR WEEKLY (Dec 8, 1999
Vol 1 No 27)
- BEHAVIOR CONTROL A
state urges less use of drugs
Clozapine
Use Linked to up to 2000-Fold Increase in Risk of Myocarditis
Could
it be that antidepressants do little more than placebos?THE BOSTON GLOBE MEDICINE: No prescription for happiness By
Thomas J. Moore, 10/17/99
Curbing
Use of Psychiatric Drugs for Children
The
Dark Side of Modern Medicine Interview with John Robbins
Defusing
Chronic Relapsing Nature of Addiction Clinical Psychiatry News
Aaron Levin, Contributing Writer[Clinical Psychiatry News 27(8):23, 1999. ) 1999
International Medical News Group.]
Dr. Julian Whitaker Speaks Out:
Lethal Shootings - Is Prozac A Prescription for Violence?
Drug
industry group sues state
Exploring
a Dark Side of Depression Remedies
Hearing
to determine if Prozac robber remains hospitalized
Is
it crazy to take insanity defendants off their drugs for trial?
Is
Prozac Driving Wall Street?
- Is Prozac Good for
the Soul? Do antidepressants improve or impair your spiritual
life?
`Kendra's
Law' Wrong Medicine`
L.A.
County May Resume Drug Trials
Lilly
Set Back in Prozac Patent Case
Listening
to Prozac and the backlash
Medical
Journal Cites Misleading Drug Research
THE NEW
YORK TIMES, November 10,1999
METHAMPHETAMINE
ON THE MOVE: PRESS BRIEFING TO HIGHLIGHT DANGERS OF THIS HIGHLY ADDICTIVE DRUG
Mortality
in schizophrenia- Antipsychotic polypharmacy and absence of adjunctive
anticholinergics over the course of a 10-year prospective study
John Waddington et al, Br J Psych, 1998,
Most
Patients Report Troublesome Side Effects, Modest Improvement Using Current
Antidepression Treatments
New
book attacks popular anti-depressant
New
Drugs Being Developed to Treat Mental Illness
NO
PRESCRIPTION FOR HAPPINESS COULD IT BE THAT ANTIDEPRESSANTS DO
LITTLE MORE THAN PLACEBOS?
No sex
please, we're medicated
Novartis
named in two new Ritalin suit
Patients
Won't Take Their Meds? Try Giving Them Free Samples
Pills
for What Ails You Socially
PLACEBOS:
Fooling the Body to Heal Itself
Price
controls would stifle drug research, innovation
Promising New Medications in Development
by Anne Brown and Rebecca Weaver
Prozac
To Fight PMS Under New Name
Psychotherapeutic
Drug Market Experiences Record Growth
Revealed:
the danger of taking Prozac, Drug maker knew 20 years ago of possible link to
suicide Sarah Boseley, Health Correspondent The Guardian (UK
Newspaper) Saturday September 4, 1999
Rising
Cost of Drugs Take a Bigger Share, front page
of
Health Insurance Outlays
Some
antidepressants change rat brain cells
St.
John's Wort extract effective for depression
Survey:
Depressed Patients Dissatisfied With Drugs, MDs
Test
Drugs OK'd for Mentally Ill
- THEY TOLD US IT WAS SAFE
(Africa News Service) Johannesburg (Mail and Guardian, November 5, 1999) -
It was too good to be true. Prozac, taken by 38-million people worldwide, is
not as harmless as we've been led to believe. Disturbing evidence has
emerged, showing that Prozac can push some patients into so agitated a state
of mind that they are a danger not only to themselves, but to others, too.
Tobacco Antagonist
Zeroes in on Ritalin
Too
Much of a Good Thing? Doctor Challenges Drug Manual
Type of
Penicillin Is in Critical Supply
By ABIGAIL ZUGER
UC studies raise doubts about
consent Can delusional person recognize all the risks?
UM gets record research
contract Med school to receive $24 million to develop schizophrenia drugThe Baltimore Sun 9/28/99. By Diana K. Sugg Baltimore Sun Staff
Use of
Certain Antipsychotic Drugs May Increase Risk of Arrhythmia
Writing
May Be on Wall for Ritalin
Working Their Way Back Drugs
and therapy help, but many mentally ill also need social rehab. Here's how it
succeeds
The Yawning Orgasm And
other antidepressant side effects
