The RxISK Prize campaign has now had over $10,000 from 51 donations coming from 48 donors in 12 different countries. People from Korea to Argentina are engaging with the issue. We will give more details later in the week. It seems clear that Adverse Events - Drug Wrecks - are a Global Disorder, the greatest single source of morbidity and mortality on the planet but few apart … [Read more...] about RxISK Prize: Relationships
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RxISK Prize: No Nos
The RxISK Prize throws up one surprise after another. I would have thought as organizations that save lives and pillars of the economy, it should be relatively easy to contact a pharmaceutical company. It isn't. I have lots of contacts in organizations that liaise with pharma and used to have many contacts in pharma but it's been impossible to get a list of how to contact … [Read more...] about RxISK Prize: No Nos
RxISK Prize: The Golden Rule
This post follows Launching and How You Can Help which are also now on our Prize page on the Main Menu. Launching the RxISK Prize has been eye opening. Everyone who has donated or will donate will hopefully get some sense of this. If you're not getting it, you need to remember this Prize is yours not ours. Those donating money and those donating sweat own what is happening … [Read more...] about RxISK Prize: The Golden Rule
RxISK Prize: How you can help
As will be clear from some of the helpful comments on the first post about a RxISK Prize, you are going to have to work with us to make this work. Your input can take several forms. The greatest need The biggest block to making the Prize work is the same block everyone suffering from the problem faces - which is that despite being about sex, being horrific, and probably … [Read more...] about RxISK Prize: How you can help
Launching the RxISK Prize
This Prize is part of a two-pronged attack on the unwillingness of the medical and regulatory establishments to listen to people with adverse events in general - not just the sexual dysfunctions mentioned here. The second front in the attack will be unveiled in a few weeks' time. The problem The idea for a RxISK Prize began with our involvement with sufferers from Post-SSRI … [Read more...] about Launching the RxISK Prize
After the Rot Sets In: Teeth on Treatment
Editorial Note: In the midst of recent posts about SSRIs and homicide and other events, there has been a continuing input of reports of changes in hair on drugs or skin and this one on teeth. All of these can have an impact on confidence but there is another worry - the treatment is causing obvious and undeniable changes in something that can be seen; what are they … [Read more...] about After the Rot Sets In: Teeth on Treatment
Prescription for Murder ABCD
If you look at the adverse events section of the sertraline - Zoloft - label you will see in small print that sertraline has been linked to psychosis, hallucinations and aggressive reactions. Its there in small print. These links have been there since the mid-1990s. Vanishingly few doctors understand what is going on here. They see a label saying something … [Read more...] about Prescription for Murder ABCD
Prescription for Murder
Editorial: This evening a Panorama program aired on the issue of antidepressants and violence. The driving forces behind this were Andy Bell and Shelley Jofre, prompted in the first instance by Katinka Newman. The story is to my mind compelling. There have been considerable efforts to cloud the picture - see Honey I Shrunk the Shrinks on DH. Prescription for Murder was … [Read more...] about Prescription for Murder
Withdrawal & PSSD: Terminal Diagnoses?
There has been something of a hiatus on posts on DH and RxISK in recent weeks. There are a few reasons - one of them outlined here and one to come next week. Part of the problem has been knowing what to say to people with PSSD and severe withdrawal. I have been swamped with emails that are terribly difficult to answer. It would be good to get input from readers on this … [Read more...] about Withdrawal & PSSD: Terminal Diagnoses?
Malignant Alienation
Gaming is becoming one of the biggest areas of human activity on the planet - bigger than movie-making, newspapers and most other media. Its power to shape the way we view things is clearly huge and likely to increase with Virtual Reality. Some weeks ago, a group released a new Escape from the Asylum game. They ran into a furore of criticism - they were playing to … [Read more...] about Malignant Alienation