2018 Aging and mental health Pharmaceuticals 
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
The screening test recommended by the World Health Organization is so poor that for every 100,000 healthy people screened, 36,000 will get a false diagnosis of depression. The outcome of the US suicide prevention programmes has been the opposite of what was expected. This is a great recipe for drug companies.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
” To be included in the current research, service users had to receive a dementia diagnosis between January 1, 1998, and May 31, 2018, be at least 50 years old when dementia was first diagnosed, and have no prescriptions for antipsychotics in the 365 days prior to their dementia diagnosis. Atypical antipsychotics accounted for 74.7%
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Mad in America
APRIL 16, 2024
As an example, the Danish Board of Health has warned that adding a benzodiazepine to a neuroleptic increases mortality by 50-65%. 23,24 In 2013, I estimated that, in people aged 65 and above, neuroleptics, benzodiazepines or similar, and depression drugs kill 209,000 people annually in the United States. for those aged 70-79.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 24, 2024
noted that it is a myth that mental disorders play a significant role in at least 90% of suicides. [6] 6] In most cases, there is no preexisting mental disorder. However, meta-analyses of the randomised trials have found that depression pills double not only the risk of suicide; they also double suicides, with no age limits. [11]
Mad in America
MARCH 9, 2024
The ART medicines are obtained each month from the Government ART clinic in Bhuj for all residents who are HIV positive, and for those with mental health conditions, the psychiatrist at the Government Mental Hospital in Bhuj prescribes the medications. However, she passed away from childbirth complications at the age of 26.
Mad in America
JANUARY 4, 2025
As such, the scandal now serves as a historical verdict on the ethics of American psychiatry, and by extension, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Pigott and colleagues published articles in 2015 and 2018 on the STAR*D trial, and each time Mad in America reviewed the articles.
Mad in America
JUNE 27, 2024
Given the current level of neuroscientific understanding of causality in the brain and nervous system, it seems pretty much inevitable that exposure to pharmaceutical psychotropics will produce adverse consequences. The prescription of SSRIs (and also SNRIs) to those with milder mental health problems should be avoided.
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