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Despite Safety Risks, Prescribers Receive Little Guidance of Monitoring Antipsychotic Clozapine

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They conducted a review of current guidelines that met the criteria of being peer-reviewed guidelines published after 2004 in English, Dutch, or French, that were centered on monitoring major adverse effects and included evidence-based recommendations.

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Youth Antipsychotic Use Linked to Increased Risk of Death within Five Years

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The study included Medicaid data on 2,067,507 patients aged 5-24 years old who first started a psychiatric drug between 2004 to 2013. Ray at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and published in JAMA Psychiatry.

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Risks of Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Veterans

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In 2004, in response to Kim Witczak and other surviving families, the FDA began requiring SSRI drugmakers to add a Box Warning on the packaging of all SSRI antidepressants related to suicide risk. Nearly half said they believed they were trapped on the antidepressant drugs they were prescribed.

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“Dad, Something’s Not Right. I Need Help”: Richard Fee on the Dangers of Adderall

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He started college in 2004, so this would have been 2005 or 2006. At the time, I didnt know much about it, but I knew it wasnt good. We were coming off the popularity of Ritalin, and now it was Adderall. Siem: Around 2005 or 2006? I told Richard, Look, this stuff isnt good for you. Its an amphetamine.

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Investigators Who Blew the Whistle On STAR*D Fraud Call for Retraction of Five AJP Articles

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8 RIAT Investigators’ Reply: In 2004, JAMA published an article on completed suicides and severe suicide ideation/attempts in 159,810 depressed patients prescribed an antidepressant. 20 The JAMA 2004 article was highly-cited, and therefore should have been well-known in 2006 by the STAR*D PIs.

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Green Star Mother Demands Answers from VA Secretary

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The following is the letter I sent to the head of the VA: * * * March 11, 2024 Dear Secretary McDonough: Thank you for taking the time to read about the life and death of my son, Cody Camacho, who took his life on November 2, 2021 after close to 20 years of struggling with severe PTSD from his service in Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003-2004.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

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A 2004 study , “Adverse Childhood Experiences and the Risk of Depressive Disorders in Adulthood,” reported that exposure to such traumatic experiences is “associated with increased risk of depressive disorders up to decades after their occurrence”; and that childhood emotional abuse increased risk 2.7 fold for lifetime depressive disorders.