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Is Recovery from Medication Possible?
January 14, 2022 | 16 Comments

In response to recent posts, especially A Time for PSSD, Laurie Oakley got in touch with the following thoughts.  Laurie has had a series of six posts on Pharmaceutical Rape on davidhealy.org starting in February 2015 but mostly from early January 2016.  These outline her own difficulties recovering from medication induced injury and the equal […]

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No sex please (we're on antidepressants)
Sex Please but We Are on Antidepressants
January 5, 2022 | 3 Comments

This anonymous post stemmed from a RxISK report, which came in following A Time for PSSD last week. If anyone else, female or male, has started an antidepressant before or early in puberty with things not working quite as a result – anything from being asexual through to intrusive uncontrollable orgasms – you can file […]

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A Time for Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction?
December 28, 2021 | 13 Comments

This post has been put together by L who in the last few years has been an inspiration to many people suffering the ill-effects of a number of different drugs.  Like mythical heroines she has many different aliases.  When it comes to the harms done to us, behind heroes like Zorro or the Scarlet Pimpernel, […]

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Diagnostic Criteria for Enduring Sexual Dysfunction
December 19, 2021 | 10 Comments

Background We noticed that a lack of diagnostic criteria was increasingly being mentioned in the published literature on post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD). The condition was being described as difficult to diagnose because there was no commonly accepted definition. At the same time, a number of new websites and online discussions were appearing, many of which […]

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The Handmaid’s Vaccine
December 9, 2021 | 28 Comments

This post is a companion to Where Does the Misinformation Come From? on DH.org, which gives the slides and text of a lecture on Monday evening. Norman Fenton asked me to give the talk to a group that is neither pro nor anti vaccines or drugs but were all interested in how we go about […]

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There was a Young Woman who Swallowed a Lie
November 29, 2021 | 49 Comments

This post is the partner of The Eclipse of Health Care.  See also Warning re Health. Before reading (and after finishing) it’s worth listening to Peter Seeger’s There was a Young Woman. Mandating Unproven Technologies Governments are considering mandating, or already have mandated an unproven technology, against a background of vaccine approval and pharmacovigilance processes […]

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Warning re Health
November 28, 2021 | 6 Comments

This is a warning about two linked posts – with two more next week. The Eclipse of Health Care features on davidhealy.org. It has a partner There was a Young Woman who Swallowed a Lie on RxISK.org These were combined in one document – Mandating Unproven Technologies, which along with a set of appendices was […]

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Mentally Hijacked by Doxycycline
November 22, 2021 | 14 Comments

There are several previous posts on this topic – Doxycycline causes Suicide and Suicide is Painless  and becoming suicidal on an antibiotic.  None of them give as compelling a picture of what the problem is like from the inside as this letter that came to RxISK some months ago. A Life in Good Shape I […]

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Albert’s Algorithm: Be Very Afraid
November 8, 2021 | 58 Comments

Last week in Washington a meeting was convened to look at Vaccine Harms – the harms suffered post-vaccine by some pro-vaccine people, some so much pro that they enrolled for vaccine clinical trials. See Mandated Harms. The meeting heard testimony from ten people, eight of whom I had interviewed, all of whom in my opinion […]

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Mandated Harms: The Day of the Dead
November 2, 2021 | 45 Comments

Tens of thousands of  people have been killed or badly injured by Covid vaccines.  I have had the privilege to meet and assess over ten of the injured in the last two weeks, thanks to Bri Dressen. On November 2, the Day of the Dead, in the Capitol, Bri, along with Senator Ron Johnson, and […]

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The Nature and Meaning of Psychiatry
October 25, 2021 | 17 Comments

This post links intimately with The Standardization of Psychiatry – you might even call it A Necessary Shadow.  Standardization was a lecture on psychiatry given in the Royal Society of Medicine on October 5.  To find out what’s going on you need to read the Back Story to Standardization.  Back in 2013, I was asked […]

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Prescribed Harms and Vaccine Hesitancy
October 18, 2021 | 47 Comments

In 2015, there was a series of posts on davidhealy.org Pharmaceutical Rape, Pharmaceutical Rape is not a Metaphor, Pharmaceutical Rape: Cast of Characters, Pharmaceutical Rape: The Good Patient, Pharmaceutical Rape: Doctors Still Know Best, Pharmaceutical Rape: Discrimination, Pharmaceutical Rape: Ending our Tolerance. The following year GlaxoSmithKline lawyers deposed me in the Dolin case, spending hours […]

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Regula(to)r Woman or Mother: Wright as Raine
October 11, 2021 | 8 Comments

This post needs to be read in conjunction with Companies and Mothers on davidhealy.org. Most people think pharmaceutical companies are evil and regulators are on our side.  Both are intensely bureaucratic.  They hide behind procedures.  Judge for yourself which has the most humanity. June Raine CEO, MHRA 10 South Colonnade Canary Wharf  London E14 4PU […]

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Love in a Time of Covid
October 4, 2021 | 2 Comments

President Joseph E Biden The White House Washington D.C September 28th 2021 Dear Dr Joe We have a lot in common – Irish, Catholic backgrounds and perhaps one or two other bits mixed in, and a concern for those injured or killed in a War. Your addition of the role of doctor to your portfolio […]

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Mandates for Vaccines
September 26, 2021 | 42 Comments

Vaccine mandates feature prominently in the news at the moment. These are contentious for some health personnel, nurses and doctors among others, who are refusing to be vaccinated and willing to lose jobs if need be. France and the United States, countries not typically associated with an authoritarian approach, have made Covid vaccines compulsory. Some […]

