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Study Finds Over 25% of Antidepressant Prescriptions Given to High-Risk, Long-Term Users

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A new article published in BMC Medicine finds that antidepressant use in two Scottish regions increased 27% between 2012 and 2019. While the occurrence of potential high-risk use decreased slightly between 2012 and 2019 (from 37.9% among adult residents between 2012 and 2019.

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On the Brink of Murder Because of an Antidepressant

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W hile going through a divorce in 2012, award-winning documentary filmmaker Katinka Blackford Newman from London was prescribed escitalopram (Cipralex or Lexapro, from Lundbeck). This is a depression pill, but Katinka was not depressed, only distressed, with sleepless nights, when she needed to leave the family home after a 12-year marriage.

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Irish Open Dialogue Shut Down—Despite Expert Report Stating It Should Be Scaled Up

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Progressive rights-based service The West Cork Open Dialogue service, written about in detail here , was established in 2012, a progressive move at the time, under Dr Pat Bracken , psychiatrist, and co-founder of the Critical Psychiatry Network.

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Conservatorship: The Racket That Ruined My Father’s Last Years

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In 2012 the probate judge, after delaying for 18 months, ignored the Moore Family Trust document and placed not me but an outsider, Angelique Friend, as his conservator and trustee. After the conservator was appointed in 2012, she never allowed my father to leave the state of California, even for a visit. ” It never happened.

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Medical Journals Refuse to Retract Fraudulent Trial Reports That Omitted Suicidal Events in Children

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In 2012, the editor-in-chief of JAACAP , Andrés Martin, wrote to Jureidini: “Following the June 27, 2012 settlement between GlaxoSmithKline and the U.S. Department of Justice, the Journal’s editorial team undertook a thorough evaluation of the article, the legal settlement, and related materials.

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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

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28] They referred to a meta-analysis by Gibbons from 2012. While going through a divorce in 2012, she was prescribed escitalopram (Cipralex or Lexapro, from Lundbeck) even though she was not depressed, only distressed. It is taboo that depression drugs cause suicide and homicide. This taboo kills people.

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Bad Science Revisited: “The Bell Curve” Turns 30

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For example, the title of a 2012 article read, “Most Reported Genetic Associations with General Intelligence Are Probably False Positives.” Because IQ molecular genetic research was at an early stage in 1994, Herrnstein and Murray did not cite any IQ gene (genetic variant) associations or discoveries.

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