[Note: The current version of the Skin and Nails Zone works differently than described below.] Free online tool to research and report prescription drug side effects on skin and nails Toronto, Ontario — RxISK.org, the first free independent website for researching and reporting prescription drug side effects, has just added a Skin Zone to highlight and collect data on the … [Read more...] about Your skin on drugs – new tool from RxISK.org
National Post — Poison in healthy doses: MP warns that Canadians blind to dangers of prescription drugs
Canadians are willfully blind to the lethal risks of prescription drugs, which kill people “every day” through side effects, even at proper doses, according to a Conservative MP. “All drugs are poisons,” Terence Young told a packed audience this week at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. “The only difference between a drug and a poison is dosage.” ...David Healy, CEO of … [Read more...] about National Post — Poison in healthy doses: MP warns that Canadians blind to dangers of prescription drugs
Stevie’s Story: Beware Osteoporosis Drugs
Editorial Note: We want any accounts of adverse or interesting events on drugs or new uses for drugs from people on them - or doctors, pharmacists or others trying to manage the effects of drugs. We would be very interested in accounts of what happens when people take RxISK reports to doctors. I thought that my story was a Seroxat story. I thought that I had been duped, once, … [Read more...] about Stevie’s Story: Beware Osteoporosis Drugs
Dr Healy’s interview with Andy Oudman 1290 AM CJBK, London
Andy Oudman (1290 AM CJBK, London ON) interviews Dr. David Healy, author of "Pharmageddon," about an extremely important upcoming panel discussion regarding the risks associated with medications to be held on January 15 in Toronto at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Currently, this event is sold out. The next day, the video should be uploaded at RxISK.org. Dr. Healy points out that … [Read more...] about Dr Healy’s interview with Andy Oudman 1290 AM CJBK, London
Diane and Diana: Carly’s Story
Carly’s story: I was referred to a psychiatrist for adult ADD when I started my first year at university. I made a passing complaint to my aunt, who is also a GP, over the summer about some occasional acne around my period. She suggested that I try Diane-35. I was also taking dexedrine at the time, but had not had any problems with it. I was just fed more medication By the … [Read more...] about Diane and Diana: Carly’s Story
RxISK Forum on Rx drug-induced violence (NYC)
Are common US prescription medications linked to violence? On Friday January 18, 2013 from 2 to 3pm at the Still Mind Zendo* center in New York City, RxISK.org will be hosting a free public discussion about links between school shootings, other violent acts, and common prescription medications with Dr. David Healy, MD, a world-renowned psychiatrist and psychopharmacologist … [Read more...] about RxISK Forum on Rx drug-induced violence (NYC)
The Girl Who Was Not Heard When She Cried Wolf
Crusoe was called to see Lisbeth. The girl - young woman was mute and catatonic by day but after she fell asleep she had nightmares when she wailed piteously, rent her nightdress, walked in her sleep muttering ‘the children, the children’ or other such phrases. It was a similar pattern each night, the parents said. The dreams seemed to repeat. Crusoe came in the evening … [Read more...] about The Girl Who Was Not Heard When She Cried Wolf
WND Education – Psych Meds Linked to 90% of School Shootings
Expert: Psychiatric drugs likely cause of Lanza's extreme violence NEW YORK – From the moment news emerged Friday that a young man had carried out a horrific massacre of elementary-school children, politicians from local city halls to the White House have been restoking the age-old push for more gun control. While guns have been a common denominator in mass slayings at schools … [Read more...] about WND Education – Psych Meds Linked to 90% of School Shootings
The Shipwreck of the Singular
Crusoe’s first appearance was in The Creation of Psychopharmacology, where in recognition of the tensions inherent in medicine between the numerous who enter clinical trials and the single person being treated by a doctor, the book opened with a quote from George Oppen’s Of Being Numerous, in which he notes that: “Crusoe we say was rescued”. Since Oppen wrote these lines, … [Read more...] about The Shipwreck of the Singular
Is your hair on drugs?
[Note: The current version of the Hair Zone works differently than described below.] Bad hair day — could it be your drugs? Free online tool to check prescription drugs effects on hair RxISK.org, the first free independent website for researching and reporting prescription drug side effects, has just added a Hair Zone to both highlight and to collect more data on the links … [Read more...] about Is your hair on drugs?