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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 will. You may be injected with drugs … [Read more...] about Coercion, Zyprexa and Psychiatry

To me, The Zyprexa Papers reads like a combination between a Stephen King horror tale and a John Grisham legal thriller. I have met the author Jim Gottstein once, and I remember him as an unassuming low-key individual not prone to self-promotion. After reading this book, I now realize what a heroic figure he actually is. Not because he touts himself as heroic but because what … [Read more...] about A Roadmap for Fighting Corporate Giants

On November 28, 2006, attorney Jim Gottstein received a phone call that would change his life. It would propel Gottstein into a legal war against the giant pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, who would retaliate against him for his release of Lilly’s own documents about its drug Zyprexa. A U.S. District Court would rule that Gottstein had conspired to steal these documents, and … [Read more...] about A Legal System for Drug Companies not Patients

Book sales are strange things.  Depending on how you cut the cake, it can take relatively few buys to make a book the number one selling book in a particular category.  It may be that there aren't a huge number of mental health law books and this explains how early orders of the new hardback copy of The Zyprexa Papers made it Amazon's number one seller in this … [Read more...] about The Bestselling Zyprexa Papers

This Review by Maryanne Demasi first appeared in the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics Online December 29, 2020 Harvard-trained lawyer Jim Gottstein is the author of the new book, The Zyprexa Papers. It is a compelling, first-hand account of how a humble attorney from Alaska manages to expose the rot inside one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world. The … [Read more...] about The Zyprexa Papers: Outing drug company corruption

Paul John Scott's review of : Prescription for Sorrow: Antidepressants, Suicide and Violence by Patrick D. Hahn (Samizdat Health. Available in Print or Kindle ) Prozac, arguably the most famous drug of our lifetimes, was never approved for sale. Rather, Prozac when combined with anti-anxiety medication was approved for sale. In an unpromising design that seems so very … [Read more...] about One Story to Rule them all: From Prozac to Abilify

There are quite a few books published about the lack of benefit and harm caused by so-called “anti-depressants.”  The fact that so many people have felt compelled to write such books is interesting in itself.  Prescription for Sorrow, by Patrick Hahn, is simply the best one I have read.  It is the most engaging and readable.  This is aided by victim vignettes of real people … [Read more...] about A Story of Iatrogenic Insanity: Prescription for Sorrow

This review by Kevin Miller was posted on Amazon under the heading The Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction As one who has had the fortune/misfortune of reporting on the “science” behind prescription psychiatric drugs for 20+ years, I was thrilled to find MALCHARIST, the new novel by Paul John Scott. Mr. Scott’s writing is engrossing (I read this book in 24 hours), irritating (his … [Read more...] about Malcharist: A Spellbinding Thriller 2