Mad in America
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
The Devastation of Protracted Withdrawal In 2017, I authored an article highlighting the hundreds of thousands of people reporting severe withdrawal side effects on forums like BenzoBuddies and Surviving Antidepressants. Yet, when it comes to pharmaceutical drugs, we assume they are somehow cleaner simply because theyre prescribed.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 24, 2024
In 2017, suicide experts wrote in the Swedish medical journal that antidepressants, lithium, and clozapine prevent suicides, but several of their references were seriously misleading, and I noted that there is no reliable evidence that any drug can prevent suicide. [5] 5] In 2017, Norwegian Professor Heidi Hjelmeland et al.
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Mad in America
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
The prescribing of depression drugs has increased steadily since 2000, and the age-adjusted suicide rate for the American population has also increased steadily, by 35% from 2000 to 2017. For war veterans, the results have been very similar.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
From The Guardian : “In 2017, the Cherokee Nation became the first tribe to file a lawsuit against opioid manufacturers and distributors for promoting the flow of prescription opioids into its community.
Mad in America
JANUARY 15, 2024
One pharmaceutical journal berated some managed care companies for not paying for Viagra for drug-induced sexual dysfunction. However, I doubt that a pharmaceutical company would market Viagra as a treatment for depression; to do so one would have to diagnose depression as caused by an “insufficient blood supply to the genitals”!
Mad in America
JANUARY 29, 2024
I n a previous chapter I reported data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 11c that suicides for the years 2007 to 2017 increased by 30% while the teen rate (ages 10 to 24) increased by 56%! of the drugs reviewed had two or fewer cases of violence, which is reassuring for most pharmaceuticals.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 2, 2023
135 One should never start psychiatric drug treatment without having a tapering plan, but no one taught doctors how to stop the drugs, whereas they have learned from their professors and the pharmaceutical industry when to start them and always to blame the disease for untoward symptoms, ignoring the troubles they have caused.
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