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Cipro will do the Trick: FDA, FAD and You
September 20, 2021 | 20 Comments

There are many RxISK posts on antibiotics – look under antibiotics – with  6 or so dealing with Fluoroquinolones from the original Flox-Tox to Fluoroquinolones: Not so Carte Blanche. Miriam Knight has written this one.  Doctor: “I’ll give you an antibiotic to clear that up”. Me: “Thanks very much”. I imagine just about everyone reading […]

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Mind Softens Warning about Sexual Side Effects of Antidepressants
September 13, 2021 | 11 Comments

Mind is a mental health charity based in England and Wales. For several years, their information on antidepressants has included a warning that sexual side effects may continue after stopping an SSRI or SNRI – Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD). We recently contacted Mind after noticing a change to the wording. See the emails below. […]

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A Birth to Announce
September 6, 2021 | 3 Comments

Samizdat is proud to announce the imminent birth of El Naufragio de lo Singular – a transformation into Spanish of Shipwreck of the Singular.  The birth will be before the end of September. As the expectant parents wait – they invite you this post as the equivalent of a baby shower party. Baby showers may […]

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From The Little Mermaid to Buffy the Vampire Slayer
August 22, 2021 | 11 Comments

This post was triggered by the reactions of women to recent posts here and here.  It has a partner in Escape from a Prescription Drug Maze.  It fits with a relaunch of the RxISK Facebook Page, where the theme of how do we stop ourselves being silenced is one that will be developed. Tracey whose […]

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Once We Were Warriors Tackling Prescription Drugs
August 16, 2021 | 6 Comments

The title of this echoes We Were Warriors but also Once Were Warriors. The post dovetails with What’s a Life Worth, Morgan vs Morgan, and next weeks Escaping the Prescription Drug Maze. All will be on the Politics of Care Forum. The post copies a letter sent to J Mercer MP last week, with images […]

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What’s a life worth? Is anyone listening?
August 9, 2021 | 19 Comments

This post is by Tracey G.  Tracey approached me and as you’ll see others in October 2020 for materials on antidepressants to give her Member of Parliament, Johnny Mercer.  She had been in touch in 2018 – “lost in the world of not being taken seriously or believed with regards to a possible protracted withdrawal”.  […]

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What Happened to Britney Spears can Happen to You
August 2, 2021 | 5 Comments

Britney Spears has eloquently put an issue on the plate for all of us – listen Here – an issue that can affect all of us. Jim Gottstein has devoted a lifetime to grappling with this issue and recently wrote The Zyprexa Papers a book that features Bill Bigley, who was in a very similar […]

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Insomnia the Royal Road to Pills and Nightmares
July 26, 2021 | 16 Comments

This post links to Bob Fiddaman’s Forty Winks last week.  Insomnia is one of our all time biggest problems. We all need Kind Nature’s Chief Restorer to knit up the ravelled sleeve of care.  There is all sorts of health advice out there about how you owe it to yourself to get a good nights […]

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Forty Winks: Insomnia and Antidepressants
July 19, 2021 | 13 Comments

This post is by Bob Fiddaman. The phrase “forty winks” can be traced back to Dr. William Kitchiner’s 1821 self-help guide, The Art of Invigorating and Prolonging Life. The title is ironic given many users of antidepressants really don’t find that their medication invigorates or, indeed prolongs their lives, although many will argue that they prolong […]

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A Public Service or A Lethal Scam?
July 8, 2021 | 19 Comments

RxISK was emailed about a post on SSRI Stories recently.  Julie Wood runs SSRI stories, which features newspaper or related public domain material about suicides, homicides or other events linked to SSRI or other psychotropic drug intake. The email read as follows: Your using an article about my family members suicide as a propaganda piece and […]

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Clinical Trial Fraud
June 28, 2021 | 13 Comments

This is part two of Johanna Ryan’s posts on Ghosts in the Clinical Trial Machine or Clinical Trial Fraud.  Last weeks post reported on how doctors in three states have been convicted of handing in fake clinical-trial results from fake patients.  This week we’ll examine how small-time crooks like these ended up doing world-class medical […]

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Ghosts in the Clinical Trial Machine
June 21, 2021 | 17 Comments

This is the first part of a two part series on clinical trial fraud from Johanna Ryan, with part 2 next week.  Jo is RxISK’s clinical trial and shoddy clinical practice sleuth – see The Maintenance Man.   Recently the U.S. Department of Justice called attention to a small but worrisome crime wave.  Health care fraud […]

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The Insomnia Diaries
June 14, 2021 | 18 Comments

Insomnia is a huge problem.  Insomnia triggered by the drugs supposed to treat it is another huge problem.  A RxISK post featuring enduring sleep difficulties after antidepressants has been very heavily accessed and commented on. Miranda Levy puts all three sleep problems in the frame in a way that all too many will recognize.  Eight […]

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Antidepressants and Dental Problems
June 6, 2021 | 8 Comments

The issue of dental problems linked to medications has previously been discussed on the blog. “After the rot sets in” told the story of someone on the antipsychotic olanzapine who developed crumbling and rotting teeth. “Can antidepressants make you less attractive” touched upon dental problems linked to antidepressants. “Gray Hair, Rotting Teeth, Semi-Blind and Demented” […]

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Coercion, Zyprexa and Psychiatry
June 4, 2021 | 4 Comments

Imagine this. Someone in your life finds you inordinately eccentric, annoying or alarming, and decides you have a “mental illness,” whatever that is. Soon, you are being apprehended, sometimes violently, and locked up on a psych ward, despite your clear statements that you do not agree to being detained or to being medicated against your […]

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